The supporting platforms of RESPIRE increase the ability of our partners to plan, undertake and implement the findings of research in their countries. The supporting platforms will focus on how to work with partners, ‘Stakeholder Engagement & Community Engagement and Involvement’ increasing the number of health professionals and researchers who are trained to undertake high quality research, ‘Education and capacity building’ maximising the uses that research data can be put to in safe and secure ways, ‘Open Science, Data & Methodologies’, and enabling access to resources through 'Digital Health and Innovation'. Platform I: Stakeholder Engagement & Community Engagement and Involvement Leads: Sanjay Juvekar & Siân Williams Platform II: Capacity Building, Education & Training Leads: Hana Mahmood, Neoventive Solutions & Ruth McQuillan, University of Edinburgh Platform III: Open Science, Data & Methodologies Tathagata Bhattacharjee, KEM Hospital Research Centre & Chris Weir, University of Edinburgh Platform IV: Digital Health and Innovation Leads: Zakiuddin Ahmed, Riphah International University & Syed Ahmar Shah, University of Edinburgh This article was published on 2024-09-24