Public Policy

Meet a Retriever—Ridwan Islam Sifat, international doctoral student in public policy

Sep 26, 2024 • By Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque

Meet Ridwan Islam Sifat, an M.P.P. graduate student and doctoral student at UMBC’s School of Public Policy researching healthcare disparities among intersex individuals in the United States. Sifat joined UMBC as an international student after earning both a B.S. and M.S. in development studies from The Bangladesh University of Professionals where he studied the social exclusion of Hijra (Third Gender) people in Bangladesh, examining the effects of government policies and healthcare access.