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ICDDR,B

Mission statement:

To develop and promote realistic solutions to the major health, population, and nutrition problems facing poor communties both in Bangladesh and other countries, with emphasis on simple and cost-effective methods of prevention and management.

Introduction:

ICDDR,B is an international institute involved in health and population research and training, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In collaboration with partners from academic and research institutes throughout the world, the Centre conducts research, training and extension activities as well as programme-based activities aimed at addressing some of the most critical global health needs. In its hospital and clinical settings the Centre provides health services in its areas of expertise to the populations located within the research settings.

The Centre has both national and international staff in the capacities of researchers, medical officers, administrators, health workers, clinicians, demographers, social and behavioural scientists, IT professionals and experts in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, vaccines sciences etc.

Since 1978, the Centre has shared knowledge and techniques with the global community by training more than 20,000 health professionals from 78 countries around the world.

Activities:

Child health programme
The Centre directs its child health research and services to the broad spectrum of childhood illnesses typically affecting children in the developing world. Its intervention strategies and research focus on cost-effective and locally applicable solutions.

Reproductive health programme
The Centre established and continues to operate the Matlab Health Research Centre (MHRC) through which it can maintain longitudinal data on a rural population that exceeds 210,000 people. Using the Matlab model and working with the Government of Bangladesh, the Centre has been able to extend the essentials of the Matlab programme to other areas of the country, a result of which has been the increase in the national contraceptive prevalence to over 50 per cent.

Infectious diseases and vaccine sciences
The Centre is a leader in characterising major infectious diseases, patterns of antimicrobial resistance, and prevalence rates of newly-emerging infectious diseases in Bangladesh. Some of the emerging diseases that have been characterised at the Centre include:

• El Tor cholera replacing classical cholera;
• V.cholerae 0139 which appeared in Bangladesh and India in 1992

Population, health and poverty
The Centre has the largest health and demographic surveillance system collecting longitudinal data on health and population in the developing world (Matlab). Through the INDEPTH Network of surveillance systems, the Centre is working with 28 other member sites around the world to develop and refine research systems to better understand how health can be improved, and made more equitable, particularly among the poor.

Areas of expertise:

The Centre’s work is mainly based in Bangladesh but the research findings developed at the Centre provide guidelines for policy-makers in international agencies, implementing agencies in Bangladesh and health professionals worldwide.

Publications:

Find out more about ICDDR,B’s publications from http://202.136.7.26/pub/

For further information please contact:

Dr Abdullah Brooks, Scientist, Division of Health Systems and Infectious Diseases
abrooks@mac.com

Ms Ann Walton, Head, Human Resources Department
awalton@icddrb.org

Address:

ICDDR,B - Centre for Health and Population Research
Mohakhali,
(GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000)
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh
Phone: +(880-2) 8811751 – 60 [10 lines]
Fax: +(880-2) 882 3116, 882 6050, 881 2530, 881 1568

Website:

www.icddrb.org