Emeritus Professor J. Patrick Vaughan, CBE (Chair of BRAC UK’s Board of Trustees) has had a long career in international public health and epidemiology, including:
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1987-1998).
Director, Public Health Sciences Division and Acting-Director International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Oct 1995 - June 1998).

Doctor of Medicine, with postgraduate professional and research qualifications in clinical and tropical medicine, and in epidemiology and public health.
Main interests: International health policies and health system reforms; Reproductive, sexual and child health; Communicable and chronic disease epidemiology, prevention and control. 

Rehana A. Murshed (BRAC UK Board member)  worked with BRAC in Bangladesh for eight years. She is now the Manager for Families with SureStart, at Tower Hamlets Council in East London and has a wealth of experience working with women and children. She has a particular interest in developing a women’s health volunteers programme in East London, adapting the successful BRAC approach.

 
Murad Qureshi (BRAC UK Board Member) is a London Assembly Member elected in June 2004. Before becoming an Assembly Member, Murad worked in Housing and Regeneration for 15 years. His biggest achievement during this time was to help establish Ethnic Housing Associations in the East End in response to their chronic housing needs. Murad was elected a member of Westminster Council in 1998.
Murad is an avid sports fan, with particular interest in football and cricket, as he still continues to play for local pub teams. Not surprisingly he is keen on London’s 2012 Olympic effort.  

 
Sandra Kabir (Executive Director and Secretary to the Board of BRAC UK). 
She has worked in development in various capacities since 1976 with donor agencies, international and national NGOs. She has worked predominantly in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s development. She was awarded the international STIMEZO Prize in 1988 for her contribution to making abortion safe worldwide. Sandra established the Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition in 1979 and played a major role in the creation of EL TALLER (a global NGO movement), among other achievements. Sandra was an elected Councillor of the London Borough of Brent till May 2006.