Establishment of Collaboration

In 1990, Nagasaki University of Japan was encouraged to collaborate with this department, seeing the publications of this department. Successful collaboration with this University, created a good track record. This helped the laboratory to subsequent establishment of collaboration with many other organizations and universities of the world. All the collaborations of this department have been successful, as the department proved its capability to make significant contributions.

These collaborations are further strengthened and expanded by constant communication, transparency and accountability maintained by the department. Collaborators of the Department of Microbiology of Dhaka Shishu Hospital are:

• Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta
• Department of Microbiology, Oxford University
• GlaxoSmithKline
• International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• John's Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• pneomuADIP
• Save Newborn Lives (SNL), Save the Children, USA
• Threshar Research Foundation
• United States Agency International Development (USAID)
• Wakayama Medical University
• Wellcome Trust
• World Health Organization (WHO)

* Name of the collaborators are arranged in alphabetic order