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Capacity-building for Equitable Global Health Research From Africa: The Power of Two
(Springer, 2016) Cubaka, Vincent Kalumire; Schriver, Michael; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Cotton, Philip; Kallestrup, Per
The editorial ‘‘Productive global health research from Africa: it takes more’’ (Waiswa 2015) is an important awakening for global health professionals to the challenges for carrying out effective research in Africa. Our experience is from a twinning partnership for capacity-building for global health research through a Ph.D. at the University of Rwanda and Aarhus University in Denmark (Schriver et al. 2015). We adopted a twinning model based in Rwanda linking a Ph.D. student from each country.
The Desired Rwandan Health Care Provider: Development and Delivery of Undergraduate Social and Community Medicine Training
(Taylor & Francis Inc , 530 Walnut Street, Ste 850, Philadelphia, USA, PA, 19106, 2015) Flinkenflögel, Maaike; Cubaka, Vincent Kalumire; Schriver, Michael; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Muhumuza, Ibra; Kallestrup, Per; Cotton, Phil
What works well in primary care education in your locality, region or country? • The new undergraduate social and community medicine training (iSOCO) in Rwanda focuses on crosscutting skills, knowledge and attitudes in primary health care delivery. What challenges have you faced? • Challenges faced include programme sustainability (PHC), large student group teaching, limited resources and students being unfamiliar with the new online teaching platform with unstable internet accessibility. How have you addressed them? • The iSOCO development and teaching team was motivated to work with the limited resources available and to develop an innovative training with available resources. Strong focus of the Ministry of Health on PHC, the need of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences to become more socially accountable and long-term commitment of external partners increased the programme sustainability. What is the generalisable learning? • When students are exposed to the principles of PHC and social and community medicine early in the medical education, it is more likely they will become patient-centred and community-oriented health care providers who are good communicators, collaborators, managers, scholars, health advocates and professionals, as described in the ‘desired Rwandan health care. provider
Twinning Ph. D. Students From South and North: Towards Equity in Collaborative Research
(Taylor & Francis Inc , 530 Walnut Street, Ste 850, Philadelphia, Usa, Pa, 19106, 2015) Schriver, Michael; Cubaka, Vincent Kalumire; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Cotton, Phil; Kallestrup, Per
What works well in primary care education in your locality, region or country? • In this case, we focus on primary care research education. Twinning of individual Ph.D. students under strong institutional south–south or south–north partnerships may help build capacity for locally anchored primary care research potentially unaddressed by other projects and organisations, as well as enforce the quality of research and learning outcomes What challenges have you faced? • The high level of interdependency and sharing between the Ph.D. twins entails risks for project completion. Also, differences between the twins, their institutions and their country regulations pose challenges both for formal requirements and daily collaboration How have you addressed them? • Advocacy, timely planning, institutional commitment and information sharing at administrative levels help facilitate formal and informal institutional collaboration. Social investment, friendship, flexibility and alignment of expectations of the twins help streamline daily collaboration. Local employment of southern twin and inclusion of bilateral co-supervisors anchor the project locally What is the generalisable learning? • This pilot of matching and twinning Ph.D. students shows potential for equitable research capacity building in resource-constrained settings. It extends principles of collaborative learning to the doctoral level where the Ph.D. twins may compensate and challenge each other as well as share benefits and risks, successes and failures, joys and frustrations in their work, synergistically empowering one another as international collaborators, communicators and researchers