Steps taken to strengthen clinical research
BSMMU, BMJ, icddr,b sign MoU
UNB
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and icddr,b signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to form an institutional platform and collaborate research initiative of clinical science across various health disciplines, including non communicable diseases, reports UNB.
The event took place at the BSMMU Vice Chancellors conference room attended by participants from the partner organisations.
Collaboration between BSMMU, the first and only medical university in Bangladesh, the BMJ, one of the oldest high impact medical journals, and icddr,b, one of the leading public health research institutes and the winner of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2017) will stress on reducing knowledge gap and strengthening capacities for conducting scientific research by the clinicians of the national institutions of the country.
This collaboration will also help in creating next generation researchers to tackle unforeseen public health challenges of the next century.
Specific scopes of the agreement include provide facilities and share of knowledge and experience, help conduct clinical research training, organise workshops and scientific seminars and help prepare research protocols and conduct scientific research.
It also covers help to write research grant and raise research funding, and finally help publish and circulate papers, periodicals, books, publications and other literary works.
On the occasion, Prof Kamrul Khan, Vice-chancellor of BSMMU, said, I strongly feel the requirement of a critical mass of local scientists and health research professionals to collaborate in clinical research to address the rising burden of NCDs and other emerging health issues.
He said he believes the proposed clinical research platform will create a golden opportunity for producing a pool of local scientists, clinicians and educationists to conduct independent research appropriate to health priorities in Bangladesh.
Prof John D Clemens, executive director of icddr,b, said icddr,b has many pioneering collaborative research initiatives; discovery of ORS is a good example of the outcome of successful collaboration.
