Public Health as a field is vast and houses anyone willing to bring about positive impacts at societal levels. 

High prevalence of inadequate health literacy causes health disparity in terms of access to and use of healthcare services.

The story would resonate with many young couples starting out in this ruthless city, where what you earn is nowhere near what you spend, just for the bare minimum.

Street children have zero protection from dengue

After Covid-19, a bold and visionary idea is starting to emerge: more clinicians joining public health can fortify defence against future health emergencies.

Why were the trauma centres built if they were to be left unused?

The municipal bodies must take water supply as their mandatory function more seriously and draw up a medium-term plan to bring 100 percent of urban population under a piped water supply network by 2030.

Housing developers' interests are getting in the way of making Dhaka a liveable city

Bangladesh falls short in leadership and commitment to improving the healthcare system.

Journalists must add nuance to debates, not shut them down

The spread of dengue across the country requires better public health preparedness

To say that Roe v Wade does not affect us is untrue. It jeopardises women's right to choose all over the world.

DGHS needs a realistic plan to bring unauthorised hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres under regulation.

Like all other developing towns and cities in Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar has been growing at a tremendously rapid rate. And, not surprisingly,

The electronic and press media in Bangladesh has recently been highlighting the findings of the 2018 World Air Quality Report published by Greenpeace and AirVisual. As per this report, Bangladesh has the most polluted air in the world, and Dhaka is the second most polluted capital city.

In June 1971, in a press conference, US President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse as the “public enemy number one.” This was a day after the publication of a ...

Science could soon unleash a most incongruous army in the war against disease - one composed of filthy flies.

Every Eid, people unfortunate enough to take ill and get admitted to one of the major public hospitals is faced with the same spectacle.

Multinational tobacco companies will benefit from the proposed budget as the finance minister has not increased the prices of medium and high segment cigarettes.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) yesterday formally handed over 80 food carts to as many trained vendors at a ceremony with a view to ensuring safe street food and improving public health.