Overseas Learning Collaboration - Bangladesh

The partnership between the GW Center for Global Health (CGH) and the James P. Grant School of Public Health (JPG SPH) at BRAC University is an institutional collaboration that encompasses building capacity for public health education and training programs, curriculum development, joint research, and faculty and student exchanges. The collaboration is actively working in the areas of faculty development and joint research initiatives, including ongoing work in the area of informal health workers. Over the last two years, several students have been able to spend a semester at JPG SPH gaining hands on experience in the practice of global public health through the GW CGH Global Health Service Fellows Program.

About the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University

BRAC University launched the James P. Grant School of Public Health to provide public health education relevant to the particular needs of the developing world. The mission of the School is to improve health outcomes of populations in disadvantaged areas of the world with a particular focus on the poor and women through the application of the art and science of public health. It employs a community-based learning approach through its operational links with BRAC and the ICDDR/B. The School’s first major undertaking was a Master of Public Health (MPH) program for Bangladeshi and international students.

From a modest beginning almost thirty years ago, BRAC has today grown into one of the largest nongovernment development organizations in the world. In line with BRAC's continued support to education as a force of change and development, BRAC University was established in 2001, and offers numerous undergraduate and graduate programs. BRAC works in a number of closely related areas such as poverty alleviation, rural health care and non-formal education among many others to bring about socioeconomic changes for a large number of Bangladesh’s and the world’s poor, mostly women and children, whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and malnutrition.

BRAC received the Gates Award for Global Health in 2004 and BRAC founder and Chairperson Fazle Hasan Abed received the Clinton Global Citizenship award in 2007 and the Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award in 2008.

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