FORGE gathers early-career researchers around structured, multi-year programmes on health-technology implementation in low- and middle-income countries, so individual projects build toward a shared, cumulative evidence base.
The problem FORGE addresses
A tool that works in a clinical trial does not automatically work in a health system.
2 in 3
people worldwide lack basic diagnostics at the point of care.
The hard question is how a technology is governed, financed, staffed, and sustained under real constraints. That evidence is thinnest of all.
A master's thesis is usually a one-off. It rarely builds on what came before, and the researcher rarely continues.
Coordinated programmes that produce both the researchers and the evidence LMIC health systems need.
How it works
FORGE is a research entity that generates evidence and, in doing so, builds a community of practice, connecting early-career researchers into multidisciplinary working groups.
A multi-year initiative organised into work packages, grouped by research logic rather than by technology alone.
Every project states its design, data needs, prerequisites, difficulty, timeline, and publication potential, so you can judge fit before committing.
Each project adds to an evidence base that grows across cohorts, instead of resetting every graduation cycle.
The FORGE forum
Register and join a searchable network of early-career researchers, connected into multidisciplinary working groups that build evidence together.
A living directory of your background, methods, country context, and interests.
Multidisciplinary teams and the full portfolio of projects across every FORGE programme.
Curated methodological resources and a growing library of completed research.
Our inaugural programme: how point-of-care ultrasound and other diagnostics can be implemented, governed, financed, and sustained in LMIC health systems.
People
Built by researchers, for researchers, with guidance from an advisory board in implementation science and global health.
Founder
Founder of FORGE, working to build structured, cumulative programmes of implementation research on health technologies in low- and middle-income countries, turning isolated early-career research into a coordinated evidence base and a pipeline of implementation researchers.
Open role
This seat is open. If you want to help build FORGE from the ground up, shaping its programmes and its community, we'd like to hear from you.
Open role
A second founding seat is open. We're looking for people with complementary expertise in implementation science, global health, or LMIC health systems.
The board provides strategic guidance and methodological oversight, helping shape programmes, safeguard quality, and connect FORGE to the institutions that need implementation evidence. We're inviting experienced researchers and health-system leaders to help guide FORGE as it grows.
Get in touchGet involved
If you're an early-career researcher, a supervisor, or an institution interested in hosting FORGE projects, we'd like to hear from you.