{"id":3982,"date":"2017-09-04T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2017-09-04T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:53:42","slug":"the-twende-course-in-uganda-translating-research-evidence-into-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/the-twende-course-in-uganda-translating-research-evidence-into-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"The TWENDE course in Uganda: Translating Research Evidence into solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3988 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/Class-photo-K1024-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The purpose of research is to provide answers to the needs of society.\u00a0 Sadly, majority of research finds end at publication in academic journals and are never translated into solutions in the form of usable products or implementable policies.\u00a0 Funded by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edctp.org\/\"> EDCTP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/infection\/infection-group\/projects\/\">TWENDE consortium<\/a> is advancing the culture of translating research knowledge into commercial products and policies to practice within the East Africa Community and Africa at large.\u00a0 Watch Dr. Wilber Sabiiti, Mr. Ivan Mwebaza and Dr. Ewan Chirnside explaining the value of research and its translation to usable products and policies is for national development:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmGkthnHpRM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmGkthnHpRM<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O9iGbEfcsys\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/O9iGbEfcsys<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJrGCRLTQds&amp;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJrGCRLTQds&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3983 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/Ewan-leading-grou-discussion-K1024-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more about research as an engine for African development on the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/OpEd\/Commentary\/Africa-s-breakthrough-will-come-from-African-solutions\/689364-4048926-format-xhtml-upx9wn\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/OpEd\/Commentary\/A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/OpEd\/Commentary\/Africa-s-breakthrough-will-come-from-African-solutions\/689364-4048926-format-xhtml-upx9wn\/index.html\">frica-s-breakthrough-will-come-from-African-solutions\/689364-4048926-format-xhtml-upx9wn\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> August 2017, a total of 25 researchers, administrators and journalists were trained in translation of research knowledge into commercial products and policies at Makerere University, Uganda.\u00a0 Dr. Ewan Chirnside of the University of St. Andrews Knowledge transfer\/exchange centre took the class through commercialisation of research ideas, intellectual property rights, frugal innovation and the research \u2013 impact pathway.\u00a0 The class discussed and appreciated the value of creative thinking to up frugal innovation in Africa.\u00a0 Dr. Sabiiti taught class how to translate research evidence into policy briefs to influence policy making and improve service delivery in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3987 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/09\/Trainees-develop-the-research-impact-pathway-K1024-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Wilber Sabiiti and Dr Ewan Chrinside recently ran training sessions on translating research knowledge into commercial products and policies to practice at the recent TWENDE Course in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[49,409,884,1133,1134],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-africa","tag-dr-wilber-sabiiti","tag-policy-to-practice","tag-twende","tag-uganda"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 21:22:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}