The ANISA project sends hundreds of community health workers to remote sites in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to gather biological samples from newborns in an unprecedented effort to learn which viruses and bacteria are causing infant deaths.[…]
ANISA was designed by a large international team and is led by pre-eminent scientists in Bangladesh. Notably, the Child Health Research Foundation, based in Dhaka Shishu (Children’s) Hospital, controls the purse-strings, and has contracted leading institutions and scientists from the CDC, the World Health Organization, Aga Khan University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, for expert input.