Dr Syeda Zakia Hossain is a Health Sociologist and a Demographer, and an expert in women’s health. She holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. She is a recipient of AusAID and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Dr Hossain has completed her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has worked extensively on women’s health and wellbeing. Her major research and teaching is in the areas of Health Sociology, Health and globalisation, International Health and Chronic diseases, research methods and statistics. She specialises on reproductive health, teenage pregnancy, chronic diseases, health inequalities, migrant women’s health and wellbeing, cross-cultural issues, and ageing in South Asian countries. Dr Hossain has been serving as an Executive editor of the Journal of Community Medicine and Health Education.