icddr,b 2015 annual report showcases year of innovative discoveries
icddr,bs 2015 annual report details its ground-breaking work highlighting life-changing contributions to solving public health problems through innovative scientific research and the development and implementation of policy in all its focus areas.
In 2015, icddr,b adopted a new three-year strategic plan which consolidated research around five main programmes and two initiatives, allowing focus on the issues that are of greatest significance to Bangladesh and the global South including:
maternal and neonatal mortality
maternal and childhood malnutrition
enteric and respiratory infections
emerging and re-emerging infections
achieving universal health coverage
climate change
non-communicable disease
icddr,bs Executive Director Professor John D Clemens said 2015 was a year of research excellence and innovation. We will continue to generate the evidence and innovation needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were announced last year. Much of our work falls under goal three, ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing.
Significant progress was made in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, and icddr,b will continue to play a pivotal role in the attainment of the SDGs.
Source: icddr,b
