{"id":7815,"date":"2026-07-28T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/?post_type=person&#038;p=7815"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:48:29","slug":"afrin-mehtaj","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/person\/afrin-mehtaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrin Mehtaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-justify\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Afrin Mehtaj is a doctoral candidate and graduate teaching assistant specializing in medical anthropology at the University of Central Florida. She received Bachelor\u2019s in 2022 and Master\u2019s in 2023 from the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka. Her master\u2019s thesis focused on the health-seeking process during COVID-19 and its aftereffects on health.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text-justify\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Afrin is working under the advisement of Dr. Melina Sherman. Her doctoral research examines socio-cultural and structural factors behind widespread and non-prescribed use of painkillers among Bangladeshi people. Her work contributes to medical anthropology and cultural anthropology by informing policies on global health interventions for safe medication practices in lower and middle-income countries.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-justify\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Before enrolling at UCF, Afrin received professional research experience at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and teaching experience at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text-justify\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afrin Mehtaj is a doctoral candidate and graduate teaching assistant specializing in medical anthropology at the University of Central Florida. She received Bachelor\u2019s in 2022 and Master\u2019s in 2023 from the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka. Her master\u2019s thesis focused on the health-seeking process during COVID-19 and its aftereffects on health.\u00a0\u00a0 Afrin is working [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":7816,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_people_group":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"people_group":[52],"class_list":["post-7815","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-phd-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/7815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/7815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7819,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/7815\/revisions\/7819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7815"},{"taxonomy":"people_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_group?post=7815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}