Adapting operational research training to the Rwandan context: the Intermediate Operational Research Training programme

Adapting operational research training to the Rwandan context: the Intermediate Operational Research Training programme

BACKGROUND Promoting national health research agendas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) requires adequate numbers of individuals with skills to initiate and conduct research. Recently, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have joined research capacity building efforts to increase research leadership by LMIC nationals. Partners In Health, an international NGO operating in Rwanda, impl...

Public Health Action Operational research training: the course and beyond

ing programmes on OR, and large numbers of tuberculosis (TB) programme and laboratory staff have been trained in OR methods. This has produced many protocols, but few published articles.2 Another example is the International TB Training Course in Japan. Over a 7-year period between 2001 and 2007, 28 participants developed OR projects, but none led to the publication of a scientifi c paper.3 New...

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The published research paper: is it an important indicator of successful operational research at programme level?

Is a published research paper an important indicator of successful operational research at programme level in low-income countries? In academia, publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals is highly encouraged and strongly pursued for academic recognition and career progression. In contrast, for those who engage in operational research at programme level, there is often no necessity or rewa...

Operational Research in education

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the individual sectors of education and the institutions within the sectors. Another pertinent issue concer...