Program Overview

Summer Boot Camp 2023

The Summer Boot Camp 2023 is a program that took place from 17-19 July 2023.

Program Details

The program features a series of video playlists, including:

• Day 1:
  • MIST Day 1 - Opening Remarks
  • Leveraging Implementation science for integration of HIV and non-communicable disease services
  • Statistics in Implementation Science
  • Harnessing on Implementation Science to Reach Hard-to-Reach Population
  • How to leverage on Implementation Science for Multi-Component, Multi-Level Interventions
• Day 2:
  • Can mixed-method approaches strengthen Implementation Research
  • Implementation Science in Times of Crisis
  • Dr Nur Afiqah
  • Mona and Rick
• Day 3:
  • Day 3 - 1
  • Day 3 - 2
  • Day 3 - 3

Speakers

The program features a range of speakers, including:

• Dato' Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman: Infectious Disease Specialist and Chief Executive Officer, Pro Vice-Chancellor and President at Monash University Malaysia
• Prof Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD: Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health and former Dean of the Yale School of Public Health
• Prof Rick Altice, MD, MA: Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine
• Assoc. Prof Luke Davis, MD: Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Yale School of Medicine
• Lynn Madden, PhD, MPA: Chief Executive Officer at APT Foundation
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rafdzah Ahmad Zaki, MBChB,MPH,DrPH: Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Reena Rajasuriar, MPharm, PhD: Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
• Ashley Hagaman, PhD, MPH: Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health
• Dr Lim Sin How, MSHCA, PhD: Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
• Dr Nur Afiqah Mohd Salleh, MPH,PhD: Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
• Dr Rumana Akhter Saifi, MSS,MA,MPH,PhD: Director of CERiA and Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
• Prof Denise Esserman, PhD: Professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health
• Jen Edelman, MD, MHS, BS: Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale University
• Prof Dr Sanjay Rampal, MBBS,MPH,PhD: Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Universiti Malaya
• Prof Dr Victor Hoe, MBBS, MPH, M.Eng, M.OSH, PhD: Professor of Occupational and Public Health at Universiti Malaya
• Assoc. Prof Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Medicine in the AIDS Program of the Section of Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine
• Assoc. Prof Dr Raja Iskandar Shah Raja Azwa, MBChB, MRCP: Associate Professor of infectious diseases at the Universiti Malaya

Research Areas

The program covers a range of research areas, including:

• Implementation science
• HIV and non-communicable disease services
• Statistics in implementation science
• Reaching hard-to-reach populations
• Multi-component, multi-level interventions
• Mixed-method approaches
• Implementation research in times of crisis
• Substance use disorder in HIV implementation science
• Integration of implementation science into academic training programs
• Utilizing diversity of medicine and public health
• Addressing stigma at scale by harnessing implementation science
• Innovative qualitative and mixed-method approaches to strengthen implementation science
• Methodological and statistical considerations in implementation research
• Adapting evidence-based interventions in new contexts
• Implementation research findings with men who have sex with men (MSM)
• Community-based participatory research
• Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease
• Occupational and public health
• Biomedical approaches to HIV prevention
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among key populations
• Human papilloma virus (HPV) infection
• Anal cancer in men who have sex with men (MSM)
• Mobile health interventions
• HIV-associated co-morbidities
• Young men who have sex with men in the summer bootcamp