Khaleda graduated from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is a founding member for the global charity, Refugee Crisis Foundation. She has designed and delivered quality health care programmes in emergency humanitarian settings for refugees in France, Greece, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Since 2018, she has been leading the oral healthcare program in the world’s largest refugee camp, the Kutupalong camp, in Bangladesh which has a population of nearly a million Rohingya refugees.
Her vision is to raise awareness of the oral health needs of refugees and reduce the burden of disease through effective oral health promotion. Khaleda has a keen interest in public health and research. She has undertaken projects in the refugee camps to assess the oral health needs of refugees and its impact on their quality of life.