Our Services

ICDDR,B provides services that support our mission by leveraging research and the generation of knowledge and its effective application.

Translating our research expertise
Services in this category are related to the four thematic research areas (healthy life course, mitigating risks and vulnerability, combating priority diseases, equitable health systems) with the aim of generating evidence-based knowledge, which can be used to improve public health practices in Bangladesh, the region and elsewhere.

Clinical and diagnostic services

ICDDR,B offers a range of clinical and diagnostic services, including a Travellers Clinic and laboratories for routine diagnostic examinations, vaccinations, pathological tests, mammographies, ultrasonographies, bronchoscopies, and upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopies. ICDDR,B also operates a blood bank and ensures continual monitoring of laboratory equipment and techniques to maintain and offer suitable services at the cutting edge of development.

Humanitarian services in response to emergencies, both within and outside Bangladesh
As an organisation with decades of expertise in the treatment of cholera and dysentery and the management of large epidemic outbreaks, ICDDR,B has always supported other nations facing these problems. ICDDR,B researchers and support staff have helped local authorities manage cholera outbreaks in places including Bahrain, Ecuador, Iraq, Mozambique, Peru, Zaire, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe. Rapid response teams comprising experts who manage cholera and severe diarrhoea in the field, both in Bangladesh and abroad, supplement capacity building services to health professionals in affected countries. ICDDR,B also offers the services of its biosafety levels 2 and 3 laboratories to type, process and store pathogens from humans and animals sent by partners and obtained by its own scientists, as well as for the training of professionals in the region in the use of these types of facilities.