Ms. Simeen Mahmud, Head of Gender Studies Cluster, and coordinator of Centre for Gender and Social Transformation, BIGD chaired the launching ceremony of the sixth Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2016 titled ‘Non-Communicable Diseases in Bangladesh: Current Scenario and Future Directions’ on 10 August 2017 at a hotel in the capital. Mr. Nahin Razzaq MP, member of the parliament standing committee on youth and sports ministry attended the ceremony as the chief guest where Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, Mr. Jane Edmondson, Dhaka Office head of United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, and Mr. Anders Ohstrom, head of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, spoke among others at the event.