International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
research · Dhaka
· verified (verified 2026-05-25)
Profile
- Chief executive
- Tahmeed Ahmed (Executive Director)
- Founded
- 1978
- Regulator
- other
- MRA-licensed
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- Active members
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- Loan portfolio
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- Staff
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- Coverage
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Major international health research institute hit hard by 2025 US foreign-aid cuts, which it said provided more than 20% of its annual budget.
Recent activity
- 2025-01-31 funding icddr,b issued termination letters to over 1,000 employees after the US government froze foreign aid and USAID-funded projects were suspended. ↗
Provenance & notes
Roots in the SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (1960); renamed icddr,b in 1978. Tahmeed Ahmed has been Executive Director since 1 February 2021, the first leader from within Bangladesh, succeeding John D. Clemens. Regulator marked 'other': icddr,b operates under a 1978 government ordinance as an international organisation rather than under the NGO Affairs Bureau or MRA. Financials and staff count not verified from a primary annual report.