Institutional capacity-strengthening for research: lessons from the CIRCLE ISP

Dr Vicki Doyle, Co-Director, Capacity Development International (CDI)

Vicki has more than 25 years’ experience of working in research, education, management and consultancy.  She has designed, delivered and evaluated health projects and programmes for community, district, regional and national health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America working with government, UN agencies, global health partnerships, research institutions, consultancy companies and NGOs.  Her research and consultancy work in health systems strengthening, quality improvement in health care, strategic planning, capacity development and evaluation has resulted in contributing to global guidance and national strategy documents, policy briefs, training manuals and journal articles.  Vicki is also an honorary fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine working closely with the Centre for Capacity Research and the Community Health Systems Group and she regularly contributes to LSTM’s teaching and education portfolio.

Ema Kelly, Co-Director, Capacity Development International (CDI) 

Ema has 25 years’ experience working in public and global health. In the last nine years she has focused on developing and implementing complex evaluations, strategy, toolkits, resources, research and development proposals and think pieces for a wide range of research, development and humanitarian actors. Her ability to think conceptually and use systems thinking to understand the interactions between the technical and management aspects of organisations and programmes has resulted in unique contributions to the design of robust organisational strategies and evaluations.  Ema has managed consultancies and multi-million-pound health programmes predominantly in Africa heading up multi-disciplinary teams managing programmes up to a value of £29 million.