Health systems in both developed and developing countries are now struggling to respond to the challenges posed by COVID-19. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Bangladesh has already taken several immediate actions to combat COVID-19. ARK Foundation proposes to develop a ‘Comprehensive National COVID-19 Response Management Policy’ under the leadership of MOHFW of Bangladesh, outlining

The spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an issue of growing global concern. It is often cited as one of the most critical threats to global health, food security and development. Antibiotic drugs are used to treat the bacterial diseases. When these drugs become no longer sensitive to the bacteria then it is called Anti-microbial

Multiple news media covered our webinar titled “Health System Response to COVID-19: Learning Across Bangladesh and Vietnam” held on 30 June 2020. Below are the names of the news media. Interested readers, just click on the name to read the news: English News:   Bengali News:

We are happy to announce that we became a part of ASTRA – a brand new programme to address Smokeless Tobacco use and build research capacity in South Asia. This is funded by the National Institute for Health Research, the largest national clinical research funder in Europe and partnered with University of York, Brunel University, University of Edinburgh, University of

With the title “Designing Interventions to Improve Patient Feedback Systems at Upazila Health Complexes in Bangladesh” an workshop and dissemination session was held at BMA Bhaban on 20th June, 2018. The program was chaired by Muhammad Ruhul Quddus, Director General of Health Economics Unit (HEU) of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW). We were

ARK foundation is conducting multiple researches to strengthen health service delivery in Bangladesh, funded by UKAid. ARK, from its experiences working at Upazila Health Complexes and Community Clinics (CC), believes that, responsiveness of both supply and demand side is crucial for ensuring quality health care at Community, Upazila and District levels. We are aware of many

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