Rumana is Founder and CEO of MD Huque. A Professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka, she specialises in health systems and health economics. Areas of special focus include health care financing, resource allocation and budgeting, and economic evaluation.

Rumana has wide experience of working with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh, local NGOs and international donor agencies since 2002. She worked as a health financing and costing consultant in Sector Strategic Investment Plan (SIP) development process for the 4th health sector programme. She was the member of Independent Review Team of Annual Programme Review (APR), 2013 and 2019 on SWAp financing and financial management.

Rumana was the member in the Technical Working Group of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh to develop a Health care Financing strategy for Bangladesh. She has worked as a Principal Investigator in a number of research projects with University of Leeds, UK and University of York, UK. Rumana has an MA in Health Management, Policy and Planning and a PhD in Health Economics from University of Leeds, UK.