Increasing Chronic Disease Research Capacity in Guatemala Through a Mentoring Program

Barnoya, Joaquín; Monzón, Jose; Colditz, Graham A.

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“…number of participants, feedback on formal sessions, annual self-evaluations by trainees). The other four programmes had conducted formal mixed-method evaluations with appropriate ethics review (Barnoya, Monzon, & Colditz, 2013 ; Godoy-Paiz et al, 2011 ; McCullough, 2012 ; Toranzos & Rutty, 2011 ) from which research team members extracted relevant information. Organisational website information was supplemented by email exchanges with programme leadership and Microsoft Excel tables facilitated comparisons.…”

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Mentoring health researchers globally: Diverse experiences, programmes, challenges and responses

Cole

Johnson²,

Méjía

et al. 2015

Global Public Health

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Mentoring experiences and programmes are becoming increasingly recognised as important by those engaged in capacity strengthening in global health research. Using a primarily qualitative study design, we studied three experiences of mentorship and eight mentorship programmes for early career global health researchers based in high-income and low- and middle-income countries. For the latter, we drew upon programme materials, existing unpublished data and more formal mixed-method evaluations, supplemented by individual email questionnaire responses. Research team members wrote stories, and the team assembled and analysed them for key themes. Across the diverse experiences and programmes, key emergent themes included: great mentors inspire others in an inter-generational cascade, mentorship is transformative in personal and professional development and involves reciprocity, and finding the right balance in mentoring relationships and programmes includes responding creatively to failure. Among the challenges encountered were: struggling for more level playing fields for new health researchers globally, changing mindsets in institutions that do not have a culture of mentorship and building collaboration not competition. Mentoring networks spanning institutions and countries using multiple virtual and face-to-face methods are a potential avenue for fostering organisational cultures supporting quality mentorship in global health research.

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Mentoring health researchers globally: Diverse experiences, programmes, challenges and responses

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Johnson²,

Méjía

et al. 2015

Global Public Health

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“…Health management mentoring involves spending time with managers in their local environment to assist them in their day-to-day challenges. Mentorship is defined as the dynamic, reciprocal relationship in a work environment between an advanced career incumbent (mentor) and a beginner (mentee) [ 8 ]. It aims at promoting the development of both the mentor and mentee.…”

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“…It aims at promoting the development of both the mentor and mentee. Mentoring is recognized as a catalyst for facilitating career selection, advancement, and productivity [ 8 , 9 ].…”

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To what extent do site-based training, mentoring, and operational research improve district health system management and leadership in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol

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BackgroundDistrict health managers play a key role in the effectiveness of decentralized health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Inadequate management and leadership skills often hamper their ability to improve quality of care and effectiveness of health service delivery. Nevertheless, significant investments have been made in capacity-building programmes based on site-based training, mentoring, and operational research. This systematic review aims to review the effectiveness of site-based training, mentoring, and operational research (or action research) on the improvement of district health system management and leadership. Our secondary objectives are to assess whether variations in composition or intensity of the intervention influence its effectiveness and to identify enabling and constraining contexts and underlying mechanisms.MethodsWe will search the following databases: MEDLINE, PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, CRD database (DARE), Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group, ISI Web of Science, Health Evidence.org, PDQ-Evidence, ERIC, EMBASE, and TRIP. Complementary search will be performed (hand-searching journals and citation and reference tracking).Studies that meet the following PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) criteria will be included: P: professionals working at district health management level; I: site-based training with or without mentoring, or operational research; C: normal institutional arrangements; and O: district health management functions. We will include cluster randomized controlled trials, controlled before-and-after studies, interrupted time series analysis, quasi-experimental designs, and cohort and longitudinal studies. Qualitative research will be included to contextualize findings and identify barriers and facilitators.Primary outcomes that will be reported are district health management and leadership functions. We will assess risk of bias with the Cochrane Collaboration’s tools for randomized controlled trials (RCT) and non RCT studies and Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklists for qualitative studies. We will assess strength of recommendations with the GRADE tool for quantitative studies, and the CERQual approach for qualitative studies. Synthesis of quantitative studies will be performed through meta-analysis when appropriate. Best fit framework synthesis will be used to synthesize qualitative studies.DiscussionThis protocol paper describes a systematic review assessing the effectiveness of site-based training (with or without mentoring programmes or operational research) on the improvement of district health system management and leadership.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42015032351Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13643-016-0239-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“… 36 Guatemala has an established mentoring experience to increase research capacity. 37 , 38 An expanded program is being planned by GICR in the context of the Latin American Hub activities, whereby longstanding PBCRs (eg, Colombia) would host LMIC faculty and staff.…”

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Advancing Reliable Data for Cancer Control in the Central America Four Region

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Frazier

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The Central America Four (CA-4) region, comprising Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, is the largest low- and middle-income country region in the Western Hemisphere, with over 36 million inhabitants. The CA-4 nations share a common geography, history, language, and development indices, and unified with open borders in 2006. The growing CA-4 cancer burden among the noncommunicable diseases is expected to increase 73% by 2030, which argues for a regional approach to cancer control. This has driven efforts to establish population-based cancer registries as a central component of the cancer control plans. The involvement of international and academic partners in an array of initiatives to improve cancer information and control in the CA-4 has accelerated over the past several years. Existing data underscore that the infectious cancers (cervical, stomach, and liver) are a particular burden. All four countries have committed to establishing regional population-based cancer registries and have advanced significantly in pediatric cancer registration. The challenges common to each nation include the lack of national cancer control plans and departments, competing health priorities, lack of trained personnel, and sustainability strategies. General recommendations to address these challenges are outlined. The ongoing regional, international, and academic cooperation has proven helpful and is expected to continue to be a powerful instrument to contribute to the design and implementation of long-term national cancer control plans.

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Increasing Chronic Disease Research Capacity in Guatemala Through a Mentoring Program

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Mentoring health researchers globally: Diverse experiences, programmes, challenges and responses

Mentoring health researchers globally: Diverse experiences, programmes, challenges and responses

To what extent do site-based training, mentoring, and operational research improve district health system management and leadership in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol

Advancing Reliable Data for Cancer Control in the Central America Four Region

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