Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
American Institute of Bangladesh Studies American Institute of Bangladesh Studies American Institute of Bangladesh Studies is a United States based think tank and research institute that studies Bangladesh and related topics. It provides funding to scholars and students who are conducting research on Bangladesh. American Institute of Bangladesh Studies was founded in 1989 by Professor Craig Baxter of Juniata College. Its founding was supported by professors from the Columbia University, Glassboro State College, Pennsylvania State University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin. The institute signed an agreement with the government of Bangladesh through which the government of Bangladesh provided financial aid