To address the challenges and opportunities of health reporting, icddr,b communications team, in association with the Chandpur Press Club, organised a ‘Journalist Meet’ last week at Matlab, home of the longest-running Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in the developing world. Health reporting is considered to be one of journalism’s most complex and important areas. It

Journalists play an influential role in bridging the gap between research evidence and health policymaking. However, health reporters often find it difficult to verify the credibility of  information sources and struggle for effective search strategies to identify and access relevant knowledge resources on public health. In order to provide journalists with an opportunity to hone

Public engagement is generally defined as “a two-way process, involving interaction and listening, with the goal of generating mutual benefit”. Through public engagement initiatives, two-way communication offers an effective way of designing health policies and setting priorities. Public engagement with local communities helps scientists and researchers to optimize the relevance of their research, and can

In July, a Policy Breakfast to discuss Urban Primary Healthcare was organised by the EU-supported SHARE (Strengthening Health, Applying Research Evidence) project at icddr,b, in collaboration with the Institute of Informatics and Development, in order to promote evidence-informed debate on urban health and primary health care. Dr Alayne Adams, Senior Social Scientist at icddr,b and