Global Initiatives

The Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases in Bangladesh is a Centre of Excellence in the UnitedHealth Group Global Chronic Disease Initiative. This Centre of Excellence now receives funding from:

• The UnitedHealth Group
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)  

ICDDR,B, BRAC, JHSPH and IDS gratefully acknowledge the support and partnership of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and of UnitedHealth Group, especially Dr Richard SW Smith, Executive Director of the UnitedHealth Group Global Chronic Disease Initiative and Dr Elizabeth G. Nabel, former Director of NHLBI.

About the funders:

The UnitedHealth Group

The UnitedHealth Group is one of the world’s largest health and wellbeing companies. It has started a Chronic Disease Initiative to create, fund, and partner with centres in low and middle income countries to counter the pandemic of chronic disease sweeping through those countries. There are centres in China, Bangladesh, India (two, one partnered with Pakistan), South Africa/Tanzania, Tunisia, Central America, and the US Mexico Border. The initiative is also working to raise the international profile of chronic disease in partnership with the Oxford Health Alliance.

For more information visit:

http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/main/default.aspx

NHLBI

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) provides global leadership for a research, training, and education program to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.

The NHLBI stimulates basic discoveries about the causes of disease, enables the translation of basic discoveries into clinical practice, fosters training and mentoring of emerging scientists and physicians, and communicates research advances to the public. It creates and supports a robust, collaborative research infrastructure in partnership with private and public organizations, including academic institutions, industry, and other government agencies. The Institute collaborates with patients, families, health care professionals, scientists, professional societies, patient advocacy groups, community organizations, and the media to promote the application of research results and leverage resources to address public health needs. The NHLBI also collaborates with international organizations to help reduce the burden of heart, lung, and blood diseases worldwide.

For more information on NHLBI visit:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/

Centres of Excellence:

To help combat chronic diseases in developing countries, the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative and the NHLBI support a global network of collaborating Centers of Excellence. Each center includes a research institution in a developing country paired with at least one partner academic institution in a developed country. These Centers of Excellence are developing infrastructures for research and training to enhance their capacity to conduct population-based or clinical research to monitor, prevent, or control chronic diseases, with a focus on cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.

Information on all of the UnitedHealth and the NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence are available on the NHLBI Global Health Initiative Website www.globalhealth.nhlbi.nih.gov

To watch the film titled “Helping Reduce the Burden of Global Chronic Disease” broadcast by the Global Health TV on these Centres of Excellence with a special focus on the Bangladesh CoE, the Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases in Bangladesh, please visit http://globalhealthtv.com/conference_tv/v/helping_reduce_the_burden_of_global_chronic_disease/
 
Other Centres of Excellence in the UnitedHealth and NHLBI collaborating network are lead by the following institutions:

China

• The George Institute for International Health
• Peking University in Beijing China
• The University of Sydney
• The University of Queensland
• Imperial College London   
• Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA

South Africa-Tanzania

• University of Cape Town Department of Medicine (DM UCT)
• Hindu Mandal Hospital and Mwanza Regional Health Authority, Tanzania
• Harvard University
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Harvard School of Public Health
• South African Medical Research Council (MRC)
• MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine
• University of Stellenbosch’s (US) Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care
• University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) School of Public Health

Central America

• Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama – INCAP
• Rand Corporation
• John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Harvard School of Public Health – Department of Nutrition

 US-Mexico Border

• Pan American Health Organization,
• Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Escuela de Medicina
• International Community Foundation
• The Whittier Institute for Diabetes Prevention
• U.S-Mexico Border Health Commission, California and Baja California Outreach Offices

India (New Delhi) and Pakistan

• Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, India
• Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Chennai, India
• The Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi, Pakistan
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

India (Bangalore)

• Fortis Escorts Hospital – Jaipur
• Mahatma Gandi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram
• Rahjah Muthian Medical College & Hospital, Annamalainagar
• St, John’s Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore
• Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

 Tunisia

• Department of Epidemiology, University Hospital Farhat Hached, Sousse, Tunisia
• National Public Health Institute of Finland KTL, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

 Argentina

• South American Center for Cardiovascular Health (SACECH), Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires
• Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

 Kenya  

• Moi University, School of Medicine, Eldoret
• Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Peru    

• Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima
• Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA