ISRT faculty members Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, Mrs. Jahida Gulshan, Dr. Hasinur Rahaman Khan and Dr. Lutfor Rahman have attended the “Workshop on Quantitative Methods for Public Health Researchers of SAARC countries” arranged by International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the University of Calcutta from December 28-30, 2016. The venue was Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta. The objective of the workshop was to provide public health researchers from SAARC countries exposure to basic concepts of Biostatistics and Quantitative Epidemiology with a major focus on implementing these concepts through the use of R.