Purabi Basu (born 21 September 1949[1]) is a Bangladeshi short-story writer, pharmacologist and activist.

[3] As of 2005, she has been working as a senior executive at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a drug company based in New York.

She then earned her master's degree in biochemistry from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1972 and Ph.D. from University of Missouri in nutrition in 1976.

[4] Basu worked as a director of the health, nutrition and population division at BRAC.

[4] Basu is married to Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Literary Award winning short-story writer Jyoti Prakash Dutta.