The 1000 Challenge Study Builder
Welcome to the home of the 1000 Challenge: Supporting 1000 nurses, community and other allied health workers in leading pragmatic health research studies to improve outcomes in their patients whilst developing skills and leadership experience.
A collaborative system to introduce research into low-resource care settings by supporting allied health workers through the process and guiding every step and element that is needed to deliver good quality evidence that can change practice.
About the 1000 Challenge
Mwanamvua Boga, Nurse Manager at Kemri-Wellcome Trust Kilifi, Kenya, on her experiences of carrying out research in her care setting
Background
The 1000 Challenge is a global initiative developed by Nursing Now Challenge and The Global Health Network to enable 1000 nurses, midwives, community health workers, and other allied health professionals in low-resource settings to lead research studies that gather evidence to address priority issues in their communities. This is a powerful opportunity for leadership and career development delivered through workplace learning whilst generating vital evidence to improve health outcomes in their communities, and by doing, creating leadership experience.
This challenge is needed because there is vast inequity in where research happens, who leads, and who benefits from the evidence. Too few studies address health issues where accessible and pragmatic solutions could change outcomes in patients. For many reasons healthcare settings to do not have research built into their operations and system and so their healthcare professionals are not supported, encouraged, or mandated to undertake research that could practically and effectively reduce the burden of a devasting health challenge – and tackle gaps they see every day. Such research can generate evidence to inform changes in practice, training, or guidance, or healthcare resource allocation, program development, and implementation. The 1000 Challenge system is a mechanism to introduce research into these care settings by taking these workers through the process and guiding every step and element that is needed to deliver good quality evidence that can change practice.
