BHW started its journey with the publication of a series of biennial reports, Bangladesh Health Watch Report (BHWR), which identifies the most critical challenges to the health sector at a particular point in time and publishes insightful situation analyses leading to practical recommendations based on evidence from existing and primary research. The publication of well-recognised biennial reports is the main activity of BHW.

Bangladesh Health Watch published eight reports and the first report published in December 2006. The reports have been published on the issues: Sate of Health in Bangladesh (2006), Health Workforce (2007), Health Sector Governance (2009), Universal Health Coverage (2011), Urban Health Scenario in Bangladesh (2014), Non-Communicable Diseases (2016), Humanitarian Crisis in Rohingya Camps: A Health Perspective (2018-2019). COVID-19 in Bangladesh: The first two years and looking ahead (2020-2021), State of Professional Public Health Education in Bangladesh (2023-2024).

BHW publishes policy brief semi-annually. The first policy brief was published in May 2020. The policy brief is distributed to relevant ministries and various directorates/departments including public representatives both at national and regional levels, academia, civil society, NGOs and other allied organisations.

BHW reviewed health-related news that is published in six mainstream daily newspapers (3 Bangla, 3 English) to capture health related news items and create a resource from which issues can be identified for research and advocacy. The scanning was carried out in terms of themes. Monthly analytical reports were developed on different aspects of health issues and posted on BHW’s Facebook page.

BHW carried out a study on fear and stigma related to COVID-19. Based on that study BHW launched a well-designed outreach communication campaign to sensitize the wider population against fear and stigma related to Covid-19. The campaign targeted potentially stigmatized people, those who make people stigmatized, and support groups like local administration, political agencies, BGMEA and BKMEA. This initiative was a series of online-based campaign programs that included video spots and other static materials.

Semi-Annual Reports are available in this section.

Annual Reports are available in this section.

Strategic Planning Reports can be found here.

Bangladesh Health Watch Mid Term reports are available in this section

Bangladesh Health Watch Impact Report

BHW's End Project Evaluation Reports are available in this section.

BHW's Project Completion Report is available in this section.

BHW One Pager

Media Monitoring Report, Media campaign report on COVID-19, BHW One Pager

BHW Project Phase 1 Mid-term Report and Project-end Evaluation Report are available in this section

BHW Semi-Annual, Annual and Project Completion Reports are available in this section.

Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) believes that empowered media is essential for driving accountability and transparency in the health sector. By providing capacity-building training, BHW equips journalists with the skills and knowledge to report on complex health rights issues. They can help uncover systemic challenges and dig down the health corruption issue through their investigative reports. BHW organizes capacity-building trainings every year. The reports of the training are as follows:

Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) conducts capacity-building training for Health Rights Youth Forum members to empower the youths to be future advocates. If these youths are equipped with proper knowledge and skills then they can carry out health rights advocacy activity effectively. So far BHW has provided them with gender training, life skills training, sexual and reproductive health rights training, etc. Some of the trainings are as follows: