Collaboration for Research, Training and Implementation in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA)

We envision that the project will equip an LMIC led community of practice with the infrastructure and capability to improve the quality of care for critically ill patients and healthcare providers using high value clinical and service data. The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus the importance of critical care services and the impact of gaps in care quality on patient outcomes. This project builds upon the successes of our collaboration of LMIC investigator-led registries, which have contributed to data-driven health services research including pandemic preparedness and practice changing clinical trials. The outputs of this project directly align in vision with the WHO roadmap to strengthen health systems and enabling high quality LMIC research. The data research hub will provide unprecedented harmonised epidemiological and treatment data on critically ill patients comparable across income settings. The quality improvement interventions will improve care processes and generate methods scalable to other LMICs. This project will strengthen and sustain the foundations of a learning health system, whilst LMIC investigators develop the capabilities to lead research on policy, practice and population health.