Training in eight low-and middle-income countries: lessons learned from a pilot study using the WHO-TDR dissemination and implementation massive open online course
Ashlin Rakhra, Cole Hooley, Meredith P. Fort, Mary Beth Weber, LeShawndra Price, Hoa L. Nguyen, Manuel Ramirez, Adamson S. Muula, Mina Hosseinipour, Kingsley Apusiga, Victor Davila-Roman, Joyce Gyamfi, Kezia Gladys Amaning Adjei, Josephine Andesia, Annette Fitzpatrick, Pascal Launois, Ana A. Baumann · 2024
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Ashlin Rakhra and a large team of co-authors published this study in 2023. It reports a pilot of a free online course that teaches researchers in poorer countries how to spread and apply research findings. The course came from a World Health Organization program and ran during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The learners were researchers from a consortium working on long-term diseases in eight low- and middle-income countries. Of 247 enrolled, only thirty-two finished every requirement, and twenty-one gave full before-and-after surveys. Those who finished showed a clear rise in self-rated skill scores. Grant and paper writing crept up slightly. Few had a research mentor, and fewer still a mentor in this specialty. Shaky internet and the pandemic itself blocked many. The authors still judge the course workable and suggest richer topics and peer links next time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ashlin Rakhra, Cole Hooley, Meredith P. Fort, Mary Beth Weber, LeShawndra Price, Hoa L. Nguyen, Manuel Ramirez, Adamson S. Muula, Mina Hosseinipour, Kingsley Apusiga, Victor Davila-Roman, Joyce Gyamfi, Kezia Gladys Amaning Adjei, Josephine Andesia, Annette Fitzpatrick, Pascal Launois, Ana A. Baumann |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |