American Professor of Bangladeshi descent. Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa) have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

American Professor of Bangladeshi descent has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa). He is one of 211 nominees for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

Professor Dr. Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the United States. Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa) have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jean-Philippe Belleau, a professor of anthropology at Boston University in Massachusetts, confirmed the news.

Among the 211 people nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Abid is one.

Dr. Abid is a graduate of Dhaka Medical College and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Japan. He later completed a fellowship from Harvard Medical School in 2001. He is also an executive member of the Brown Global Health Initiative.

His non-profit organization Haifa is providing free healthcare to the underprivileged in Bangladesh. In the last 3 years, this organization has provided free medical services to about 30,000 garment workers.

Cervical cancer screening and treatment for about 9,000 disadvantaged women and garment workers and free health care for more than 1,500 people in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

The agency is currently training two Rohingya refugee camps in the prevention of corona infection.

After the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013. Abid founded Haifa to provide healthcare to garment workers across the country. At that time, Dr. Harvard Medical School. Along with Rosemary Dudar, she provided free healthcare to garment workers at three factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sreepur.

Dr. Abid does not receive any salary or reward for his work from his organization.

According to the Nobel Prize website, the winner will be announced in October from among the nominees for the 2020 prize.

He was the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank.