ARK Researcher Tarana Ferdous presented a poster at 8th regional Public Health Conference 2017 organized by Bangladesh University of Health Science (BUHS) on 29th & 30th December, 2017. The poster topic was “Defining Household and understanding poverty in urban slums: A Qualitative study to inform household survey design in Nepal, Bangladesh and Vietnam.” Nationally representative household surveys, such as

A dissemination workshop of the study on ‘Social Determinants of Health in the prevention of Non-Communicable Disease’ was held today at Health Economics Unit of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The workshop was organized in collaboration with ARK Foundation and Health Economics Unit of Health Ministry. Different stakeholders from units of government joined the

A written statement was presented by Dr. Rumana Huque, Executive Director of ARK Foundation and Professor, Economics Department, University of Dhaka, at a pre-budget press conference on ‘Which Type of Tobacco Tax Demanded’ that has been held on 8 May at the conference lounge of National Press Club press conference. She stated that the existing tobacco

This year the theme of TB day was to be United to End TB – Leaving No One Behind. ARK team observed the day with other partner organizations and National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) members by joining in a Rally at morning. On the previous day, ARK Foundation distributed 20,000 fact sheets on TB with help of

Like other years ARK Foundation arranged its General Annual Meeting in Cox’s Bazar on January 26, 2017. Executive Director of ARK, Dr. Rumana Huque, chaired the meeting. All ARK employees joined the meeting, had discussion and presented on their activities, challenges and recommendation for the organization. Some of the policies are reviewed and some new

A training of Field Investigators by Dr. Md. Abul Bashar Sarker from Health Economics Unit of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Bangladesh has been conducted today at ARK Foundation under our study on Non-Communicable Disease (NCD).