July 3rd, 2024
Suneel Gill, Research Assistant at POTENTIAL, facilitated REDCap training with the team to enhance data management. He designed and managed CRFs in REDCap and developed this POTENTIAL project website into a highly functional platform.
May 24th, 2024
Successful refresher training for the TB staff has been conducted before the initiation of work package 3 of the POTENTIAL project. Staff from 15 TB healthcare facilities across Swat, Mardan, Abbottabad, Peshawar, and Rawalpindi participated in the training.
May 18th, 2024
Dr. Mariyam Sarfraz leads the POTENTIAL team through a series of hands-on qualitative analysis workshops. The team, under her supervision, will analyze the assessment conducted in the feasibility study (Work Package 2) of the optimised TB-diabetes integrated care package
SPSS workshop
April 19th, 2024
Muhammad Asim, Research Assistant at POTENTIAL, facilitated an SPSS workshop at the International Public Health Conference KMU. He is also leading a Systematic Review at IMPACT and contributed to a grant write-up under the supervision of Dr. Saima Afaq
Qualitative Research Workshop
February 13th, 2024
One-day training workshop on Qualitative Research Analysis arranged by POTENTIAL, at Khyber Medical University. The workshop aimed to enhance the POTENTIAL team’s understanding the Qualitative Research, coding, and how to conduct interviews
Good Clinical practice (GCP)
January 3rd & 4th, 2024
POTENTIAL attended the NIDA training workshop on Good Clinical Practice conducted at Khyber Medical University. In this brief course, the basic principles of GCP will be covered, along with practical applications for the researcher in the research setting.
Global Mental Health Symposium
November 8th & 9th, 2023
Project manager POTENTIAL attending the symposium on global mental health and analysis of global mental health trials.
Workshop on RCTs
November 7th, 2023
Project manager attending a workshop on Conduct and Management of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), Consort statement, and SPIRIT guidance.
Integration of Diabetes Screening and Management within the TB Care – Delivery of the Optimized Tuberculosis Diabetes (Opt-TBD) Care Package
August 22nd & 23rd, 2023
Two days of Hands-on training arranged by POTENTIAL, to enhance the capacity of DOT facilitators and MOs and DOTS in screening and managing diabetes among TB patients for implementing the Integrated Optimized-TBD care in KP and Punjab.
CADA Implementation Training
July 17th to 28th, 2023
POTENTIAL Team participating in “Implementation Science Summer School-Addressing Mental and Physical Health Together” at the University of York, UK. A Program, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) aimed to equip early/ mid-career researchers to independently design and deliver implementation science studies.
Communication Skill Workshop
May 22nd to 26th, 2023
POTENTIAL Team participating in the Communication Skills Workshop at Khyber Medical University. The workshop empowered participants with skills and knowledge to enhance their communication in various professional settings, covering topics from communication models to stress management.
Good Clinical practice (GCP)
March 1st & 2nd, 2023
POTENTIAL Team attended the international training on Good Clinical Practice in Islamabad, led by John Hiley from Bradford District Care NHS. The training aimed to enhance the team’s understanding of ethical principles, protocol adherence in clinical trials, data management, quality assurance, informed consent, and research misconduct.
Co-Design Workshop
February 15th, 2023
The Co-Design Workshop organized by Team POTENTIAL in collaboration with the University of York featured a briefing by Dr. Saima Afaq, providing participants with insights into the POTENTIAL project. The co-design workshop aimed to design a pathway that facilitates DOTS and will be helpful in the treatment of TB and diabetes along with general mental disorders.
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU)
December 15th, 2022
MoU signed between Provincial TB Control Programme Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Khyber Medical University for ongoing TB Multimorbidity research projects at KMU including POTENTIAL.