In 2012, Abid founded Health and Education for All (HAEFA), a nonprofit through which he and his team give free health care to the Rohingya refugees.Since 2017, they see on average 7,000 Rohingya ...

Dr Abid graduated from Dhaka Medical College, and received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University in Japan. He later did a fellowship from Harvard Medical School in 2001.