The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) () is a

Bangladesh government The government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh () is the central government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Constitution of Bangladesh comprising the executive (the president, prime minister and cabinet), the le ...

research institute, under the Ministry of Health, responsible for researching epidemiological and communicable disease in Bangladesh as well as disease control. Tahmina Shirin is the head of the organization. __TOC__

History

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research was established by the government of Bangladesh in 1976. It is responsible for epidemiological and communicable disease research as well as developing public health plans for the government of Bangladesh to implement. It incorporated the previously established Malaria Institute of East Pakistan, which was part of the Central Malaria Institute of India before the

partition of India The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...

. The institute was the first COVID-19 testing site in Bangladesh following the

COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh in March 2020. The firs ...

. It had been given the task to carryout epidemiological surveillance during the pandemic.

References

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