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Nepal Public Health Foundation organized an awareness and interaction program on September 26, 2020 in association with Bishal Milan Kendra and Kathmandu Metropolitan, Ward no 4 on the occasion of 41 st social service week.

The interaction program was held around the topic, “Corona Pandemic and Our social Responsibility”. This program was chaired by NPHF President Dr. Rita Thapa and the chief guest was the member of Provincial parliament of Bagmati Province, Honorable Mr. Narayan Silwal. Speakers from different fields of public health and ward office participated and spoke on the issues of Covid-19 and the responsibilities that organizations and individuals had towards their society in dealing with this pandemic.

A final dissemination session for HOPE GRID project was held on September 30 via zoom where representatives from PQPMC, MoALD, DoHS, CPFSL, NHRC, SWC and CPSP attended. In the hour and a half event, the results of the study was presented and outcomes of the study shared among the attendees. The final report was also launched in the same event, which were sent to the attendees after. The attendees all commended the research project and expressed their opinions on the important outcomes that could come out of scaling up the project in the future.

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Nepal stands out as one of the Exemplar Countries experiencing the fastest reduction of  stunting in the world. Evidence has also helped to reveal critical factors behind Nepal’s story of change in nutrition. In light of the belief that Exemplar countries may provide essential case study for discovering the diverse determinants responsible for successful reduction, Nepal was chosen for a study.

Nepal Public Health Foundation in collaboration with Sickkids, Canada conducted a study to identify the determinants of Stunting decline in Nepal from 1996 to 2016 which was conducted from December 2017 to August 2018. The findings of this study depicted that improvements in both nutrition-specific and nutrition sensitive sectors have been critical to Nepal’s stunting decline, particularly in the areas of poverty reduction, health, education, and sanitation.

This research has been published in “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” . And, the story behind this dramatic stunting decline has been highlighted by Bill Gates himself. We are proud to share this with you all.

Bill Gates has also presented Nepal’s efforts on stunting reduction in a video.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2sbVX3Wp0E&feature=share

Also, please find the article link here: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa218/5901954

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NPHF has been organizing public health lecture as its core activity every year inviting eminent public health professionals on June 30 to foster collective action of people around common agendas of public health.

The inaugural lecture was delivered on 2010 by Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam on “10+2 Agendas for Public Health”. In 2011, another lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr. Mathura Prasad Shrestha on “Understanding Public Health: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations. Similarly, 3^rd Lecture was delivered in 2012 by Dr. Mrigendra Raj Pandey on “Control of Non-Communicable Diseases: Scientific, Social, Spiritual Perspective”. Likewise, 4^th lecture in 2013 was on the topic “Public Health Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” by Dr. Hemang Dixit. In 2014, 5^th lecture was delivered by Dr Rita Thapa on “Changing Public Health Paradigm: Improving Family Planning-Maternal and Child Health in Nepal. The 6^th lecture of 2015 was delivered by Dr. B. D Chataut on “Unveiling the Debate on Euthanasia”. In the same way, 7^th lecture was delivered by Dr. Buddha Basnyat on “From a Reluctant Researcher to Public Health Advocacy: my life and times”. Finally, the last years 8^th lecture was delivered by Dr. Badri Raj Pande on “Switching to Public Health from Clinical Pediatrics: a reminiscence.” 9^th lectutre was conducted by Dr Dharma Sharna Manandar on the topic :” My adventure in Public health research” and the 10^th lecture was delivered by Dr Suniti Acharya on the topic “health development, equity and universal health coverage in federal Nepal”

NPHF has completed 10 years and this year is the 11^th Lecture . This year we have invited Dr Benu Bahadur Karki an eminent personality in Public Health to deliver the lecture on “Public Health Development in Nepal; Challenges and Opportunities”. Link here

Let’s not send home without PCR. Quick PCR will reduce the quarantine pressure.

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