diff --git a/.github/workflows/create_pr_on_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/create_pr_on_pr.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3a6cb638
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/create_pr_on_pr.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+name: Create Translation Branches and PRs
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
+
+
+jobs:
+  create_translation_branches:
+    if: startsWith(github.head_ref, 'handbook_v') && endsWith(github.head_ref, '_en') 
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Git
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name 'ntluong95'
+          git config --global user.email 'ph.ntluong95@gmail.com'
+
+      - name: Install GitHub CLI
+        run: |
+          sudo apt update
+          sudo apt install -y gh
+
+
+      - name: Create language branches and PRs
+        run: |
+          LANGS=("fr" "es" "vn" "jp" "tr" "pt" "ru")  
+          PR_BRANCH="${{ github.head_ref }}"  
+          VERSION_SUFFIX="${PR_BRANCH#handbook_}"
+          BASE_BRANCH="main"
+
+          for lang in "${LANGS[@]}"; do
+            NEW_BRANCH="handbook_${VERSION_SUFFIX/_en/_$lang}"
+            # Check if the branch already exists
+            if ! git rev-parse --verify --quiet "${NEW_BRANCH}"; then
+              git checkout -b "${NEW_BRANCH}"
+            else
+              git checkout "${NEW_BRANCH}" 
+              git pull "${PR_BRANCH}" "${NEW_BRANCH}" --rebase
+            fi
+
+            git fetch origin "${NEW_BRANCH}"
+            git push origin "${NEW_BRANCH}"
+            gh pr create --base $BASE_BRANCH --head $NEW_BRANCH --title "Handbook ${VERSION_SUFFIX/_en/} $lang" --body "Automated pull request for $lang handbook version ${VERSION_SUFFIX/_en/}"
+          done
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull_request_template.md b/.github/workflows/pull_request_template.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8fc8f87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull_request_template.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+### 🛠 Changes being made
+
+Describe the general changes in this PR. 
+Provide links to each commit in the **List of changes**.
+
+
+
+
+### 🏎 List of changes
+
+- [ ] Please do this change [commit #1]
+
+- [ ] Please do this change [commit #2]
+
+- [ ] Please do this change [commit #3]
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/render_book_on_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/render_book_on_pr.yml
index 6b6ca855..af97d33c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/render_book_on_pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/render_book_on_pr.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 name: Render Book on PR to Main
 
 on:
-  pull_request: # change to push later
+  pull_request_target:
+    types: [closed]
     branches:
       - main
 
 jobs:
+  check-merged:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true && startsWith(github.event.pull_request.head.ref, 'handbook_update')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
+
   build-and-render:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true && startsWith(github.event.pull_request.head.ref, 'handbook_update')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [check-merged]  # Ensure this runs only after the check-merged job completes
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository
@@ -22,19 +35,21 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup R
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
 
-      - name: Install R Packages
+      - name: Restore R package from renv
         run: |
-          Rscript -e '
-          if (!requireNamespace("pacman", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("pacman")
-          pacman::p_load(
-            "tidyverse", "googlesheets4", "learnr", "swirl", "here", "rio", "openxlsx",
-            "pacman", "renv", "remotes", "linelist", "naniar", "janitor", "gtsummary",
-            "rstatix", "broom", "lmtest", "easystats", "epicontacts", "EpiNow2",
-            "EpiEstim", "projections", "incidence2", "i2extras", "epitrix", "distcrete",
-            "cowplot", "RColorBrewer", "ggnewscale", "DiagrammeR", "gghighlight", "ggrepel",
-            "plotly", "gganimate", "sf", "tmap", "OpenStreetMap", "spdep", "rmarkdown",
-            "reportfactory", "officer", "flexdashboard", "shiny", "knitr", "flextable",
-            "ggtree", "ape", "treeio", "babelquarto", "babeldown")'
+          install.packages("renv")
+          renv::restore()
+#          Rscript -e '
+#          if (!requireNamespace("pacman", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("pacman")
+#          pacman::p_load(
+#            "tidyverse", "googlesheets4", "learnr", "swirl", "here", "rio", "openxlsx",
+#            "pacman", "renv", "remotes", "linelist", "naniar", "janitor", "gtsummary",
+#            "rstatix", "broom", "lmtest", "easystats", "epicontacts", "EpiNow2",
+#            "EpiEstim", "projections", "incidence2", "i2extras", "epitrix", "distcrete",
+#            "cowplot", "RColorBrewer", "ggnewscale", "DiagrammeR", "gghighlight", "ggrepel",
+#            "plotly", "gganimate", "sf", "tmap", "OpenStreetMap", "spdep", "rmarkdown",
+#            "reportfactory", "officer", "flexdashboard", "shiny", "knitr", "flextable",
+#            "ggtree", "ape", "treeio", "babelquarto", "babeldown")'
         
 
       - name: Render Book