BU Research Blog

This past three weeks Bournemouth University (BU) has  strengthened our existing collaboration with MMIHS (Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Science) in Kathmandu.  Until 2023 we have a staff  and student Erasmus+ student exchange with MMIHS.   Currently one FHSS PhD student is in Nepal at MMIHS as part of this Erasmus+ exchange.  Two weeks Dr. Pramod Regmi, Senior Lecturer in International Health, was here for the GCRF-funded health and migration workshop which was organised in Kathmandu jointly with MMIHS.  See the BU Research Blog of 15th April for more details (click here!). 

Yesterday Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen met colleagues from the UK and Nepal at MMIHS to analyse some of the data from the Nepal Federal Health System Project.  This three-year major collaborative project examines the consequences for the health system of Nepal’s move to a federal government structure in 2015.  This is a joint project led by the University of Sheffield with Bournemouth University, the University of Huddersfield, and two institutions in Nepal: MMIHS and PHASE Nepal.  This interdisciplinary study is funded by the UK Health Systems Research Initiative [Grant ref. MR/T023554/1]. 

At BU we are looking forward to welcoming MSc students and academic staff from MMIHS to BU as part of this exchange.  We hope to generate interest among Nepalese postgraduate student to apply for a PhD place at BU.

Last, but not least, last week Prof. Vanora Hundley and I launched the book  Academic Writing and Publishing in Health & Social Sciences in Kathmandu.  This textbook has three chapter authors who are currently (or were recently) affiliated with MMIHS: Prof. Sujan Marahatta, Dr. Pratik Adhikary and Dr. Yubaraj Baral.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

Reference:

Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P.P., Hundley, V. with Shreesh, K. (Eds.) (2022) Academic Writing and Publishing in Health & Social Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal Books.  [ISBN: 9789937117609]