Researcher visit from Bangladesh

Photo: Researchers from Khulna University, Centre for injury prevention and Research Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and the Centre for Societal Risk Research. Source: CSR

The project Consequences to human health in Bangladesh by Climate Change is funded through VR Research Links and includes four workshops in Bangladesh and Sweden fuling two years. The project aims at developing a strong research network between three institutions in Bangladesh and Sweden. The targeted research focus will be how a changed climate affects human health and funding will be sought for, among other things, a common PhD education to strengthen research capacities in Bangladesh and Sweden.

The foundation for the current activities can be found in a some 25-year collaboration. Two project participants from Bangladesh now active in the collaboration has conducted their PhD studies in Sweden, one at Karlstad University.  

The delegation visited Karlstad University and CSR from Monday 15 August to Thursday 18 August and spent the Friday together with CSR-colleagues in Stockholm. 

During the week a research seminar was arranged under the theme Climate Change and health consequences in Bangladesh and a visit to CSR:s RiskLab where focus was on creating awareness and communicating about climate related events and health risks as well as risk reduction measures.

Participants

Khulna University

• Md. Abdullah Yousuf Al Harun, Professor
  Environmental Science Discipline
• Md. Atikul Islam, Professor
  Environmental Science Discipline

Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh, CIPRB

• A KM Fazlur Rahman, Executive Director 
• SM Saidur Raman Mashreky, Director,
  NCD and Mental Health Department
• Chowdhury Farheen Binte Delwar, 
  Research Associate, 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, BSMMU

• Md Atiqul Haque, Professor
  Department of Public Health and Informatics
• Anika Tasnim, Research Assistant
  Department of Public Health and Informatics
• Fatema Khandakar, Research Assistant
  Department of Public Health and Informatics

Centrum för forskning om samhällsrisker

• Johanna Gustavsson, Director CSR
• Lars Nyberg, Professor, Risk- and environmental studies
• Syed Moniruzzaman, university lecturer, Risk- and environmental studies
• Jenni Koivisto, university adjunct, Risk- and environmental studies

Read more

• The research project Påverkan på människors hälsa i Bangladesh av konsekvenser från klimatförändringar (in Swedish)