OUR RESEARCH AREAS
During the last eighteen years, Projahnmo has been working to improve health of Bangladesh population and values a community-based approach to research and intervention. Maternal, neonatal and childhood health has been the primary focus of the Projahnmo research group. It has established a platform to generate high quality evidences for improvement of health and survival of mothers, new-borns and children by conducting high priority translational research and providing policy and program supports to Bangladesh Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.
Nonetheless, Bangladesh like many other emerging economies is experiencing the health transition through our concerted efforts to improve maternal and child health via primary care and outreach services. Such efforts have resulted in improved preventive services; decreased birth rate; reduced maternal mortality; reduced infant mortality, and the increased life expectancy. These changes often are accompanied by increasing urbanization and industrialization creating health problems similar to those seen in the “developed” world i.e., the high rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Our work is driven by the needs of our population, and given the health transition towards NCDs, we have begun considering this line of inquiry in our research projects.
