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During this workshop, a panel of domestic and international experts in global health, research training, implementation research, and related disciplines will explore challenges to and opportunities for advancing implementation research training and capacity development in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Sessions will cover the following topics:
Early Stage Investigator (ESI)* Presentation Opportunity
To assure the inclusion of ESI perspectives, the workshop planning committee accepted applications from ESIs interested in presenting innovative, feasible, and sustainable research capacity building models that address the challenges and opportunities in implementation research for heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
The top three submitted meritorious models were selected for presentation in the workshop on Monday, November 16, 2020 and the ESIs making those presentations were invited to participate as speakers in all workshop discussions. In addition, submitted models by other ESI applicants that were deemed meritorious were included in a virtual poster presentation.
* Eligibility was based on NIH’s ESI definition: “A Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) who has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award“ (NIH Reference: https://grants.nih.gov/policy/early-investigators/index.htm).
Please contact Makeda Williams, Ph.D., MPH, NHLBI Global Health Program Director, at CTRISGrants@nih.gov with any questions about the workshop or ESI Application Call.
To view the workshop agenda please visit the event page.
In this recording of the November 2, 2020 keynote session of the workshop, Salim Yusuf, MD, DPhil, MRCP, Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada discussed the importance of conducting clinical and population research in LMICs; challenges in health research and health in LMICs; regional, cultural and international barriers to health research; and potential opportunities and successful examples of research capacity building initiatives in LMICs. Professor Yusuf emphasized the need for developing research career opportunities and implementing a “coordinated, tailored and evolving strategy” for building research capacity in LMICs.
In this recording of the November 18, 2020 keynote session of the workshop, Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD, Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda, discussed the status of implementation research in LMICs, the challenges faced, and mechanisms to overcome challenges. She discussed the need for implementation research to implement evidence-based interventions, examined challenges preventing IR in LMICs, explored how sustainable implementation research could be incorporated into the health sector of LMICs, and provided an example of an implementation research project in the LMIC context. Professor Binagwaho highlighted transferable lessons for conducting implementation research in LMICs, and how these implementation research lessons can strengthen health systems.
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