1. CREDO 0verview & workshop objectives
Peter Horby
What do we bring to the table?

2. What? Why? How? Who?

3. What is CREDO? A training curriculum
That aims to strengthen capacity of research teams in low and middle income countries to generate clinical evidence during outbreaks
Coordinated by the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC)
Theory and task based competencies

4. Overall learning objectives
To be able to:
Describe the steps in the planning and implementation of a clinical research study
Explain how an outbreak setting might influence the approach to these steps
Rapidly develop a research plan for an observational study or a clinical trial for a disease of epidemic potential

5. Why was CREDO developed?
Clinical research can often only be conducted during an outbreak

6. Origins
The idea of a ‘Training Curriculum’ approach to guiding decisions about epidemic research was recommended by a group of experts attending the meeting ‘Generating Evidence for Infectious Diseases with Epidemic Potential’ [20 October 2015].

9. How will CREDO be delivered?
Blended learning: face-to-face workshops and self- directed web-based learning
Begin with a two day face-to-face workshop
Ten web-based modules
Each module will take approximately four hours to complete and will incorporate tools for assessment and feedback
Conclude with a second two day face-to-face workshop during which the online training will be reinforced and built upon
A final educational simulation exercise (i.e. outbreak scenario) will enable participants to put their learning into practice

10. Target audience
Multidisciplinary research teams (clinicians, nurses, data and study managers) in LMICs that are susceptible to outbreaks.

11. Predicted geographical distribution of the zoonotic niche for Lassa virus.
accessed 20 Feb 2017
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12. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Aug;109(8):503-13.

14. Objectives for the two days
Your objectives (we will be asking)
Our goal
To influence your thinking and practice
Our objectives
To assemble the teams
To deliver first part of the curriculum
To learn from you
This is a pilot
Feedback
Areas for improvement (add, subtract, change)