Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

The Summer Institute programme is a flagship event of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. Each year, a Summer Institute is hosted in Canada or in a Low- or Middle-income country (LMIC) and brings together new and experienced global health researchers to build capacity in translating research into action (knowledge translation), strengthen partnerships, and to nurture the next generation of global health researchers. Participants come in pairs who are working on their own research projects including a new researcher from Canada and a new researcher from an LMIC. While each Summer Institute is unique, they are all problem based and interactive. Participants learn a great deal about global health research during the institute (including ethics, partnership building, and leadership), and the overarching theme of the Institutes is "Research to Action" or Knowledge Translation. The 6th Summer Institute for New Global Health Researchers (SI-6) will have a sub-theme of Maternal and Child Health, and will gather 20 new global health researchers, along with facilitators/ mentors and resource people in Burkina Faso from July 22- 30, 2009. This will be first Francophone Summer Institute.