Title |
Designing and measuring the progress and impact of health research capacity strengthening initiatives
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Published in |
BMC Proceedings, December 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/1753-6561-9-s10-s9 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Imelda Bates |
Abstract |
Strengthening capacity in poorer countries to generate multi-disciplinary health research and to utilise research findings, is one of the most effective ways of advancing the countries' health and development. This paper explores current knowledge about how to design health research capacity strengthening (RCS) programmes and how to measure their progress and impact. It describes a systematic, evidence-based approach for designing such programmes and highlights some of the key challenges that will be faced in the next 10 years. These include designing and implementing common frameworks to facilitate comparisons among capacity strengthening projects, and developing monitoring indicators that can capture their interactions with knowledge users and their impact on changes in health systems. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Sierra Leone | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 22 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 7 | 30% |
Student > Master | 4 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 17% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 1 | 4% |
Other | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 4 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 10 | 43% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 17% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 13% |
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 5 | 22% |