Research Projects

Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities
CUEH
Year: 2018 - 2024
IRB Number: 2019-012-lR
Organaisation: BRAC JPGSPH
Policy Scenarios Health Impact Stakeholder Engagement Capacity Building Policy Implementation Analytical Framework Locally-Parameterized Models Dhaka City Health Outcomes Cross-Sector Policy Integration Quantifying Health Impacts Health Policy Development Integrated Health Models Urban Health Policy

This study aims to develop actionable policy scenarios considering the health impacts of various sectors and validate these scenarios with stakeholders. It seeks to engage and build the capacity of stakeholders to facilitate policy implementation. Additionally, the study will create an integrated analytical framework and locally parameterised models for Dhaka city to guide policy formation across sectors and quantify their impacts on health outcomes.

PI: Professor Zahidul Quayyum

Co PI: Md Tanvir Hasan

Co-investigators: Professor Sabina Faiz Rashid (Technical Advisor)

Objective:

  • To develop actionable policy scenarios bearing in mind the health impact of different sectors on health outcomes and validate them with stakeholders
  • To engage and build the capacity of these stakeholders to facilitate policy implementation
  • To develop an integrated analytical framework and develop locally parameterised models for Dhaka city that will guide forming and integrating policy scenarios across sectors and quantify their impacts on health outcomes.

Methodology: Quantitative and Qualitative methods, spatial analysis and modelling with simulation

Donor:

  • Wellcome Trust, UK

Partner:

  • Ames Research Center
  • Anzhen Hospital China
  • Arizona State University
  • Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE)
  • McGill University, Canada
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • Public Health England
  • Simon Fraser University Canada
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • The University of Chicago
  • Tsinghua University, China
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Ghana

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