CHRF is a non-profit organisation in Bangladesh dedicated to preventing infections and saving lives. Building Scientists for Bangladesh emerged in early 2022 as a means to nurture a generation of young individuals aspiring to become scientists and community leaders.
Microbiologist Senjuti Saha is the Director of the non-profit Child Health Research
Foundation (CHRF), in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a strong advocate for equity in global
health research. When she received a grant in 2018 to set up a sequencing facility
at CHRF and got the non-governmental organisation s first sequencing machine, she
says, “I wanted to show the world that you could be anywhere in the world and be able
to sequence. You don’t have to ship samples out to the US or UK. You can sequence
wherever you are and everybody s capable.