WELCOME TO EPRC
Environment and Population Research Centre (EPRC) was established by Prof. Dr. Bilqis Amin Hoque in October 1998.
EPRC is a multi-disciplinary research, development, education, training, capacity building and networking non-government and not-for-profit organization.
EPRC has implemented improved quality projects aimed at poor and vulnerable communities in unserved, underserved, and hard-to-reach areas, with a particular emphasis on youth, women and children.
The organization is undertaking various components of development across a wide range of sectors; Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Environmental Resource Management, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), Waste & Wastewater Management, Food Security & Nutrition, Smart Agriculture (Organic Farming, Satellite Irrigation), Forestry, Fisheries, Education & ICT, Social Safety-Net, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Air Quality, Sustainable Infrastructure, Green Energy, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation as well as related social and policy issues at local, regional, and global levels.
Tribute to the Founding Executive President
Prof. Dr. Bilqis Amin Hoque, the Founder and Executive President of the Environment and Population Research Centre (EPRC), was a distinguished scientist of both national and international repute. She passed away on August 1, 2023, at a hospital in Kansas, USA, where she had been receiving advanced medical treatment. She was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka following two funeral prayers, and was buried in the same grave of her parents.
Born in 1954, Prof. Bilqis completed her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from Dr. Khastagir Government Girls’ High School in Chittagong and her Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) from Government Carmichael College in Rangpur. She graduated in Agricultural Engineering from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, under the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, becoming the first woman graduate from that faculty. She later pursued her Master’s degree in the United Kingdom under the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University, USA. In recognition of her outstanding doctoral research, she was awarded the Altrusa International Foundation Scholarship in 1983.
