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).

ARK Foundation organized a meeting at Islamic Foundation Library with Religious Leaders of the Govt. of Bangladesh (GoB). The aim was to explore and reach consensus for working with Public Health Issues that can be intervened through religious means. Our Guests were: Zakir Ahmed, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Religious Affairs, GoB Dr. Khizir Hayat Khan,

We feel joyous and proud to have Dr. Kamran Siddiqi among us, Professor of University of York and Project Investigator of our new project named MCLASS -II (Muslim Communities Learning About Second Hand Smoking). He and the team had a meeting on Intervention strategies which will be followed by several other upcoming meetings and workshops

On 24th March, it will be World TB Day. Under the National TB Programme (NTP), we can all make use of free TB diagnosis and treatment. But uptake to this free service is surprisingly slow. Why is this? My personal view is that there are still many myths that we have to overcome, the biggest one being that TB

Dhaka, November 17: Awareness, change in food habit and lifestyle, and early diagnosis and treatment can save many people affected by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) from premature death. Health experts made the observation at a national workshop on ‘Strengthening, Monitoring, Control System for NCDs at Various Levels of Health Delivery Systems’ held at BRAC Centre in