These courses are taught in person at BRTI. They are not lessons on this website. When a date is open, you sign in and pay online, then attend on that date.
In person · Methods and data
How data is collected, stored, and summarised in community-based research, from types of data through to simple regression.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Library preparation and pathogen-genomics pipelines, in step with regional genomic surveillance and antimicrobial resistance work.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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How to synthesise evidence systematically, run a meta-analysis, and appraise a published study.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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From a research question to a plan: aims, literature, data management, and unbiased collection.
Length to be set · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Grant writing together with the reporting, financial compliance, and audit work that follows an award.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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How a paper is built, submitted, and presented, including authorship and plagiarism.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Study designs used in communities: surveys, cohorts, mixed methods, and community-based trials.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Design and methods for qualitative health research: interviews, observation, focus groups, and documents.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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What the regulations say about quarantine, vaccination, testing, contact tracing, surveillance technology, and infodemics.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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How fellows turn research findings into policy briefs and conversations with policy makers.
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Mentor and mentee roles, communication, and a research mentorship culture.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Integrity and ethical principles across design, conduct, and reporting.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
See dates and reserve a seatIn person · Laboratory
PCR, Sanger sequencing, and the first bioinformatics that goes with a Sanger trace.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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A short course on climate change and health, centred on emerging and re-emerging diseases.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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A workshop series on the analytical methods fellows ask for, beyond the introductory biostatistics course.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Variant calling, metagenomics, and phylogenomics for people who have already done the sequencing course.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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How a research finding moves into practice: dissemination, scale-up, and policy uptake.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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An introduction to health economics and budget-impact analysis for programme evaluation.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Principles of data science, what it adds to epidemiology and global health, and how large health datasets are shown.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Budgets, timelines, and people, for staff who deliver funded research.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting: logic models, indicators, and use of the data.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Quality control and preparation for ISO and SANAS accreditation in a research laboratory.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Media interviews, policy briefs, and public presentations.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental surveillance, following the emerging-diseases course.
5 days · Classroom · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Running and troubleshooting HIV molecular tests, drug-resistance workflows, and validation of point-of-care tests.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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GeneXpert Ultra, sequencing for TB surveillance, and rapid culture with drug-susceptibility testing.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Flow cytometry, immunophenotyping, ELISA, and multiplex cytokine assays for HIV and TB research.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Biobanking, sample tracking, cold chain, and the ethics of keeping specimens.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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BSL-2 and BSL-3 practice, waste, and emergency preparedness for HIV, TB, and emerging pathogens.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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Point-of-care molecular testing and portable sequencing for field and outbreak work.
5 days · Classroom and laboratory · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale
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