3 rd Best- practice Workshop held at AHRI Delegates from the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) in Mpumalanga and the DIMAMO Population Health Research Centre in Limpopo were hosted by the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) from 30 August to 1 September for a South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) Nodal Best Practice workshop. The Director of SAPRIN, Prof Mark Collinson, describes the Best Practice workshop series as “a SAPRIN strategy to create shared skills and develop communities of practice in research operations, data management, and public and community engagement that will be the basis for creating a harmonised platform based on a common SAPRIN protocol, while acknowledging the different contexts in which the Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites (HDSS) nodes operate in”. Opening the workshop, the SAPRIN Deputy Director and AHRI Chief Information Officer Dr Kobus Herbst, noted that the workshop was “the third in a series of workshops, which will recur in future as we progress with the protocol implementation and enable new nodes joining SAPRIN to learn from our experience”.
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3rd Best- practice Workshop held at AHRI
Delegates from the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit
(Agincourt) in Mpumalanga and the DIMAMO Population Health Research Centre in Limpopo
were hosted by the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) from 30 August to 1 September for a
South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) Nodal Best Practice
workshop.
The Director of SAPRIN, Prof Mark Collinson, describes the Best Practice workshop series as “a
SAPRIN strategy to create shared skills and develop communities of practice in research
operations, data management, and public and community engagement that will be the basis for
creating a harmonised platform based on a common SAPRIN protocol, while acknowledging the
different contexts in which the Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites (HDSS) nodes operate
in”.
Opening the workshop, the SAPRIN Deputy Director and AHRI Chief Information Officer Dr Kobus
Herbst, noted that the workshop was “the third in a series of workshops, which will recur in future
as we progress with the protocol implementation and enable new nodes joining SAPRIN to learn