HEAT
A World Bank-funded nationwide study of student mental health in Bangladesh
HEAT is a World Bank-funded, nationwide mixed-methods project assessing the mental health of tertiary-level students in Bangladesh and identifying technological solutions. I have worked on it as a Research Assistant at DIAL since January 2026.
My role
- Screening and shortlisting participants with the PSS and PHQ-9 instruments for physiological stress monitoring
- Mixed-methods data collection and analysis
- Co-designing AI-driven interventions
Output: a co-authored paper, “My Mind Is a Combination of My Body, My Money, and My Study”: Contextualizing Mental Health Support Ecologies for Tertiary Students in Bangladesh, is under review at ACM CHI 2027.