Background:
As well as developing injury prevention programmes the CIPRB conducts world class research. CIPRB collaborates with distinguished researchers, institutions and development organizations to address one of the most under acknowledged public health issues facing the world today.
Our research objectives are to;
Methods of research
1) Field Laboratory
For new research, programme innovation and related activities the CIPRB utilises its field laboratory situated at Raiganj in the Sirajganj district. The CIPRB constructed the laboratory which has helped developed effective links with local institutions and the community. The laboratory serves a population of 135,000 providing a unique health, demographic and injury surveillance system.
Raiganj has a population of 317,666 and has 9 Unions/Wards, 187 Mauzas/Mahallas, 267 villages and 77,198 households. The total area of Raiganj is 259.74 sq. km (100.28 miles) and a literacy rate of 38.15%.
2) Surveillance
Since CIPRB’s inception it has conducted injury surveillance (from 2005 to 2010) in five unions namely Dhubil, Ghurka, Brammagachha, Chandaikona and Dhangara at Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj district covering 43,729 households under the Prevention of Child Injuries through Social-intervention and Education (PRECISE) project.
More recently, injury surveillance has continued with the support of the International Drowning Research Centre-Bangladesh (IDRC-B). From 2010, 5 data collectors and 1 supervisor have conducted injury surveillance in a total 31,334 households of 3 unions namely Brammagachha, Chandaikona and Dhangara at Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj district. The surveillance is conducted in every household at 6 month intervals and the information is collected on birth, death, marriage, migration and injury morbidity.
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Research programs
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Designing and implementing Comprehensive Child Injury Program (PRECISE)
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Infrastructure survey on Injuries
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Household Risk and Hazards
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Feasibility of rural swimming learning centre
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Hospital based Child Injury Surveillance
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Evaluation of quality assurance scheme in health care
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Maternal and Neonatal Health Survey in Netrokona
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Financial Empowerment and Violence Against Women
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Community Based Postnatal Care Study
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Community based rehabilitation of disabilities
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Qualitative studies in New Neonatal questions in demographic health survey
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Maternal and Peri-natal Death Review (MPDR)
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Pilot Implementation of “Quality Improvement System in Maternal and Neonatal Health Services in Two Districts of Bangladesh
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Baseline survey training, Life Saving Skills (LSS) for EmOC training and other activities under the project titled Making it Happen 2 (MiH2)
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