• Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Condition
  • Archive

ARK Foundation

  • Home
  • About
    • About Organization
    • Our Partners
    • Global Networks & Leadership
  • Our Team
    • Advisor
    • Executive Director
    • Research and Development
    • Research Uptake & Communications
    • Programme and Training
    • Finance and Administration
    • Data and Field Management
  • Our Work
    • Communicable Disease
    • Non-communicable Disease
    • Multimorbidity
    • Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Maternal, Newborn, Child and Reproductive Health
    • Nutrition
    • Health Systems
    • Climate Change and Environment
    • Gender, Equity and Social Inclusion
  • News & Media
    • Event
    • News
    • Blog
    • Video
    • Newsletter
  • Resources
    • Journal Article
    • Report
    • Working Paper
    • Project Brief
    • Policy Brief
    • Conference Proceedings
    • Infographics
    • Posters
  • Career
  • Contact

Between Progress and Pitfalls: Fixing Bangladesh’s Urban Health Crisis

by
 By Abdullah M. Rafi (published in The Business Standard on 15 May, 2025) Bangladesh, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world according to the World Bank, has identified health as both a priority and a persistent challenge. Article 15(a) of the country’s constitution reflects this commitment by guaranteeing healthcare as a fundamental right for
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News, News and Media
No Comments

World Tuberculosis Day: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an mHealth intervention (mTB-Tobacco) for smoking cessation in people with tuberculosis (Quit4TB Trial)

by
By Ai Keow Lim, Fahmidur Rahman & Maham Zahid  What is TB and how smoking impacts TB Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection spread through respiratory droplets dispersed into the air, when someone with TB coughs and sneezes. Smoking increases the chances of contracting TB infection and TB disease. TB patients who smoke are more
Read more
  • Published in Blog, Case Study, News and Media
No Comments

Fighting TB on the Frontlines: Voices from the Ground

by
Abdullah M. Rafi Read the PDF Version Mr. Mahmud (pseudonym), 59, the Tuberculosis & Leprosy Controller Assistant (TLCA) at one of the TB centers on the outskirts – a 70-kilometer drive from the capital Dhaka – reflecting on his journey in combating TB, asserted that if people stopped using tobacco products, the number of TB
Read more
  • Published in Blog, Featured, News and Media
No Comments

ARK’s SIMPLE Solution to the Urban Data Dearth

by
Abdullah Muhammad Rafi On December of 2022, the Government of Bangladesh declared its next major initiative – the Smart Bangladesh Initiative – with a view to building a Smart Nation by 2041. Government’s Aspire to Innovate (a2i) program defines a ‘smart nation’ as “harnessing emerging technologies, networks, and data to create tech-enabled solutions that contribute
Read more
  • Published in Blog, Featured
No Comments

The Transgender Community and Disparities of Urban Health Care System: The Untold Stories

by
A transgender named Sumaiya (pseudonym) became sick while collecting money for a long time under the scorching heat of summer. She went to buy medicine from a road side drug store. While buying medicine, she heard many witticisms saying, ‘You also get sick!’ the drug sellers generally compel the transgenders to leave quickly as the
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News and Media
No Comments

Urban Dispensaries and Primary Healthcare in Dhaka

by
By Umme Salma Anee, Masroor Salauddin, Sadika Afrin, Faiaz Chowdhury, Nabila Binth Jahan, Deepa Barua, Rumana Huque, Helen Elsey Urban regions in Bangladesh are now more densely populated as a result of migration and industrialization. With a population rise of 3.26% from 2022 to 2023, Dhaka, the country’s largest metropolis that is growing day by
Read more
  • Published in Blog
No Comments

The Transgender Community and Disparities of Urban Health Care System: The Untold Stories

by
A transgender named Sumaiya (pseudonym) became sick while collecting money for a long time under the scorching heat of summer. She went to buy medicine from a road side drug store. While buying medicine, she heard many witticisms saying, ‘You also get sick!’ the drug sellers generally compel the transgenders to leave quickly as the
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News and Media
No Comments

Safeguarding and Urban Health Researchers in Bangladesh

by
Safeguarding policies and practices in the global health research sector are inspired and influenced by different sources and entities. In most countries, organizations form their safeguarding policies as per the law of the respective country and relevant laws of the host/donor countries they work with. While safeguarding policies are not the same in all research organizations
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News and Media
No Comments

