Afroza earned her Bachelor (Honours) and Masters in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. She earned her second MA degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Manitoba. Afroza’s PhD. research interest is in exploring the interrelationship between water insecurity and maternal wellbeing in partnership with Six Nations of the Grand River.

Afroza’s areas of interest are socio-cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, health and wellbeing, Indigenous Knowledge, and ethnography.