Category : Bangladesh
Jan 31, 2013 | Bangladesh, News, Students
On January 19th, SAI and Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) co-hosted an afternoon tea to introduce visiting Harvard School of Public Health students to Harvard alumni and local leaders in development and education. The students shared their reflections on a...
Dec 6, 2012 | Bangladesh
After fifty years of development efforts, 80 per cent of states are still at low, stagnating or failing levels of capabilities. Why? What could be done better? Professor Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School...
Nov 29, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, India, News
November 30, 2012 – Speakers include David Bangsberg, Director of International Programs at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the International Program for the Harvard University...
Nov 29, 2012 | Bangladesh, News
Participants of a three-day national workshop on leadership developed and offered by Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC), the country’s first leadership institute, and supported by the Canadian High Commission in Bangladesh, were awarded certificates at a...
Nov 21, 2012 | Bangladesh, News
SAI is pleased to announce that the Anwarul Quadir Foundation will support Fellowships for two Harvard students to travel each year to Bangladesh to intern at established business in Dhaka, to promote understanding in the Harvard community of the social and...
Nov 8, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region
Last week, SAI Regional Coordinator Maria May was one of 1,800 participants in the second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research held in Beijing, China. Much of the conversation centered on achieving universal health coverage, and both Bangladesh and India were...
Aug 24, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, India, News, Pakistan
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Aug 1, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, News
To further its presence in Bangladesh, Harvard’s South Asia Initiative is working with BRAC, a Bangladeshi organization recognized as a leader the world efforts to alleviate poverty. BRAC provides SAI with information from the frontlines, keeping it up-to-date...
Mar 1, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, News, Students
In early March, members of Dhaka’s Harvard community met at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. Shazzad Hoshen Khan, an emerging Bengali artist, was present to discuss his work on exhibition. Attendants included Ms. Ferdous Begum, former Director General for Bangladesh...
Jan 20, 2012 | Bangladesh, In Region, News
SAI Associate Director Meena Hewett traveled to Bangladesh in January, 2012. She spoke at a Harvard Alumni Club Event on Friday, January 20, 2012, along with the Chief Guest of the gathering, Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikram, Advisor to the Honourable Prime...
