The James P Grant School of Public Health, with support from UNICEF and BRAC University, launched its fourth Centre of Excellence – the Centre of Science of Implementation and Scale-Up in December 2016. The new Centre will endeavour to document best practices, conduct evidence-based advocacy and institutionalise capacity-building on the science of scaling up interventions, bridging the worlds of academia and policy-making for increased evidence-based decision-making on scaling up proven interventions. The Centre will primarily focus on scaling up innovations for child survival and development in the policy context of Bangladesh.
The objectives of the Centre of Excellence are threefold and centre on the following three areas: research; evidence-based advocacy; and training/capacity-building.