Her research interest is Globalization, Gender, Violence Against Women, and Health. She obtained her Masters in Medical Demography from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Ph.d in Sociology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her current research explores how the global economy and unequal power relations between men and women create a context where domestic violence continues to be a regular phenomenon in many women’s lives. In another project she is exploring factors associated with attitude towards wife beating and its prevention among Bangladeshi Men. For this research she is using data from Demographic Health Survey Data 2007.