• Overview – The WHO global TB research Plan (by C Leinhardt) [Slides]
• Research priorities in DR-TB (by D Menzies) [Slides]
• Pediatric TB research – barriers and progress (by B Marais) [Slides]
• HIV-TB research and global priorities (by WJ Burman) [Slides]
• Overview of study architectures (by D Menzies) [Slides]

Day 2 – 15 July 2014

• Operational research: what, why and how (by AD Harries) [Slides]
• Capacity building for operational research in low- and middle-income countries – the SORT IT Model (by AD Harries) [Slides]
• Principles and structure of a research protocol (by AD Harries) [Slides]
• Examples of operations research studies conducted within the Indian National TB Control Programme (by S Satyanarayana) [Slides]
• Error, Confounders and Bias (by M Pai) [Slides]

Day 3 – 16 July 2014

• Molecular methods for typing and branding the tubercle bacillus (by M Behr) [Slides]
• Molecular Typing for patient, outbreak and population-level studies of TB epidemiology (by M Behr) [Slides]
• Genetic Epidemiology – A brief introduction (by E Schurr) [Slides]
• Genetic association studies in TB (by E Schurr) [Slides]
• Population selection and sample size (by A Benedetti) [Slides]

Day 4 – 17 July 2014

• Trial designs. Phase 1, 2 and 3 trials. Pragmatic and OBT designs (by D Menzies) [Slides]
• Study populations and sample size. Recruitment and randomization. Preventing bias and measurement issues (by F Ahmad Khan) [Slides]
• Details re Cluster Randomized and stepped intervention trials. Safety and ethics in trials. Adverse events and DSMB. Study oversight (by G Fox) [Slides]
• Data Analysis – primary end-points, planned and unplanned secondary analyses. Interim analyses, stopping rules (by D Menzies) [Slides]
• Data Analysis Methodology (by A Benedetti) [Slides]

Day 5 – 18 July 2014

• Introduction to infectious disease modeling (by O Oxlade) [Slides]
• Introduction to economic analyses (by K Schwartzman) [Slides]
• How to evaluate an economic analysis (by K Schwartzman) [Slides]
• Issues and challenges in modeling TB (by O Oxlade) [Slides]