Bangladesh Health Research & Implementation Initiative (BHRI) provides ethical, structured, and transparent research support for students, independent researchers, research teams, institutions, and collaborating organizations. Our programs include institutional research affiliation, comprehensive support for one complete research project, one-year research mentorship, and project-specific research collaboration.
BHRI supports researchers who require credible institutional affiliation, comprehensive technical support, structured research training, or an implementation partner. All programs operate according to scientific integrity, ethical responsibility, transparency, accountability, academic independence, and equitable access.
For researchers who need an approved institutional research affiliation.
Duration: One year
Renewable annually after review
Does not constitute employment or faculty appointment
Does not include technical execution of a project
For applicants requiring comprehensive beginning-to-end support for one approved research project.
One complete approved project
Project planning through publication support
Scope and deliverables confirmed before commencement
Additional projects require separate approval
For students and independent researchers seeking structured research and publication training.
Duration: One year
Beginning-to-end research education
Individual development plan and milestones
Complete publication support where progress is achieved within the active mentorship period
For investigators and institutions seeking BHRI as a scientific, field, technical, or implementation collaborator.
Project-specific arrangement
May include data collection, site coordination, implementation, analysis, or dissemination
Cost determined from the agreed responsibilities and project budget
Requires a written collaboration agreement
✔ Student Researchers
✔ Independent Researchers
✔ Research teams
✔ Institutions
✔ International applicants
✔ Commercial or industry applicants where appropriate
✔ Approved institutional research affiliation
✔ Permission to state the approved BHRI affiliation
✔ Formal affiliation letter or certificate
✔ Participation in eligible BHRI activities
✔ Access to eligible institutional resources
✔ Valid for one year
✔ Student Researcher renewal: BDT 1,000 annually
✔ All other categories: BDT 2,000 annually
✔ Renewal subject to institutional review
✔ Renewal is not automatic
✔ Protocol development
✔ Statistical analysis
✔ Manuscript preparation
✔ Field data collection
✔ Research mentorship
✔ ERC review fees
✔ Project implementation
✔ Guaranteed authorship, publication, or funding
BHRI provides comprehensive technical and scholarly support for one approved research project. The precise deliverables, responsibilities, timeline, dataset, principal research output, and publication-support arrangements are documented in a written Scope of Work before the project commences.
✔ Research-topic and question refinement
✔ Literature-review planning
✔ Study design and methodology
✔ Protocol development
✔ Sample-size and sampling planning
✔ Data-collection instruments
✔ ERC or IRB submission preparation
✔ Data-management planning
✔ Statistical analysis
✔ Interpretation of findings
✔ Tables and figures
✔ Manuscript development
✔ Journal selection
✔ Submission preparation
✔ Responses to peer reviewers
One project ordinarily means one approved research question or protocol, one principal dataset, one primary statistical analysis plan, and one principal manuscript or agreed research output. Derivative manuscripts, additional datasets, major redesigns, new research questions, repeated substantial revisions, or work outside the approved Scope of Work may require separate assessment and additional fees.
Fieldwork, laboratory testing, travel, publication charges, software licences, translation, transcription, regulatory charges, and other third-party expenses are not included unless expressly stated in the approved Scope of Work.
BHRI shall make reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of consultation materials and information, subject to applicable legal, ethical, and organizational requirements.
BHRI provides legitimate scientific, methodological, analytical, and publication support. BHRI does not fabricate or manipulate data, guarantee predetermined findings, undertake undisclosed academic work, or provide assistance that violates institutional or academic-integrity requirements.
The BHRI Research Mentorship Program is a structured one-year program that teaches participants how to develop, conduct, analyse, write, and publish responsible research. Participants receive individualized guidance, scheduled mentorship, milestone-based review, and supervised support throughout the research process.
✔ Student Researchers
✔ Independent Researchers
Where a participant develops a research project or manuscript to the required standard within the active one-year mentorship period, BHRI will provide complete support through the applicable research-writing and publication stages occurring during that period.
