Featured Blogs
Blog February 8, 2017
Managing Menstruation: Debriefing Session with Field Researchers
Adolescent girls face significant challenges while menstruating. In Nepal, menstruation management is made more difficult in contexts where girls have limited access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and in places where they are unable to access adequate sanitary napkins because of financial or supply issues in rural ...
Blog November 12, 2015
Recruitment for Reconstruction: Engaging Engineers for Household Disaster Assessment
HERD International is collaborating with National Planning Commission (NPC), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), The World Bank, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) to implement a National ...
Blog October 6, 2021
Can we do participatory research online?
Engaging community members virtually The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our lives. We are compelled to restrict our travel and limit our face-to-face interactions as safety measures against COVID-19. These ...
Blog August 31, 2021
Innovating Covid-19 treatment
Covid-19 has taught us some great lessons. One of such lessons I am presenting here is how Nepal’s hospitals have been moving towards the digitization of the patient information system to effectively manage Covid-19 patients. ...
Blog August 31, 2021
Addressing the unnoticed plights of the urban poor
What is a city? Definitions vary. Generally, it is government authorities who set the benchmarks to call a certain place a city. Administrative and statistical definitions of a city are attributed to populations, households and ...
Blog August 19, 2021
Vaccination for all: Where does Nepal stand?
Diagnosis, treatment and vaccination are essential life-saving tools to contain and control the Covid-19. An unprecedented scientific collaboration has delivered several safe and effective vaccines in the market in record time. ...
Blog July 26, 2021
Effect of existing burden of disease and out-of-pocket spending on universal health coverage
Achieving universal health coverage is far away for Nepal due to poor targets, ineffective implementation of health schemes and existing barriers to seek health services from health facilities. In one hand, there is high burden of ...
Blog July 25, 2021
The Rising Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal: Problems and Prospects for Health System
Recently, on behalf of HERD International, I got an opportunity to participate in the Seventh Virtual National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal held on 1-2 July 2021. The theme of the summit was ‘Research in ...