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Week 1 (2-6 May 2022)

Introduction to scale up

Learning objectives

After completing Week 1, participants will be able to explain how the study of implementing health interventions at scale fits into the field of implementation science and vice versa.

Self-guided preparatory work

Week 1 live plenary sessions

• Date and time: Tuesday 3 May 2022, 12:00 to 14:00 UTC
• Week 1 host: Morven Roberts and GACD staff
• Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6305424976

Chicago, USA	Buenos Aires, Argentina	London, UK	Nairobi, Kenya	New Delhi, India	Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday 3 May 2022	Tuesday 3 May 2022	Tuesday 3 May 2022	Tuesday 3 May 2022	Tuesday 3 May 2022	Tuesday 3 May 2022
07:00 CDT (UTC -5)	09:00 ART (UTC-3)	13:00 BST (UTC +1)	15:00 EAT (UTC +3)	17:30 IST (UTC +5.5)	22:00 AEST (UTC +10)

Reminder: Timings are given in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time). We strongly advise you to double check your local time via http://www.timeanddate.com

Homework:

Week one’s homework is outlined below or can be found in this attached document.

Each team is allocated another team’s project concept to review.

Please read the project concept and consider the following questions as a team (not individually):

• What are three components of the project concept that are strong, innovative, or particularly interesting to you and why?
• What are three components of the project concept that require strengthening and why?
• What three questions do you have for the project concept authors?

Each team should prepare their answers and be ready to share them as part of a group discussion during the Week 2 group session. You are notrequired to submit a written paper.

All project concepts can be found in the participant handbook. The homework task should take less than one hour to complete.

Reminder: These are project concepts, not full proposals, so your peer review should focus on general concepts and questions, rather than a detailed critique.

As additional reading, you may find it helpful to be aware of the NIH request for application guidance: RFA-HL-20-005: Late-Stage Implementation Research Addressing Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Scaling Up Proven-Effective Interventions (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional) (nih.gov)

Peer review allocations for homework 1 task

Group A	Team 4	will review the project concept of…	Team 5
Team 5	will review the project concept of…	Team 7
Team 7	will review the project concept of…	Team 11
Team 11	will review the project concept of…	Team 4

Group B	Team 2	will review the project concept of…	Team 3
Team 3	will review the project concept of…	Team 9
Team 9	will review the project concept of…	Team 10
Team 10	will review the project concept of…	Team 2

Group C	Team 1	will review the project concept of…	Team 6
Team 6	will review the project concept of…	Team 8
Team 8	will review the project concept of…	Team 1

Further Reading:

The physical activity interventions in Brazil scaling up case study on the e-Hub is a great example of scale up.

For more information about GACD and relevant resources:

About GACD: https://gacd.org/about/what-we-do

GACD Twitter page: https://twitter.com/gacd_media

GACD LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3208738/admin/

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We are keen to receive your feedback on the e-Hub to improve it further. We would appreciate you completing a short survey, available here.

If you would like to provide more detailed feedback, please contact us at contact.ehub@implementationscience-gacd.org.

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