BU Research Blog

Today and yesterday (24-25 July) the Global Consortium for Public Health Research (GCPHR) met at the University of Huddersfield in a workshop to plan the multi-country (India, Nepal & Ghana) longitudinal cohort study.   The workshop was attended by 15 people including Dr. Pramod Regmi and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen from Bournemouth University’s Faculty of Health & Social Sciences.

This longitudinal study is coordinated by Prof. Padam Simkhada from the University of Huddersfield, Padam is also Visiting Professor at BU. The main start-up funding for this three-country study comes from the University of Huddersfield.  The workshop participants represented India, Ghana and Nepal, including the non-governmental organisation Green Tara Nepal.  The participants discussed research process as well as more detailed health domains and questions to be included in the survey tools.