Book Launch and Panel Discussion featuring Visiting Scholar Mushtaque R. Chowdhury
Join the Pulte Institute and the Eck Institute for Global Health for a book launch and panel discussion featuring Visiting Scholar Mushtaque Chowdury.
Chowdury's book, 50 Years of Bangladesh: Advances in Health, explores the positive and measurable progress in the health sector in post-independence Bangladesh. Chowdury will discuss the current and future challenges and offer reflections from his years of experience as Vice Chair of the globally renowned non-governmental organization, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC).
Other Panelists Include:
Kasturi Haldar, Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C. Professor of Biological Sciences
Ray Offenheiser, Moderator, Director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business and Senior Advisor to Keough School Dean Scott Appleby
Paul Perrin, Evidence and Learning Director at the Pulte Institute and Keough School Associate Professor of the Practice
A reception in the Jenkins Nanovic Forum will follow.
About Mushtaque Chowdury:
Mushtaque Chowdhury is the former Vice Chair of BRAC, among the most celebrated non-governmental organizations globally. Previously, he was its Executive Director, founding Director of the Research and Evaluation Division, and founding Dean of the BRAC University James P. Grant School of Public Health.
Chowdhury is also a Population and Family Health Professor at Columbia University, making him the first Bangladeshi to hold a professorial position in an Ivy League university. He also served as the Senior Advisor and acting Managing Director for the Rockefeller Foundation and as a Research Fellow at Harvard University.
While serving as a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame’s Pulte Institute and Eck Institute for Global Health from September 2023 to February 2024, Chowdhury is working to forge links between Notre Dame and Bangladeshi institutions, write policy papers on the function and sustainability of NGOs in the Global South, and complete the English version of his BRAC memoir.
Check out the Keough School's profile of Mushtaque Chowdury.