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Introduction

Implementation Research (IR) is the systematic approach to recognising, understanding and addressing health system and implementation bottlenecks,identifying optimal implementation options for a given setting, and promoting the uptake of research findings into policy and practice. This also involves developing and testing practical solutions to address these problems, which are specific to health systems and environments or that address a problem common to a region.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop a basic understanding of the core principles of Implementation Science (IS)
• Comprehend contextual relevance of community engaged IS projects in Asia and Africa
• Gain skills to develop implementation research (IR) project/s using appropriate study designs, data collection methods, and analysis techniques
• Recognize the significance of monitoring and evaluation in IR and IS
• Acquire skills to communicate IR project findings

Audience

​This course can benefit a wide array of audience including academicians, researchers, public health practitioners and program managers working in health services programs or implementation projects within healthcare organizations in Pakistan.

Preference will be given to health professionals with a two years Master of Science in a related public health discipline. Participants with at least one published research paper in a peer reviewed journal or an indexed technical report will be given preference.​

​Course Advisor ​ ​Dr. Janet M. Turan MPH, PhD Director, UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA​	​Course Director​   Dr. Fauziah Rabbani MBBS, MPH, FCPS, FRCP, PhD The Noordin M. Thobani Professor Public Health BMI & Department of CHS, AKU​	​Course Co-Director​ ​ Ms. Nousheen Pradhan BScN, MSc (Health Policy & Management) Senior Instructor, Department of CHS AKU​
Course Facilitators​
​ Dr. Rozina Karmaliani (PhD) Professor and Dean AKU-School of Nursing and Midwifery (AKU SONAM)	​ Dr. Tazeen Saeed Ali (PhD) Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Innovation AKU-SONAM	​ Dr. Shehla Zaidi (PhD) Professor and Section Head, Department of CHS-AKU
​ Dr. Bilal Usmani (PhD) Assistant Professor and Section Head, Department of CHS-AKU	​ Dr. Manasi Kumar (PhD) Senior Implementation Scientist & Mental Health Consultant, BMI	​ Dr. Jamit Shah (PhD) Data Scientist, BMI-AKU
​ ​Dr. Rozina Mistry Senior Health Consultant & Sessional Faculty Department of CHS-AKU	​ Mr. Aneel Singh Brar Research Fellow, BMI-AKU	​ Dr. Maryam Huda Senior Instructor, Department of CHS-AKU
​ Dr. Maria Iqbal Implementation Scientist, BMI-AKU & Sr. Instructor, Departme​nt of CHS-AKU	​ Ms. Perin B. Avari Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan	​ Mr. Mustafa Naseem Clinical Assistant Professor of Information School of Information, University of Michigan, USA​