BU Research Blog

This week Notan Dutta, from our collaborating research organisation CIPRB (Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh) presented a poster on ‘Identifying the strengths and challenges from the perspective of primary caregivers of drowning prevention interventions in Bangladesh’ at the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion (Safety 2024).  One of the co-authors of this poster presentation is Bournemouth University’s PhD student Md. Shafkat Hossain.  Shafkat also attended the conference in India.  Shafkat was in Delhi funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of its Emerging Leaders in Drowning Prevention programme.  This initiative brings together a cohort of younger leaders to join national and international efforts to raise awareness and strengthen solutions and political commitment towards drowning.

Our research into drowning prevention of under two-year old children in rural Bangladesh is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) through their Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation programme. For more information about our ongoing collaborative research in Bangladesh, please see the NIHR website.  This is an interdisciplinary project between Bournemouth University, CIPRB, the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute), the University of the West of England, the University of the West of England, and Design Without Borders (DWB) in Uganda.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen & Dr. Mavis Bengtsson

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health

1. Dutta N, Hossain S, Morshed G, et al. (2024)  197 Identifying the strengths and challenges from the perspective of primary caregivers of drowning prevention interventions in Bangladesh,Injury Prevention 30:A39-A40.