Nahid Rezwana
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PhD Research:
Disasters and access to healthcare in the coastal region of Bangladesh: a gendered analysis
his research focused on the gender-specific health impacts of cyclones, and the factors shaping accessibility to healthcare in disasters. It also investigates current disaster plans and policies for pre-and post-disaster healthcare provision, and to what extent they account for gender. The study is situated in Barguna, Bangladesh, highly vulnerable to cyclones due to its remote coastal location, poor socio-economic conditions and transport, and insufficient healthcare provision.
Qualitative research methodology was followed in an aim to capture local people’s (especially women’s) views and experiences more effectively from the disaster prone regions. This research found a number of determinants increased the suffering of female victims of Cyclone Sidr and Cyclone Mahasen in Barguna, among all gender and its relation with social attitude, norms and culture are the most significant. Women’s healthcare gets less priority and gets delayed despite women facing more health problems. However, prevailing disaster management plans consider ‘women’ without the context of gender relations, which raises serious questions about the successful implementation of disaster plans. The thesis recommends consideration of deeply rooted social determinants, and gender-sensitive disaster management plans that focus on local culture, society and economic conditions. In this way, more effective implementation of disaster management plans may establish equality in healthcare access and reduce women’s vulnerability to future cyclones.
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Publications from CMMF funded research
Book
01. Rezwana, N. and Pain, R. (2023). Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival, The Routledge, Taylor & Francis Groups, UK.
02. Rezwana, N. (2018). Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh, The Routledge, Taylor & Francis Groups, UK.
Book Chapter
03. Rachel Pain, R., Rezwana, N. and Sahdan, Z. (2020). ”Trauma, Gender and Space: Insights from Bangladesh, Malaysia and the UK” In Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, and Joseli Maria Silva (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, Routledge, UK
Article
04. Rezwana, N., & Pain, R. (2021). Gender‐based violence before, during and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters. Disasters 45(4):741-761.
Seminar and Conference (CMMF funded research)
Seminar
Title: Gender, Disaster and Climate Change in Bangladesh
Date: 20 June 2019
Organized by: International Gender Studies Centre at LMH Seminar Series Trinity2019, University of Oxford, UK.
Book Seminar
Title: Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival
Date: 18 April 2023
Organized by: Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, UK
Conference
Title: Surviving violence, from coping to thriving
Date: 19 & 20 April, 2023
Organized by Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK
Presentation: POST-EARTHQUAKE HOUSING: Owner driven reconstruction in AJK 2005 – 2015; Sharing the fieldwork result