Book Release: "From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low Income Countries"

"From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low Income Countries" published by The University Press Limited was recently launched. The book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about both the problems and the opportunities involved in effectively scaling up health programs. The book is a collection of articles submitted to the International Conference on Scaling Up Health Programs, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December 2008.

This edited volume is comprised of 17 chapters, two of which focus specifically on BRAC's efforts and successes in scaling up maternal health programs as well as the rural tuberculosis program.

In the foreword, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, Sir Fazle Abed, writes, "the problems of poverty and disease are immense, therefore so should be the scale of the solutions." This edited-volume takes a deep look at many of the health care problems faced by the world's poorest, and provides a framework for understanding the challenges and opportunities within the field.

"From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low Income Countries" has been released in Bangladesh, Germany and Switzerland and was edited by:

• Richard A. Cash: Senior Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health,Visiting Professor at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University; BRAC USA Board Member
• A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, Professor at Columbia University in New York
• George B. Smith, Food Systems Expert
• Faruque Ahmed, Director of the BRAC Health Program