Rampant air pollution has been plaguing Dhaka for some time now. While more expensive sensors used by government regular can cost between $20,000 and $30,000 US for each monitoring station, Glory Dolphin Hammes, North American CEO of IQAir is selling air quality monitoring products and managing a platform using regulatory and low-cost sensors around the world. The
In many parts of the world, understanding what causes serious pollution and when it happens is unclear due to a lack of air quality monitoring. The solution, say experts, doesn’t need to be expensive and can lead to better public health policy.
With the aim of building a resilient health system, ARK Foundation has launched the Health Economics Research Network (HERN) in Bangladesh. The launching event of the network, which is being supported by the Centre for Health Economics at the UK University of York, was held on 19 April at the Six Seasons Hotel in Dhaka, reads a press release. The network aims to create a