Dr Mushtaque honoured
Dr Mustaque Chowdhury, deputy executive director of BRAC and dean of James P Grant School of Public Health of BRAC University, has been awarded the 'Social Innovator of the Year' award recently, says a press release. Brigham Young University, USA, presented the award to him in recognition of his contribution to making reading glasses available at an affordable price for the poor in rural areas of Bangladesh. A pilot project in this regard has already started in Narsingdi. He is the first non-US citizen to receive this prestigious award. Speaking at the award giving ceremony, Dr Chowdhury announced that the cash component of the award would be used in making glasses available free of cost to several thousands of ultra-poor women. Dr Chowdhury is also a professor of population and family health at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York.
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