Antimicrobial Resistance: An Overlooked Pandemic Threatening Our Economic Future

by
Have you ever wondered what would happen if no medicine were effective to treat illnesses, caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites? I am sure you have never thought about it. But it could happen because of a process known as “Antimicrobial Resistance or AMR”. We will discuss about AMR later. First, let us familiarize
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News and Media
No Comments

Men’s Health in Urban Bangladesh – Is the Urban Primary Healthcare System Leaving Men behind?

by
Abdur Rahim (pseudonym, aged 65+) lazily passes his days at his shabby little home in Duwaripara slum. Being a retired day-laborer, he is now financially dependent on his wife’s and daughter’s income, both of whom work as part-time maids for several families in Pallabi, Dhaka. Rahim, sitting at a tea-stall with a bunch of his
Read more
  • Published in Blog, News and Media
No Comments
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Recent Posts

  • mHealth intervention (mTB-Tobacco) for smoking cessation in people with drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis in Bangladesh and Pakistan: protocol for an adaptive design, cluster randomised controlled trial (Quit4TB)

    Read the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • Gender differences in mental health help-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional online survey

    Read the article here or download PDF version A...
  • Designing a strategic purchasing framework for urban primary healthcare services in Bangladesh: a protocol for a mixed-method study with a discrete choice experiment

    Find the article here or download PDF version A...
  • Expansion of low-price cigarette market and its implications for cigarette tax revenue: Evidence from Bangladesh

    Read the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • Engaging rural communities in Bangladesh to address antimicrobial resistance via the community dialogue approach: a protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial

    Read the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • Associations between sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance and usage of antibiotics from a One Health perspective in rural Bangladesh: a descriptive cross-sectional study

    Find the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • Perceived barriers and the price inflating effects of informal payments in fresh food retailing in urban Bangladesh

    Find it here or download the PDF version  ...
  • Facilitators and challenges to access fresh fruits and vegetables in a low to middle income group in Bangladesh: Consumers’ perception

    Find it here or download the PDF version Abstra...
  • How prepared are urban primary care facilities to manage hypertension and type 2 diabetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh? A cross-sectional descriptive study of government urban dispensaries and NGO clinics

    Find the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • Tobacco cessation intervention for individuals with severe mental illness in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan: protocol for a multi-country feasibility randomised controlled trial (SCIMITAR-SA)

    Read the article here or download the PDF versi...
  • When Cities Grow, Movement Shrinks: Urbanisation and Physical Activity in Bangladesh

    Find the PDF here Written by Riona Khan and S M...
  • Patient and provider perspectives of pluralistic primary care services in urban Bangladesh: a qualitative study

    Read it here or find PDF here Abstract Backgrou...
  • The Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) Method: Why Logistic Mediation Results Might Be Misleading?

    Read pdf here Written by Ibrahim Hasan and S M ...
  • South Asian Coalition of Policy and Evidence for Equitable food systems (SCOPE)

    The South Asian Coalition of Policy and Evidenc...
  • Fragmentation in urban health service provision? A plurality of providers is the answer

    Read it here or download PDF  Abdullah Rafi, fr...
  • International Women’s Day 2026

      When women give knowledge, care, and lea...
  • In-country public-private partnerships hold the key to promoting inclusiveness in Dutch trade and international cooperation agenda

    Read the PDF here...
  • COVID-19 and Tobacco

    Read the PDF here  ...
  • Taxation on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) in Bangladesh: What should we do?

    Read the PDF here...
  • Public Private Partnership in Improving Access and Utilization of Health Care Services: Scopes, Opportunities and Challenges

    Find the PDF here  ...

Empower Your Career with ARK Foundation

Discover opportunities to make a difference in health, education, gender equality, and environmental sustainability.

JOIN US

ARK Foundation is a non-government, non-political and not-for-profit organization dedicated to the socio-economic development of Bangladesh. Through evidence-based research, training and communications it provides sustainable solutions for health, education and social development.

ADDRESS

Suite A-1, C-3 & C-4, House # 06, Road # 109,
Gulshan-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1212

Phone: +88 02 55069866

Email: info@arkfoundationbd.org

LOCATION

  • GET SOCIAL

© 2025. All rights reserved. ARK Foundation.

TOP