Introduction to Infectious Disease Interventional Studies
August 3, 2020
How to recognize an unmet need in a disease process.
How to set up a database to answer the unmet need.
How the answer to the unmet need will improve knowledge of the disease process.
Vaccines and Anti-Microbial Resistance
August 4, 2020
Understanding vaccine acceptance and barriers and facilitators to vaccine up-take within a historical and socio-cultural context.
Understanding concepts of community engagement and social mobilization as strategies to provide communities with information to help in informed decision-making.
Understanding barriers and facilitators to AMR stewardship programs in both community and hospital settings and the potential for integrating education, outreach, and advocacy to increase optimization of antibiotic use and vaccine up-take.
Mixed Methods Study Design Development
August 4, 2020
Understand the rationale for using mixed methods research and its specific benefits for conducting global health research.
Describe the three basic mixed methods designs and their appropriate utilization.
Recognize challenges unique to implementation of the mixed methods approach and methods for overcoming these.
Design and Implementation of Trials: Setting your Research Up for Successful Data Collection
August 5, 2020
Identify ways in which the type of trial influences how data collection systems are designed.
Identify structure of databases that allow for integration of clinical and laboratory data in trials.
Understand how guidelines for GCP dictate the structure and access to study databases during and after trial completion.
Ethics of Immediate Research During Emergency Disasters: Conduct During Outbreak Investigations
August 6, 2020
Identify what activities are considered surveillance and what is considered research for ethical considerations.
Review the core principles of ethics in relation to emergencies.
Identify ethical considerations in research during outbreaks.
Harmonizing Research and Clinical Experiences
August 6, 2020
To understand the fundamental concepts and the differences and linkage between basic science, translational and clinical research, with emphasis on COVID-19.
To enhance the ability to build a crucial framework essential for any pathway in research, plan and formulate research objectives and choose a topic of interest related to COVID-19.
To be able to contextualize and link clinical experience to basic science or clinical research or trial, recognize hurdles and facilitate implementation of a successful COVID-19 research project.
Building a Research Based Diagnostic Portfolio for Novel Infectious Disease Research
August 7, 2020
Review basic science and epidemiological methods for identifying and organizing data in the early phase of a novel infectious disease outbreak.
Identify what types of data are useful for characterizing the clinical presentation, transmission patterns, and response to therapy for novel infections.
Understand the importance of surveillance data and collaborations for continued tracking of epidemics and pandemics.
