Overview
Implementation research (IR) is important for designing strategies or solutions to overcome bottlenecks that prevent proven and innovative public health interventions from reaching the people who need them. This ensure that these interventions are used in a manner that results in the outcome for which they were intended. Such solutions include how to overcome barriers to adoption of drugs, diagnostics or preventive measures that improve health for people at risk of malaria, tuberculosis, NTDs or other infectious diseases. IR can help to ensure that health solutions reach the people who need them and are used in ways that generate intended results.
Course
This course is a step-by-step online training for public health researchers and decision-makers, disease control programme managers, academics and others that focuses on how to design and demonstrate robust IR projects to improve control of infectious diseases of poverty and generate better health outcomes.
Experts guide participants through the core concepts of IR, including modules that address how to:
- Identify the challenges of various health settings.
- Assess the appropriateness of existing disease control strategies.
- Develop new interventions and strategies by working with communities and stakeholders.
- Specify IR questions.
- Design rigorous research projects. This includes how to identify IR outcomes, evaluate effectiveness, and make plans to scale-up implementation in real-life settings.
The goal of the course is to build capacity in how to identify the challenges of various health settings, assess the appropriateness of existing strategies, and develop new interventions and strategies by working with communities and stakeholders.
The MOOC was developed in English, French and Spanish. Translations into Chinese, Russian and Arabic are under way.
What you’ll learn
- the core concepts of implementation research
- how to identify the challenges of various contexts
- how to assess the appropriateness of existing implementation strategies
- how to develop innovative and more effective implementation stategies by working with communities and multiple stakeholders
- how to formulate your implementation research question, to operationalize your variables and to design rigorous research projects
- how to define your implementation research outcomes and evaluate the effectiveness of your implementation strategies
- and finally how to plan the scale up of your intervention given a robust implementation strategy
Requirements
- A general knowledge of public issues in your country may be an advantage.
- Participants from all educational backgrounds are welcome, with priority given to those with a health-related background.
2025 session of the TDR MOOC 2.0 Implementation Research (SEAR – Facilitated)
The 2025 session of the TDR MOOC 2.0, featuring two live sessions, focuses on Implementation Research on infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. This programme is organized by the Center for Tropical Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), a TDR-supported Regional Training Centre under the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).
Key Dates:
- Classes Start: Aug 25, 2025
- Classes End: Oct 22, 2025
SCHEDULE FOR IR MOOC SESSIONS
| African Region | 7 April – June 2 | French |
| African Region | 7 April – June 2 6 October – 1 December |
English |
| Western Pacific Region | 21 April – 16 June | English |
| Eastern Mediterranean Region | 9 June – 4 August | French |
| South-East Asia Region | 25 August – 20 October | English |
| Region of the Americas | 1 September – 27 October | Spanish |
| European Region | 29 September – 24 November | Russian |
| Eastern Mediterranean Region | 1 October – 26 November | Arabic |
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