Dr. Senjuti Saha of the Child Health Research Foundation has been appointed to serve on the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB), created by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to monitor and guide the process of polio transition planning. This …
Category: Milestones
Dr. Samir K. Saha on the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NiTAG), Bangladesh
We are very excited to announce that Dr. Samir K Saha has become a member of Bangladesh NiTAG (National Immunization Technical Advisory). Dr. Saha heads the department of microbiology at the Dhaka Shishu (Children’s) Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is …
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CHRF receives the prestigious Charles C. Shepard Science Award 2019
In the fall of each year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) recognizes scientists who have made important research contributions to public health and acknowledges them with famous Charles C. Shepard Science Award. …
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Highlights of 2018
It’s February of 2019 and we are just publishing our Highlights of 2018 – yes we are a little late to the party, but January 2019 kept us busy! Last month, we got our own IIlumina sequencer, an automated extraction …
Bangladesh leads the world one step closer to understanding causes of deaths in newborns
It is estimated that even today >500,000 deaths in newborns occur every year due to serious infections. However, little is known about what microorganisms cause these infections, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to save lives through informed-treatment or …
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New Typhoid Vaccine is on its way to South Asia
On January 3rd 2018 the World Health Organization declared the prequalification of a new typhoid conjugate vaccine specifically targeting low- and middle income countries. The news came to us as a pleasant surprise and we are all grateful to Bharat …