Important Limitations
✔ Publication and journal acceptance cannot be guaranteed
✔ Support is limited to the approved mentorship project
✔ Participants remain responsible for learning, participation, and completion of assigned work
✔ Mentorship does not transfer academic responsibility to BHRI
✔ Work continuing after the one-year term may require an extension or new arrangement
BHRI collaborates with eligible investigators, research teams, universities, healthcare institutions, non-governmental organizations, funders, and other organizations on research aligned with BHRI’s mission and institutional capacity.
✔ Collaborative protocol development
✔ Study-site identification
✔ Field data collection
✔ Recruitment and participant coordination
✔ Data-collector training
✔ Field supervision and quality assurance
✔ Local implementation support
✔ Data management
✔ Statistical or methodological input
✔ Stakeholder engagement
✔ Manuscript and dissemination activities
✔ Other project-specific scientific or operational responsibilities
Every approved collaboration shall be governed by a written agreement defining the parties’ roles, deliverables, budget, payment arrangements, ethical and regulatory responsibilities, data ownership and access, confidentiality, intellectual property, publication procedures, authorship expectations, project duration, and termination arrangements.
BHRI shall make reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of materials and information, subject to applicable legal, ethical, and organizational requirements.
The Program Fee Structure is presented below.
Fee schedule effective from 1 August 2026. BHRI reserves the right to revise the fee schedule periodically.
The applicable fees will be those in effect on the date a complete submission is received.
Step 1 - Submission & Administrative Processing
A non-refundable Application Fee must accompany every new application submitted to a BHRI Research Support Program.
This fee covers:
✔ Administrative screening
✔ Registration
✔ Preliminary eligibility assessment
✔ Document management
✔ Initial correspondence with investigators
✔ Applications will proceed to administrative screening only after payment of the applicable Application Fee.
Step 2 - Program Approval
Following successful administrative screening and confirmation that the application is eligible for participation in the requested program, Applicants will be requested to pay the Remaining Program Fee according to the applicable category.
✔ The Application Fee is non-refundable once administrative screening has commenced.
✔ The Remaining Program Fee is generally non-refundable once the approved program has formally commenced.
✔ Where BHRI determines, prior to commencement of the approved program, that the application falls outside the scope of BHRI Research Support Programs or cannot proceed for administrative reasons, BHRI may refund the Remaining Program Fee while retaining the Application Fee to cover administrative costs.
BHRI is committed to supporting ethically sound research that serves the public interest.
BHRI may, at its discretion, approve partial or full fee waivers for:
✔ Unfunded student research
✔ Public health emergency research
✔ Humanitarian research
✔ Investigator-initiated research with demonstrated financial hardship
✔ Other exceptional circumstances considered to be in the public interest
Requests for fee waivers must be submitted in writing with appropriate justification at the time of application submission. Approval of fee waivers is entirely at the discretion of BHRI.
✔ Payment of application or program fees does not influence the assessment of applications or any program-related decision made by BHRI.
✔ All applications are assessed independently and objectively in accordance with the BHRI Organizational Charter, Governance & Research Policy Manual, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and applicable organizational policies.
✔ BHRI maintains complete independence in all program decisions regardless of the source or amount of funding.
BHRI is committed to promoting ethical authorship and academic independence.
Payment of application or program fees for participation in any BHRI Research Support Program shall not create any entitlement to:
✔ Authorship
✔ Co-authorship
✔ Acknowledgement
✔ Publication
✔ Institutional endorsement of research findings
✔ Favorable consideration within any BHRI program
Likewise, BHRI shall not request, expect, or require authorship, co-authorship, or acknowledgement solely in exchange for:
✔ Institutional affiliation
✔ Consultation
✔ Mentorship
✔ Administrative support
✔ Educational resources
✔ Research guidance
✔ Payment of administrative fees
Authorship shall be determined solely according to substantial scholarly contributions and internationally accepted publication standards.
Nothing in this Program Fee Structure shall be interpreted as creating an academic, contractual, or authorship relationship between BHRI and any applicant beyond the scope of the approved Research Support Program.
Research Collaboration does not have a standard fixed fee. BHRI will prepare a project-specific budget or cost-sharing proposal based on the agreed scientific, technical, administrative, field, staffing, logistical, and publication responsibilities.
