Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) is a civil society initiative. It was formed with the objective of monitoring Bangladesh’s progress towards achievement of the goal of good health for all its citizens. The Watch publishes on a yearly basis a report on the state of health in Bangladesh. It also uses other monitoring and advocacy measures such as conferences, meetings, press briefings and media reports to engage all key stakeholders in the health sector. The Centre for Health Systems Studies at the School has been chosen as the Secretariat for the Watch. The Watch formally launched their first report ‘The State of Health in Bangladesh 2006 -Challenges of Achieving Equity in Health’ on December 2006. For the year 2007, BHW has focused on the situation of the ‘Health workforce in Bangladesh’ and has undertaken several studies on the issues of human resources for health. The James P Grant School of Public Health acts as the secretariat to Bangladesh Heath Watch and operates under the Centre for Health Systems Studies of the School.