Developing Implementation/Operational Research for Improving Health Interventions

3 credits · Graduate School - DKU

IR/OR: studies how to improve uptake, implementation, and translation of research findings into routine and common practices; moves results from effectiveness studies and efficacy trials to real-world settings, obtaining information to guide scale-up; helps implementers apply lessons from a program in one context to developing a similar program in a similar environment. Course covers: framework of IR/OR; methods of identifying program implementation problems; how to organize and develop an IR/OR proposal; main study design, research methods, data collection and analysis used in IR/OR; approaches to capacity building for IR/OR in developing countries. Offered at Duke Kunshan University.