Staff Reporter :
icddr,b on Wednesday announced that it would receive $2 million as unrestricted funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2017.
The research centre will be honoured at international Hilton Humanitarian Symposium and Prize Ceremony 2017 in October 2017 in
recognition of its innovative approach for solving global health issues impacting the world’s most impoverished communities.
A discussion meeting was organised by icddr,b in this connection titled ‘Collaboration between Government and icddr,b: Past, Present and Future’ to celebrate the occasion at its head office in the city.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mohammed Nasim joined the programme as the Chief Guest.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque and Ministry for Health and Family Welfare Secretary Serajul Islam took part as special guests and Director General of Directorate General of Health Service Abul Kalam Azad, Executive Director of icddr,b Dr John David Clemens and Deputy Executive Director of icddr,b Sayed Monjurul Islam, among others, spoke on the occasion.
“icddr,b have to expand its activities to the makeshift shelters of Rohingya people before out- break of communicable diseases over there for serving humanity, ” said Mohammed Nasim
“We have defeated communicable diseases like cholera over the past fifty years and controlled Chikungunya also with assistance of icddr,b and in future we hope we will be successful in assuring better health service in Bangladesh,” Nasim added.
Speaking on Rohingya issue, the minister said that country like Germany has failed to accommodate one lakh refugee where a small country like Bangladesh has accommodated more than six lakh Rohingyas.
“In Myanmar, these Rohingya people never got any health services ever. In Bangladesh, we have supported them with vaccination, birth control mechanism and basic nutrition and supporting the humanity,” Nasim remarked.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated icddr,b on the occasion and appreciated its decades of work with a letter.
“We are honoured to receive the 2017 Hilton Humanitarian Prize,” said Executive Director of icddr,b Professor John Clemens.
“This will help support our current research efforts to move forward our in-house pipeline of new, low cost products and interventions addressing a wide range of public health problems in developing countries, including severe acute malnutrition and pneumonia in children, tuberculosis and life-threatening maternal haemorrhage during childbirth,” Professor Clemens added.
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2017 is the largest annual humanitarian award in the world given by the USA based Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, which recognises that icddr,b’s world class facility in Dhaka has served for decades as a global hub for cutting edge research on enteric diseases although developing countries are not the first place people look to find a public health revolution.
“icddr,b has had a profound impact on health crises and breakthroughs worldwide,” said CEO of Hilton Foundation Peter Laugharn,.
“As we seek solutions to bridge global divides, the world can learn a lot from icddr,b. Not just about vaccines, but about scientifically-researched approaches to public health problems that worked,” he added.
icddr,b on Wednesday announced that it would receive $2 million as unrestricted funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2017.
The research centre will be honoured at international Hilton Humanitarian Symposium and Prize Ceremony 2017 in October 2017 in
recognition of its innovative approach for solving global health issues impacting the world’s most impoverished communities.
A discussion meeting was organised by icddr,b in this connection titled ‘Collaboration between Government and icddr,b: Past, Present and Future’ to celebrate the occasion at its head office in the city.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mohammed Nasim joined the programme as the Chief Guest.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque and Ministry for Health and Family Welfare Secretary Serajul Islam took part as special guests and Director General of Directorate General of Health Service Abul Kalam Azad, Executive Director of icddr,b Dr John David Clemens and Deputy Executive Director of icddr,b Sayed Monjurul Islam, among others, spoke on the occasion.
“icddr,b have to expand its activities to the makeshift shelters of Rohingya people before out- break of communicable diseases over there for serving humanity, ” said Mohammed Nasim
“We have defeated communicable diseases like cholera over the past fifty years and controlled Chikungunya also with assistance of icddr,b and in future we hope we will be successful in assuring better health service in Bangladesh,” Nasim added.
Speaking on Rohingya issue, the minister said that country like Germany has failed to accommodate one lakh refugee where a small country like Bangladesh has accommodated more than six lakh Rohingyas.
“In Myanmar, these Rohingya people never got any health services ever. In Bangladesh, we have supported them with vaccination, birth control mechanism and basic nutrition and supporting the humanity,” Nasim remarked.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated icddr,b on the occasion and appreciated its decades of work with a letter.
“We are honoured to receive the 2017 Hilton Humanitarian Prize,” said Executive Director of icddr,b Professor John Clemens.
“This will help support our current research efforts to move forward our in-house pipeline of new, low cost products and interventions addressing a wide range of public health problems in developing countries, including severe acute malnutrition and pneumonia in children, tuberculosis and life-threatening maternal haemorrhage during childbirth,” Professor Clemens added.
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2017 is the largest annual humanitarian award in the world given by the USA based Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, which recognises that icddr,b’s world class facility in Dhaka has served for decades as a global hub for cutting edge research on enteric diseases although developing countries are not the first place people look to find a public health revolution.
“icddr,b has had a profound impact on health crises and breakthroughs worldwide,” said CEO of Hilton Foundation Peter Laugharn,.
“As we seek solutions to bridge global divides, the world can learn a lot from icddr,b. Not just about vaccines, but about scientifically-researched approaches to public health problems that worked,” he added.
