A team of scientists from academic institutions and ministry of health programme managers developed research proposals for implementation research at a workshop in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 23 to 27 June 2012.
The workshop was conducted by the WHO headquarters and Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, with participants from six institutions from Egypt, Morocco and Sudan, to build capacity in research proposal development.
Implementation research in child health is research which aims at improving population access to efficacious child health interventions, by developing practical solutions to common problems which are critical for the implementation of these interventions. This research therefore addresses barriers to the delivery of interventions and, as such, is a key priority for child public health programmes.
This activity followed a regional consultation held in Cairo from 11 to 12 July 2011 which had identified priorities in implementation research to scale up newborn and child health interventions to reduce child mortality in Egypt.
Following a call for letters of intent for implementation research in these priority areas after the consultation, a few institutions which had submitted them were eventually selected and invited to this workshop to develop the full research proposal.
The proposals developed concerned community-based behavioural change interventions to improve family care-seeking practices and utilization of health care services for sick newborns and the effect of e-health —a tele-approach to continuing medical education—on the performance of health care providers managing sick under-five children in remote areas.
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Consultation on country support to strengthen capacity for the identification of priorities for implementation research to scale up newborn and child health interventions to reduce child mortality in Egypt, 11–12 July 2011
Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4
A team of scientists from academic institutions and ministry of health programme managers developed research proposals for implementation research at a workshop in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 23 to 27 June 2012.
The workshop was conducted by the WHO headquarters and Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, with participants from six institutions from Egypt, Morocco and Sudan, to build capacity in research proposal development.
Implementation research in child health is research which aims at improving population access to efficacious child health interventions, by developing practical solutions to common problems which are critical for the implementation of these interventions. This research therefore addresses barriers to the delivery of interventions and, as such, is a key priority for child public health programmes.
This activity followed a regional consultation held in Cairo from 11 to 12 July 2011 which had identified priorities in implementation research to scale up newborn and child health interventions to reduce child mortality in Egypt.
Following a call for letters of intent for implementation research in these priority areas after the consultation, a few institutions which had submitted them were eventually selected and invited to this workshop to develop the full research proposal.
The proposals developed concerned community-based behavioural change interventions to improve family care-seeking practices and utilization of health care services for sick newborns and the effect of e-health —a tele-approach to continuing medical education—on the performance of health care providers managing sick under-five children in remote areas.
Related links
Consultation on country support to strengthen capacity for the identification of priorities for implementation research to scale up newborn and child health interventions to reduce child mortality in Egypt, 11–12 July 2011
Identifying priorities for child health research to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4
