The James P Grant School of Public Health, along with BRAC, and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. The MoUs will consolidate partnerships between these institutes and will be the foundation for future joint research ventures while endeavouring to produce mutually beneficial framework for future collaborations, with the over-arching goal of reducing poverty and inequality.
Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury (Vice Chair, BRAC; Advisor to JPGSPH); Sabina Faiz Rashid (Dean, James P Grant School of Public Health); Sultan Hafeez Rahman (Executive Director, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development); and Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies) officially signed the MoUs.
The MoUs were signed as part of a wider series of events taking place at IDS and in the UK parliament, looking at the rapid progress of development in Bangladesh over the last forty years.