Dr. Wilson developed the model together with Dr. Steven Hawken, a scientist and big data expert at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. After validating the model using Canadian data, they teamed up with researchers from Bangladesh to try it in another setting.

Low-income countries are most affected by pneumonia: the illness is about three times more common than in developed countries. The first reason for this is that children in rich countries are vaccinated against pneumonia-causing bacteria pneumococcus. This is pricey, though. The vaccination in the United States, for example, requires four doses costing $200 each.

According to Gurley, who led the Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation Unit and directed the Programme on Emerging Infections at ICDDR,B from 2003 to 2015, it's not a matter of if there will be another pandemic on our crowded and degraded planet, it's a question of when, and which disease it will be—Ebola, Disease X, Nipah? She's spent the past 15 years, first at ICDDR,B and now at Johns Hopkins, doing everything in her power to make sure it's not Nipah.

For decades, Dr Jan R. Holmgren and Dr John D. Clemens dedicated themselves to research on an oral vaccine against cholera -- an acute intestinal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated...

Dr John Clemens and Dr Jan Holmgren, winners of the 2018 Prince Mahidol Awards in the field of public health, said that not only did the award help them find funding in their fight against cholera, it also raised public awareness of this deadly but preventable disease.

A recent study of female garment factory workers in Dhaka found that 52 percent had experienced some form of domestic violence over the previous year.

Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti was a young doctor in Sylhet, Bangladesh, when three pneumonic children died under his watch for lack of a ventilator. Refusing to accept defeat, he developed an ingenious alternative using discarded shampoo bottles that revolutionised medical treatment in the field. This inspiring story is courtesy of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

In small villages along the eastern coast of Bangladesh, researchers have noticed an unexpectedly high rate of miscarriage. As they investigated further, scientists reached the conclusion that climate change might be to blame. Journalist Susannah Savage went into these communities to find out more.

Dengue season usually begins with June’s monsoon rains in Dhaka. An unavoidable fact of life, it proves deadly to a handful of unfortunate victims but by September it has mostly disappeared from the Bangladeshi capital.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — On a humid afternoon outside the world’s largest diarrheal disease hospital in Bangladesh’s capital, a constant stream of patients is seeking urgent medical care. Some of the new arrivals rely on friends and family to carry them through the doors, while the most feeble are wheeled inside on stretchers by medical staff.

This doctor is turning shampoo bottles into "ventilators" and it's helping children survive pneumonia.

A doctor in Bangladesh has repurposed a plastic shampoo bottle to help save infants suffering from pneumonia. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to Dr. Mohammod Chisti about his life-saving innovation.

Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) were a facet of developed countries, but there has been a considerable shift (in lifestyles, diets etc) in the past 15-20 years in many low and middle income countries which now account for 80% of NCD-related deaths worldwide.

ON HIS first night as a trainee paediatrician in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Mohamad Chisti (pictured above) watched three children die of pneumonia.

Everyday 46 people drown - most of them children - but UN officials hope raising awareness will change that.

New attitudes are even more needed. In Dhaka’s slums it is often said that “women are flames and men are candles,” notes Ruchira Naved

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, two-month-old Sammiya flops lifelessly in her mother’s arms, her eyes glazed over. She is suffering from diarrhoea. This may not sound life-threatening – for most of us (in the West) diarrhoea is unpleasant, it might ruin a holiday or mean a few days off work at worst – but for many people across the world it is a killer.

FOR the feeding of babies, everyone agrees that “breast is best”. It is not, however, always convenient. Textile workers in Bangladesh, who are mostly women, are entitled to four months’ maternity leave.

While Bangladesh's textile trade has put money in women’s purses and challenged a patriarchal society to evolve, economic empowerment has not greatly improved gender equality and female wellbeing. On the contrary, women with jobs in the country’s largest industry are now imperiled on two fronts.

FOR adventurous travellers, it is merely an embarrassing nuisance. But among poor people diarrhoea is a killer. As many as half a million children are thought to die every year from enteric diseases, including cholera and dysentery. Repeated infections also weaken them, laying them open to attack from other killers such as pneumonia. Diarrhoea can even change a population’s appearance. One reason Indian children are shorter than sub-Saharan African children from families of similar means is that they fall sick more often.