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Students & emerging researchers
Build proof of research ability through defined roles, mentorship, reproducible work, and verified contributions.
Find a role → Building the founding network · Bangladesh ↔ Global
Research talent is everywhere.
Opportunity should be too.
BIBHA Institute—the Bangladesh Institute for Brain Health and Analytics—is a proposed research operating system connecting Bangladesh’s emerging scientists with local and diaspora mentors through focused four-month computational projects.
01 No-PHI pilot first02 Contribution-aware credit03 Governed access by design
BIBHAINSTITUTE
BDDhakaStudents · faculty · clinics
USBostonMethods · mentorship
UKLondonGenomics · statistics
CATorontoImaging · aging
TERM 01 · PROPOSED PILOT3–5 focused projects
THE PREMISE
Stop making every researcher begin again.
Each BIBHA project should leave behind a reusable evidence base—protocols, code, figures, null results, decisions, and next questions—so progress compounds.
One network · three entry points
A place to contribute,
lead, and build capacity.
BIBHA Institute is designed around real research roles and accountable outputs—not passive networking or credential collection.
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PIs & diaspora mentors
Form strong cross-border teams around answerable questions—without rebuilding recruitment and project operations every time.
Lead a project →⌂
Hospitals & research partners
Create a governed pathway from institutional questions to capable teams, controlled analysis, and locally meaningful evidence.
Explore partnership →The four-month research term
Short enough to finish.
Serious enough to matter.
Every project begins with a question, a contribution charter, and a closeout artifact—not a vague promise to collaborate.
16 WEEKS · COMPUTATIONAL FIRST01ScopeQuestion + analysis plan
02FormPI recruits a role-based team
03DeliverWeekly work + milestone reviews
04CloseOutput + contribution record
05ContinueVersioned Continuation Pack
Interactive platform walkthrough
Follow one project
from match to momentum.
STEP 01 / RESEARCHER EXPERIENCE
A focused project finds the right people
94% profile match · Neuroimaging
Mapping cerebrovascular burden in South Asian aging
Build a reproducible MRI marker pipeline and test associations with cognition using an approved, de-identified training cohort.
FRDr. Farzana RahmanUniversity of Toronto · PI
6–8hours / week3open roles16weeks
The BIBHA difference
Publication is an outcome.
Continuity is an obligation.
Journal timelines can be slow. The next researcher should not wait months to understand what was tried, what worked, and which question comes next.
Help shape the Continuity Library →Cerebrovascular burden
in South Asian aging
PROJECT BIBHA-NI-001 · CLOSED
01 Locked analysis plan ✓02 Reproducible code ✓03 Figures + QC decisions ✓04 Null and sensitivity results ✓05 Next-question map ✓
Trust before scale
A research commons must
earn the right to grow.
The first release is intentionally a no-PHI network pilot. Proposed hospital, cohort, and clinical partnerships remain proposals until written and independently governed.
No pay-to-authorship
Membership can support the platform; it never purchases project access, data access, or authorship.
Bangladeshi leadership
Studies using Bangladeshi data require meaningful local scientific leadership, interpretation, and capacity transfer.
Minimum necessary access
A dataset catalog may be visible; row-level data is released only after project, ethics, training, and custodian approvals.
Contribution before prestige
CRediT-style records document who designed, coded, analyzed, visualized, supervised, and wrote each output.
WHAT THIS RELEASE WILL NOT DO
Collect clinical or participant dataAccept CV or identity-document uploadsSell access to datasets or authorshipRepresent proposed partners as confirmed
A proof-gated path
The hospital is the horizon.
Trust is the first infrastructure.
BIBHA Institute should progress only when governance, scientific quality, participant protection, institutional capacity, and sustainable funding are demonstrated at the prior stage.
Now
Network pilot
Verified members, mentors, and 3–5 no-PHI computational projects
6–24 months
Cohort pilot
Written partnerships, ethics, consent, trained staff, and validated systems
Years 2–5
Research commons
Longitudinal quality, secure workspaces, and stable institutional funding
Years 4–10+
Clinical research pathway
Registries, trials capability, neuroscience center, then earned hospital feasibility
Founding network registry
If this future should exist,
help us shape it.
Register your interest as a learner, researcher, mentor, institutional partner, supporter, or prospective study-community advisor.
Minimum information only.No clinical data, CVs, publications, identity documents, or payment details are requested here. Read the privacy notice →
Built for critique
What would make you trust—and use—BIBHA?
This release exists to turn assumptions into evidence. Tell us what is unclear, missing, risky, or most valuable.