The Global Health Research Collaborative, which seeks to expand quality global health education to local and foreign professionals early in their careers, is now accepting applications for the 2022 session.
The Global Health Research Collaborative, offered by the Wayne State University School of Medicine, strives to develop a network of highly-trained global health researchers who will conduct research aimed at improving the health, capacity development, and evaluate and monitor evidence-based interventions for health problems in their own nations.
“The collaborative aims to spread awareness that it is crucial for young researchers to develop international collaboration, conduct ethical research, gain knowledge to push for action, and emphasize the importance of global health research to graduate students,” said director Vijaya Kumar, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine.
The GHRC was created to ensure facilitation of global health research across a worldwide network that provides distinct advantages. These include supervision for research under individuals who understand their community sociologically, ease of communication and connection between professionals global and development of unique global health research education platforms that provide an unprecedented level of practicum training.
The workshop will be taught by faculty from Wayne State University and health care institutions such as the Detroit Medical Center and Henry Ford Health System. The workshop will provide participants with a substructure of global health research, encourage communication between faculty and participants, create a global network for faculty and researchers to connect, and develop leaders who will guide and assist with the flourishing of future collaborative work. The program will be presented in a broad-to-specific manner, which includes an introduction of core content that covers the foundations of research that includes but is not limited to clinical designs, library sciences and epidemiology. The workshop will shift to more specific specialty topics such as emergency medicine, maternal and child health, behavioral health and communicable diseases.
Before the course, participants will complete a series of online preparatory course modules requiring approximately 10 to 12 hours completed at their own pace. During the interactive live sessions, students will participate in case studies, discussions, lectures, exchange of experiences with colleagues and will apply the skills learned through the online courses. Problem-solving will be done in group sessions.
The GHRC team will host the summer workshop through an online course platform called Thinkific from June 27 through Aug. 13. All workshop-related activities, including streaming video lectures, mentorship meetings, synchronous sessions with the faculty and networking events, will be hosted by the GHRC team within the Thinkific platform. The cost of workshop for a single applicant is $249. There are several scholarships available to cover some course fees for participants from outside the United States, especially from lower and middle-income countries.