IPPH-IHSPR Summer Institute 2005:

Opportunities for students to explore research issues and approaches with other students and trainers were provided through morning presentations and afternoon small group work sessions. Daily presentation themes followed a logical sequence from a session with local community representatives outlining some of the health research issues in their area, to framing the research question, selecting methodology, finding the study population, identifying ethical and legal issues through to developing knowledge
translation strategies for the research.

The morning presentations were intended to add to participants’ knowledge on an array
of topics, such as: rural health indicators, rural health systems reform, population health
as it relates to rural and remote communities, problems and benefits associated with
doing research in rural and remote communities, ethical issues, models and practices that work in rural communities and the experiences people have had trying to approach this work in innovative ways. These presentations were intended to inform the afternoon
small group work of developing a proposal for an interdisciplinary, collaborative,
community-based research project on some issue related to rural and remote population
health or health services and policy. The culmination of the small group work was the
presentation of outlines of these proposals on the final day of the Institute