What is the Project about?

This project aims to strengthen managerial capacities and knowledge for managers of National Research and Innovation for Health Systems. COHRED has been supporting the development and strengthening of research for heath systems. However, this is the first opportunity that COHRED has had to engage managers responsible for these systems. The project is aimed at building capacities around the practical aspects concerning the day-to-day work of research for health managers. It is in this regard that the project integrates a series of courses into its approach.

What is happening in the Project

The course on Policies works to offer social and development perspectives to issues concerning policies in research for health.

The entry on monitoring and evaluation is aimed at providing common accepted indicators that can be used to come up with a standard understanding of monitoring and evaluation. This is needed in order to benchmark advances of research in the region.

The course on ‘use of research results’ enables research managers to understand the role they can play in using, facilitating and supporting the use of research results for decision-making.

Project Achievements

The courses held so far under this project include: an Introductory course held in Antigua, Guatemala in July 2011.

Through 2012, three on-line courses, 30 hours each will be offered. Issues of focus will include:

• Policies for research for health, new perspectives;
• Monitoring and evaluation of research for health;
• Use of research results.

COHRED’s Partners

COHRED is working in close collaboration with the Ibero-American Ministerial Network on Learning and Research for Health. This Network is coordinated by the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica and has a grant from the Spanish Cooperation Agency for International Development. Another supporter of the initiative is the Health Institute Carlos III (Spain). The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico will give technical (online platform) and academic (integration of syllabus) support as well as academic accreditation of the courses. The Network brings together the partners through which the project is implemented.

For more information

COHRED Group Contacts

Francisco Becerra on email: becerra@cohred.org
Also see: www.rimais.net, www.isciii.es, www.insp.mx, www.aecid.es