Intentional inclusion of networking resources and opportunities, building on virtual platforms and social media, could become as mainstream for capacity strengthening as fellowships and travel awards are now.
Membership of a research and practice community offers added benefits such as opportunities for capacity building and peer support and review.
It also serves as a platform for capacity building, marketing, bulk purchasing and advocacy.
Capacity assessment may be more useful as a baseline for capacity building, than for performance measurement.
Our approach serves as an example for capacity building for other diseases.
The ability to integrate different arguments and points of views was also mentioned as a criterion for capacity.
In many cases, for pragmatic reasons, we recognize it may be appropriate for the chronological age be used as a proxy for capacity.
This served as an opportunity for capacity building and to conduct postlicensure safety surveillance in the low- and middle-income countries of Africa where the vaccine was used.
This may be particularly relevant if field staff of a particular demographic are needed, although it can be seen as an opportunity for capacity building within communities.
Similarly, as for infection capacity, the ancestral t0 isolates differed significantly in the capacity to reduce bacterial density (F3,27 = 13.28, P < 0.0001), whereas evolved t6 phages were not significantly different with respect to their isolate origin (F3,28 = 0.48, P > 0.7).
