Course content

This short course will provide participants with the conceptual understanding and practical tools to design, implement and evaluate equitable, effective and sustainable research capacity strengthening (RCS) activities. The focus will primarily be on RCS activities delivered within the context of research partnerships. The content will be relevant to a wide audience, including those who fund, lead, deliver and evaluate research partnerships (e.g. leaders and members of research consortia, workstream leads, project managers, early- and mid-career researchers) that seek to strengthen research capacity whether as a primary or secondary objective.

Teaching approaches:

• Presentations/lectures introducing the concepts and principles
• Interactive question and answer (Q&A) and shared learning sessions
• Case studies
• Pre- and post-session reading (recommended, not required)

Tutor Biography

Prof. Imelda Bates https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/professor-imelda-bates

Prof. Bates, Chair in Clinical Tropical Haematology and head of LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research (CCR) which is at the forefront of research into how to design, measure and evaluate programmes to strengthen research capacity and laboratory systems in LMICs. She also has a research focus on anaemia and blood transfusion systems in LMICs particularly on evidence to improve the supply and use of blood for transfusion.

Dr Justin Pulford https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-justin-pulford

Dr Pulford is a Reader in Global Health and deputy head of LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research (CCR).  He has published widely on the topic of ‘research capacity strengthening’, is a behavioural scientist by training and has worked extensively throughout the South Pacific and across sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Nadia Tagoe

Dr Tagoe is a Research Manager, Researcher, and Adjunct Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and an Honorary Lecturer at LSTM. Her research interest is in global health policy and practice, with a current focus on capacity development and health research systems and practice. She holds a PhD in Development Policy and Practice (Global Health) from Open University in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK.