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Community and Public Health Nursing in Bangladesh

During the 2011-12 winter break, undergraduate nursing students and physical therapy students in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences visited Bangladesh for a course focused on population health. The course is offered in collaboration with the International University of Business, Agriculture and Technology, College of Nursing, Uttara. Prof. Rycki Maltby leads the trip. Watch a slideshow of photos contributed by Prof. Maltby and students.

Led by their Bangladeshi tour guides and friends, the nursing and physical therapy students walk down the steep slope leading to a sacred lake in Srimongol, Bangladesh.

Students slip and stumble through the jungle in Srimongol, Bangladesh.

Students squeeze into the back of a Tempo on the way back into town.

Students at an all-girls primary school go through their morning routine.

Undergraduate nursing and graduate physical therapy students who traveled to Bangladesh in January 2012 for their Community and Public Health course.

A CNHS nursing student administers a shot to a child.

Outdoor market in northern Bangladesh. As part of the course students assessed communities on different apsects of health, one factor being access to fresh produce.

Workers in a local brickyard nimbly transport recently baked bricks to be stacked and distributed throughout the country.

CNHS students are introduced to a classroom full of students.

Coal is transported via boat on one of the various waterways outside of Uttara, Dhaka.

A UVM nursing student and an IUB business student get a rickshaw ride through a rural village near Noadinghy, Bangladesh.

Students survey the goods at a street market.

Students traveled to rural and urban areas of Bangladesh and were encouraged to meet and learn from locals. Here, a market vendor has given Megan Corbett a fresh coconut as a refreshment.

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Last modified July 12 2012 11:14 AM