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Knowledge Hubs

The Global Health Network is designed to help healthcare professionals and health researchers to share knowledge and experience through its online platform and locally led events. The Global Health Network collaborates with researchers and health professionals across the world to foster overlapping and interrelated communities of practice to exchange specialist knowledge, research methodology and findings.

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Global Health Training Centre

The Global Health Training Centre offers free online courses and learning to provide research staff and frontline healthcare workers with of all roles with the ‘how-to’ training materials, resources, seminars, and toolkits required to conduct high-quality research safely and ethically in resource-limited settings.

The courses are certified and peer-reviewed, produced from material donated by respected international partners such as the World Health Organization, and designed to be accessible in areas with slow-speed internet.

Research Tools

The Global Health Network provides free tools and resources to support healthcare professionals and researchers all over the world to conduct high quality research studies.

Professional Development Scheme

The Professional Development Scheme enables you to track your career, helping you to define your strengths and identify areas for development – all supported by the free resources and training available in The Global Health Network.

SiteFinder

SiteFinder connects researchers and institutions with one another and with development organisations and funders to foster collaboration in health research projects across the world.

Process Map

The Process Map offers interactive step-by-step guidance to setting up and leading successful research projects – all supported by the free resources and training available in The Global Health Network.

Research In Focus

Global Health Research In Focus is a bi-monthly public lecture brought to you by The Global Health Network, featuring prominent speakers in global health research. This series spans research disciplines, regions, and therapeutic areas, and celebrates advances and achievements towards more, faster and better research for health.

Please stay tuned for upcoming events.

| Recent In-Focus Lectures |

Understanding the gendered dimensions of COVID-19

Pandemics, including COVID-19, are not gender neutral. Evidence shows that the current COVID-19 pandemic is differentially affecting men, women, and people of other genders – both in terms of immediate primary effects and more long term secondary effects. This webinar will discuss the gendered dimensions of COVID-19 in three country contexts, drawing on evidence from two gender and COVID projects working across nine contexts.

Health Benefit Packages for Universal Health Coverage: How can research inform policy and practice?

Health Benefit Packages (HBPs) are an important part of the health resource allocation decision-making process for national policy-makers in many low- and middle-income countries. HBPs are used to help determine which healthcare interventions and services should be classified as ‘essential’, and inform how to prioritise often limited health resources. However, HBPs can often be disconnected from budget realities and result in HBPs which far exceed available resources, making them challenging to implement fully. Recent research carried out in Malawi, has sought to develop new methods to address this challenge and support national policy-makers.

How to collect birth defects data using the Global Birth Defects Description and Coding App

Dr. Leke Aminkeng, Research Associate in Birth Defects; Prof. Helen Dolk, Professor of Epidemiology & Health Services Research; Katy Karnell, Research Assistant; Ulster University

This lecture to mark World Birth Defects Day focuses on surveillance and monitoring of birth defects and launches the Global Birth Defects Description and Coding App, a free surveillance tool for data recording. This lecture is held in partnership with Global Birth Defects.

Why is it important for health researchers to engage school students?

Dr Alun Davies, School Engagement Lead at KEMRI | Wellcome Trust Research Programme.

In this lecture launching the mesh school engagement theme, Alun outlined the goals, methods and outcomes of school engagement as a “win-win” engagement approach for both researchers and students. This lecture drew on experiences and reflections from KEMRI | Wellcome’s School Engagement Programme and from an international practitioner’s workshop. Read more about Alun’s work here.

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