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| The National Institute
of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), the only national
level public health institute under the University of
Dhaka, Bangladesh was established in 1978 with the aim
to produce post-graduates capable of satisfying the needs
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| The institute
is also supporting in the different health policy formulation
of the government and community health programs through
research, training and services. It conducts 8 (eight)
Master of Public Health (MPH) courses of one-year duration
each and 1 (one) M. Phil course of 2 years duration. The
institute was accredited by the University of California
(1978) and Liverpool University (1982). WHO / SEARO has
also recognized NIPSOM as an institute of excellence in
1978 and started sending its fellows for public health
degrees. The institute became member institute of International
Association of School of Public Health (1990) and Asia
Pacific Consortium for Public Health (APACPH, 1990). The
mission of this institute is to develop NIPSOM as a center
of high credibility in academic, research, training and
service delivery to support the government in the field
of public health activities in order to improve the quality
of health care. It also strives for continuous updating
of the curriculum to keep pace with international standards
so that students both local and foreign are attracted
to be enrolled in the institute, which is intended to
be a Collaborative Center of WHO/UNFPA. Considering the
economic situation of the country NIPSOM is also trying
to find out ways and means for generation more revenues
and sharing of costs through teaching, training, research
and service delivery for enabling the institute to perform
more efficient academic and research activities
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