DrAndres Jaramillo

For more than nine years I have been a member of the Scientific Direction team and have participated in diverse strategies to build research and research training capacity in CIDEIM and its collaborating institutions. Almost immediately after I joined CIDEIM I was trained in the TDR short course “Effective Project Planning and Evaluation in Biomedical Research (EPPE)” in February 2007. Subsequently, I was trained as a trainer in May 2007. Since then, I have led seven Skill-Building and two Train-The-Trainer courses, disseminating the TDR EPPE methodology in Quito, Ecuador; Bordeaux, France; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bogota and Cali, Colombia. Additionally, I participated as a facilitator in the pilot of the Implementation Research course conducted in Accra, Ghana in 2013. I have worked in the permanent institutionalization of these project planning and evaluation tools and other research skill building courses within CIDEIM and participated in the organization of web-based courses and seminars offered through the research training program that CIDEIM and Yale University have established with national and regional doctoral programs in biomedical science through the Global Infectious Disease (GID) Research Training program supported by the USNIH Fogarty International Center. Currently, I coordinate the dissemination of training by CIDEIM as the Latin American Regional Training Centre supported by the WHO TDR programme.