On July 26–27, 2023, VIAN-Health Science’s activities, VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy organized a summer workshop with the objective of enhancing research capacity for 3 targeted Universities under the USAID Partnership for Higher Education Reform project. The workshop attracted 120 in-person and online participants from three universities and Vietnamese health facilities.
Three keynote presentations were presented by international experts, and eight working research papers/research ideas were introduced and discussed by the workshop’s participants from the three universities. Thanks to experts’ and workshop participants’ comments and feedback on the working research papers in terms of study design, research methods, sampling, and corresponding data processing methods, these papers will be improved and are likely to be published internationally.
Additionally, the workshop helps connect and promote cooperation among the three universities in developing interdisciplinary research and contributing to improving the research capacity of lecturers and researchers. As a result, two drafts of the research proposal were formed based on the discussion results at the workshop.