About

Dr Tasnim Jara

Entrepreneur, Doctor and Science Communicator

I'm the Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at Shohay Health, a digital health company empowering people to live healthier lives through innovative solutions.

I create evidence-based short videos on health, which have clocked over 1 billion minutes of watch time and gained more than 9 million followers. Recognized as a 'Vaccine Luminary' by the UK government, my work has been featured on major media outlets such as BBC, ITV, Sky News, and Financial Times.

With a background in evidence-based healthcare from the University of Oxford, I'm currently an internal medicine resident at Cambridge University Hospitals and a Clinical Supervisor at the University of Cambridge. I am also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

I have over half a decade of experience practicing medicine in both world-leading hospitals and low-resource settings in the UK and Bangladesh. My research has been published in top-ranked international journal, and I currently serve on the Institutional Review Board at SAJIDA Foundation and as a Member of an Advisory Steering Committee at BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University.

I earned a Master of Science degree in Evidence-Based Health Care from the University of Oxford with distinction and an MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College.