Research Projects

Irregularities, provider practice, motivation and health system performance in Bangladesh
CoE-HS&UHC
Year: 2018
IRB Number: 2018-002-IR
Organaisation: BRAC JPGSPH
Health System Performance Corruption Primary Health Care Front Line Health Worker Policy Makers Activist Ngos

This project aims to investigate frontline healthcare providers' and managers' practices in delivering responsive, equitable, and quality services at primary healthcare (PHC) levels in Bangladesh.

PI: Dr. Syed Masud Ahmed, PhD

Co PI:

Sabina Faiz Rashid, Professor

Objective:1. To explore published and unpublished literature on corrupt practices among different cadres of professions within different research settings in Bangladesh, the successful and unsuccessful policies and programmes enacted to undermine corruption.

2. To work with policymakers, activists, non-governmental organizations and policy entrepreneurs to explore and identify the most detrimental forms of corrupt practices that they consider are technically and politically amenable to change within the health system.
3. To explore the ways in which membership of formal and informal organizations, institutions and networks shapes the most detrimental forms of corrupt practices that are technically and politically amenable to change among front-line health workers in primary health settings (public and private) in Bangladesh.

Methodology: Mixed method

Donor: DFID, UK

Partner: School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS)

University of London
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom

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