Partners

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ( ICDDR,B)

ICDDR,B  is an international health research institution located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. With the changing trend in the world scenario in health and population over the years, ICDDR,B has expanded its activities to address some of the most critical global health needs. In collaboration with partners from academic and research institutions throughout the world, the Centre conducts research, training and extension activities as well as programme-based activities. ICDDR,B is the secretariat of the Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases in Bangladesh programme.

ICDDR,B is leading the activities for achieving the goals of assessment of current burden of chronic disease in Bangladesh and policy and capacity formulation in Bangladesh.

BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh

BRAC works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps. With multifaceted development interventions, BRAC strives to bring about positive changes in the quality of life of the poor people of Bangladesh. Headquartered at Mohakhali in Dhaka, BRAC works to combat poverty in 70,000 villages and 2000 slums in Bangladesh, and reaches three quarters of the entire population with an integrated package of services for rural and urban communities. Being international, BRAC is the largest southern NGO that reaches more than 110 million people with its development interventions in Asia and Africa. To contact BRAC, please click here.

BRAC is leading to translating knowledge into action through scaling up of intervention on chronic diseases.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,  (JHSPH) is dedicated to the education of a diverse group of research scientists and public health professionals, a process inseparably linked to the discovery and application of new knowledge, and through these activities, to the improvement of health and prevention of disease and disability around the world. For further details and contacts, please click here.

JHSPH is leading on the works on Synthesis of existing knowledge of gaps in chronic disease in South Asia.

Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is an international centre of excellence in multidisciplinary research, teaching, communications, capacity building and practice of international development. It is based at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. In all its work, IDS aims to challenge convention and to generate fresh ideas that foster new approaches to development policy and practice. Such problem-focused thinking requires a commitment to multidisciplinarity, and international partnerships across research, teaching and communications. For further details of IDS, please click here.

IDS supports research design which links chronic diseases to health systems and development issues such as poverty reduction. As an international leader in provision of information services for development with links to governments, international organizations, research institutes and advocacy groups, IDS also supports the programme’s communications activities.

Allied institutions in Bangladesh:

Bangladesh Institute of Research & Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM)

National Heart Foundation

Dhaka Ahsania Mission Cancer Hospital

National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital

National Institute of Diseases of Chest & Hospital

National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD)