Internal Resources
GHRN Country Contacts
Members of the Global Health Research Network have experience working in countries across the world. If you need advice or guidance, please visit our country contacts page (log in required).
Ethics applications for Global Health Research
The UoB STEM ethics committee now has a specific sub-committee dedicated to Global Health Research. Please apply for ethics as usual.
Finances and Due Diligence
Researchers undertaking Global Health Research may be required to undertake due diligence processes before agreeing contracts and releasing funds.
This is an area of rapid development but here are some documents which have been recently used by our research teams during the contracting process and for finance reporting: due diligence assessment (log in required) and finance reporting form (log in required) . Both documents are templates, please email mds.globalhealthresearchnetwork@contacts.bham.ac.uk for further advice.
IT and Communications Methods for Global Working
This document details the numerous ways you can communicate to partners across the world.
Patient and Public Involvement
Patient and public involvement is becoming increasingly important in your study design and study question especially for clinical studies involving the NHS and certain funders. The Patient and Public Involvement section on the intranet (log in required) details fundamentals to consider.
The INVOLVE website provides some information about their developments in international work.
Birmingham Researcher
This section details resources, support and guidance regarding developing your research career at Birmingham.
Childcare fund for Conference Attendance
The fund is primarily to allow attendance at conferences for individuals (normally with child caring responsibilities) who would otherwise be unable to attend. Money is available (max. £150) to help towards your child and/or child-carer costs. For example, this could help towards the cost of your child-carer’s travel/accommodation costs or perhaps your child’s conference admission costs.
Staff of all genders may apply for funding. Applications from staff with caring responsibilities for adults may also be considered. Applications can be made via the University intranet (log in required).
Parent and Carers Intranet Resource
The Parents and Carers resource section on the University intranet brings together information and support on all aspects of family-related leave and support for staff.
External Resources
Global Health Training Centre
This website brings together a wealth of training materials from across the Global Health Network, collaborating organisations, institutions and networks, and from reliable internet sources. Free and accessible to all the Global Health Training Centre provides research staff of all roles, all regions and all disease areas with the ‘how-to’ training materials required to safely conduct high quality research. Find out more at the Global Health Training Centre website.
Kwintessential
This website is ideal if you are visiting or meeting visitors from another country and you would like to know more about the customs, business and culture. Find out more at the Kwintessential website.
National Institute for Health Research - Going the Extra Mile
Going the Extra Mile: Improving the nation's health and wellbeing through public involvement in research details the NIHR's vision in public involvement in research, their research into current public involvement in research today and what the NIHR are planning going forward.
NIHR Involve
The organisation that oversees involvement of the public in research have a subgroup looking at international working. Find out more on their site.
The British Medical Journal
Tessa Richards in this blog article discusses how the patient and public involvement in research is growing and how it should be growing moving forward.