CONNECT Theme Areas

Explore our core thematic networks tailored to support research health workers, field workers, and community investigators. Access specialized knowledge, regional toolkits, and communities of practice.

Explore Our Core Themes

🧠 Mental Health & Wellbeing

Addressing psychological distress, burnout, and emotional challenges faced by frontline health workforces. Access toolkits, peer support evidence, and practical coping frameworks.

🗣️ Communication Skills

Enhancing healthcare interactions, cross-cultural engagements, and respectful patient communication. Discover the intensive iCARE-Haaland model and related training modules.

⚖️ Ethics in Community Research

Navigating informed consent, power dynamics, and vulnerability in field settings. Designed to guide field researchers through complex community-based moral dilemmas.

💻 Digital Health Innovation

Leveraging community-level data science, wastewater surveillance tracking, and mobile health tools (mHealth) to improve local equity and clinical intervention workflows.

👥 Leadership in Healthcare

Building core capacities for supervisors, unit heads, and field managers. Learn conflict resolution, team motivation, and adaptive decision-making under stress.

🤝 Public & Community Engagement

Strengthening the vital link between clinical research, field workers, and wider society. Share experiences on building sustainable, bi-directional trust with local populations. Find our more about Public and Community Engagement activities at OUCRU to support healthcare workers and partnered hospitals

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CONNECT is a continuously evolving, collaborative ecosystem. We regularly update our thematic spaces based on active field data, steering committee assessments, and needs driven by research health professionals across the global hubs. Check back often or visit our main Resources Gateway for comprehensive cross-thematic literature filter toolkits.


Communication

Find resources and articles to enhance communication capacities within health and research settings. 


Mental Health

Find articles and resources for health-based professionals related to mental health and well-being issues.  


Healthcare workers

Discover resources and training for healthcare workers. 


Ethical Issues

Explore articles and resources highlighting ethical issues of relevance within health and research contexts


Patient focused care

Find articles and resources related to patient care, and supports for family and patients during rehabilitation and post-hospitalisation.  


Epidemics and Pandemics

Discover resources and learnings about working within epidemic and pandemic contexts.