Public health, research and surveillance officers from the national TB programme discuss development of protocols during the workshop
The Ministry of Health of Iraq, with the technical support of WHO, organized an operational research methodology and proposal development workshop for 15 participants from Iraq's tuberculosis (TB) control programme from 24 to 28 June 2012 in Jordan. The participants included public health, research and surveillance officers of the national TB programme.
The objectives of the workshop were to develop protocols addressing the challenges facing tuberculosis control and strengthen research capacity of national disease control programmes. The workshop covered basic principles of epidemiologic methodology, data analysis and surveillance, and operational research proposal development.
Research protocols were developed during the 5-day workshop. During the protocol developmental process, each section of the protocol was peer-reviewed by a panel of experts and the participants. The protocols address key challenges facing tuberculosis control with the goal of improving programme performance through operational research.
