Mentorship for research on TB in India: a course on Public Health Implementation Strengthening and Operational...

This issue of Public Health Action includes a series of articles on operational research (OR) on various aspects of 'TB in India'. These are the outputs of a two-year mentored course. Year one was based on the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT), a WHO/TDR-accredited model for building in-country OR capacity. Building on this work, year two was an innovation implemented by ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), in which mentees implemented a second mentored OR project. In this way, they did not just identify a problem but attempted to address it, to increase the chances of achieving even greater policy/practice change.