This week, a delegation from USAID Bangladesh visited icddr,b to experience the organisation’s pioneering and successful journey since inception and learn more about the USAID’s Research for Decision Makers (RDM) Activity, a five-year implementation research project that icddr,b has been implementing since May 2017. The RDM Activity aims at generating evidence and promoting the use
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AI detects patterns of gut microbes for cholera risk
Duke University Researchers from Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital and icddr,b used machine learning algorithms to spot patterns within communities of bacteria living in the human gut that no human would ever be able to pick out. These patterns could indicate who among the approximately one billion people around the globe at risk of cholera
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Satellites and cell phones form a cholera early-warning system
A new initiative combines satellite data with ground observations to assess and predict the risk of cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh’s vulnerable populations. By Ali S. Akanda, Sonia Aziz, Antarpreet Jutla, Anwar Huq, Munirul Alam, Gias U. Ahsan, and Rita Colwell. Originally published on Earth & Space Science News Cholera, an acute waterborne diarrheal illness, poses a major
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Role of journalists in health knowledge translation
In Bangladesh, there lies a gap between research evidences and health policymaking. Journalists can help bridge this distance by bringing policymakers and health managers together. Recently, an orientation training programme for journalists to sharpen their expertise and efficiency on mainstreaming evidence-informed health reporting was organised by icddr,b’s European Union supported SHARE (Strengthening Health, Applying Research
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Record-high patients at icddr,b Dhaka hospital as summer hits
It takes several people to resuscitate a man who arrived at the hospital an hour ago, inches away from death. This summer, Cholera strikes back, with water supplying authority declaring that it cannot guarantee safe water. Up to 700 patients rushed in for admission in a hospital that can accommodate 250. This is about 200
