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Planning and Research Unit, Director General of Health Service

In an age where so many things are known, why we are applying so little of it? ‘Evidence based policy and practice’ has become a political mantra in the health sector now-a-days. However health policy making is a messy process and how research influence policy remains cloudy. There are genuine obstacles on the ground to ensure evidence based policy-making in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the low and middle income countries. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has taken initiative to establish a Research Policy Communication Cell (RPCC) at Planning and Research Division of DGHS with assistance from ICDDR,B, Alliance for Health Policy Systems Research and the WellCome Trust a to strengthen the evidence based health policy making in Bangladesh.

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