In Bangladesh, every year, more than 350,000 people are affected by Tuberculosis (TB), and more than 70,000 people die due to the same. 20% of the deaths are attributed to tobacco. These toll of death can easily be avoided by collecting information and counselling on tobacco use among TB patients by the TB care providers.

Dr. Rumana Huque, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Executive Director, ARK Foundation, moderated a panel discussion on “Sustainable Health Financing ” yesterday, in International Conference for Economists organized jointly by Bureau of Economic Research and Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. Among the panelists were Professor Sushil Ranjan Howlader, Founder Director of

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:

Two of the researchers from ARK Foundation, Fariza Fieroze and Zunayed Al Azdi, joined the Global Conference on Implementation Science and Scale-up, 2019 to present their research work in front of the researchers and implementers from all over the world. The conference was held at Radisson Blu, Dhaka from June 29 to July 1, 2019,

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