icddr,b (icddr,b)
Bangladesh
icddr,b was established in Dhaka in 1960s as the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) Cholera Research Laboratory.
During the 1960s, the CRL also established a large-scale health and demographic surveillance site at Matlab in Chandpur district – now the longest-running such site in the global South and an inspiration for many similar sites worldwide.
In 1978, the CRL received fresh impetus and a new name – the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. In recent years, we have been known simply as icddr,b.
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