Tomorrow (Monday 13th May) and Tuesday BNAC (Britain-Nepal Academic Council) will held its annual conference. The conference is called the 21st BNAC Nepal Study Days, which will be in Edinburgh this year. Bournemouth University academics will be involved in several presentations and panel discussions. Drs. Pramod Regmi and Nirmal Aryal and prof. Edwin van Teijlingen will be part of the panel discussion ‘Navigating Health Challenges: The Well-being of Nepalese Migrant Workers’. All three academics were part of the recently completed study on kidney disease in Nepalese Migrant workers, a project lead by Bournemouth University and funded by The Colt Foundation. 
All three researchers are also involved in the latest international research funded by a $4 million cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, International Programs. USA.
Furthermore, there will also be a presentation on another recently completed study on the impact of federalisation on Nepal’s health system. The paper ‘Studying The Effects Of Federalisation On Nepal’s Health System: From Participatory Action Research To Producing Policy Briefs’ will be presented by Dr. Sharada P. Wasti (University of Greenwich), Prof. Padam Simkhada (University of Huddersfield & Visiting Professor at BU), and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen. This interdisciplinary study was funded by the Health Systems Research Initiative (MRC/FCDO/Wellcome Trust/ESRC).
Several BU papers at this week’s BNAC Nepal Study Days
National media coverage in Nepal
Migrant workers & mental health in Nepal
Migration and mental health meeting in Kathmandu
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