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Working Groups
- Climate Change and Health Intervention
- Climate Change, Nutrition and Health
- Climate-smart Health Systems
- Data Sharing for Global Health
- Design and implementation research in global health
- Digital Global Health
- Disease Control in Disadvantaged Populations
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Transition
- Global Child Health
- Global Health Policies and Systems
- Health Economics and Health Financing
- Implementation research for prevention and disease control
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Vector Borne Diseases and Geo Health
- Research Projects
Design and implementation research in global health
Our group emphasizes the use of qualitative research to inform the design, implementation and evaluative understanding of public health programs and interventions. We cherish established qualitative approaches (interviews, focus groups and observation), but we also aim to push qualitative techniques forward via, for example, debriefings, document reviews, epistemic interviews, journaling, media analysis, letter writing, photovoice and artefact-driven dialogue. A defining characteristic of our group is transdisciplinarity; we routinely partner with teams of trialists, social scientists, clinicians and epidemiologists to co-design interventions or surveys, to understand process-based perspectives amid intervention roll-out, and to capture summative insights regarding how end-users or implementers perceive an intervention.
Our work covers a range of topics across settings including:
• Mechanisms to support safe pregnancy and skilled birth attendance (Madagascar)
• Climate change and child health (global)
• Menstrual hygiene management for schoolchildren (Burkina Faso)
• Vaccine hesitancy and the development of interventions to promote vaccine confidence (Philippines, Germany and China)
• Feasibility and desirability of diagnostic tools (Germany)
• mHealth mechanisms to support hypertension management (Uganda)
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Working Groups
- Climate Change and Health Intervention
- Climate Change, Nutrition and Health
- Climate-smart Health Systems
- Data Sharing for Global Health
- Design and implementation research in global health
- Digital Global Health
- Disease Control in Disadvantaged Populations
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Transition
- Global Child Health
- Global Health Policies and Systems
- Health Economics and Health Financing
- Implementation research for prevention and disease control
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Vector Borne Diseases and Geo Health
- Research Projects
Group Leader
Dr. Shannon McMahon
Research Group “Design and implementation research in global health”
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.3
69120 Heidelberg