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Research is “creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications. The READ focuses on this area and it the core function of it. READ ensures to provide quality research such as surveys, clinical audits, observational and analytical and clinical surveys/research. We have qualified staff holding master and PhD level education from international universities that are specialized in design, implementation and analysis of the studies using the up to date available technologies such as SPSS and STATA. Their work has been published in internationally recognized journals and conferences. Also, we have the mass of quality young data collectors and master trainers who have sufficient experiences in implementation of surveys, assessments and research. The READ uses its international partners to train master trainers who work as qualified staff in executing researches and assessments.

Implementation Research: This is going to be presented to you in five modules.

Module 1. What is implementation research?

Module 2. Needs assessment for implementation research

Module 3. Designing implementation strategies

Module 4. Implementation research outcomes

Module 5. Implementation research in practice

General objectives of this module: 

• To describe the scope, relevance and key characteristics of Implementation Research. 
• To identify the range of areas for application of Implementation Research within the context of a specific intervention. 
• The introduction to implementation research could be found here.
• Session 1: the promises and problems: The objective is to give an overview of proven interventions and persisting infectious diseases problems though examples for malaria, onchocerciasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis and other infectious diseases of poverty.
• Session 2: The living up to the promises (malaria): to present two examples of implementation research in Africa. 1) home-management of malaria (HMM) 2) community-directed interventions (CDI).
• Session 3: living up to the promises (onchocerciasis). The objective of this session is: 1) Home-management of malaria (HMM) 2) Community-directed interventions (CDI).

Advanced Tuberculosis Research Training

The university of Washington is going to launch a research course on Tuberculosis. You can click here to register and can ask for fee waiver to be exempted from the course fee. Also, you can write to the course organizer at kkoon1@uw.edu