Bawi is a graduate research assistant at Brandeis University, and previously an assistant director in Myanmar’s Ministry of Health and Sport where he works to monitor Myanmar’s National Health Plan and improve the distribution of health facilities.

A general practitioner, assistant surgeon by training and a Fulbright scholar, Bawi is passionate about inequalities in the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, an interest fostered from living in Chin State where health status indicators are among the worst in the country.

Limited resources reach ethnic minority and rural areas where more than 70 percent of the country’s population resides and the majority of poor and vulnerable people have limited or no access to health services.

Bawi is a member of the Myanmar National Health Policy Re-formulating Core Group.