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Prof. Johnstone Kumwenda: University of Malawi, UNIMA, Internal medicine Our MEPI project is concerned with training our health staff on how to deal with HIV associated malignancies. We have three main aims and the first aim is to train a few scientists in how to carry out HIV associated malignancy surveillance. For this task we are training two people at a Masters’ of Public Health level at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. We chose two nurses to do an MPH at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. When they finish we hope they will help us to map out the HIV associated malignancies in Malawi.

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Dr. Miliard Derbew: Addis Ababa University (AAU), Department of Surgery The biggest challenges, when you live in a country where there is a lot of problems usually the resources needed to solve the problems will be very great, very much increased. The challenge is we have a lot of problems in front of us and we have limited resources, and since we are living in a country of, a big nation, 80 million, and now we have 23 medical schools and focusing on four medical schools only in Ethiopia out of 23 is a challenge because you know you can’t improve the health standard of the country just by changing a few schools, but you have to bring on board most of the schools. So this is one challenge because we cannot reach the other schools.

2012-09-24T00:00:00Z https://library.adhl.africa/handle/123456789/12468 2020-01-27T05:52:39Z 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Dr. Oathokwa Nkomazana: Associate Program Director at the University of Botswana School of Medicine. Oathokwa Nkomazana is my name and I come from Botswana. I work in the University of Botswana School of Medicine. I trained as an ophthalmologist but also in Public Health. Our MEPI project came in the second year of existence as a medical school, so we were really brand new. I think the MEPI just allowed us to do what we had planned to do anyway, but do it quicker and maybe in some ways even do it better because there were resources to ensure that we could do it better. And so we used the money to develop the curriculum, we used the money to develop and strengthen the infrastructure, especially the information technology infrastructure. We used the money for faculty development and also to establish what we call the health systems research unit, which we hope will evolve to a center.

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Prof. James Gita Hakim: MEPI Principal Investigator Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe The MEPI program in Zimbabwe started at exactly the same time as the other twelve MEPI programs, which was in October 2010. We had of course planned a comprehensive program while writing the competing application for the award. We had written what we thought was meritorious. When it was announced that we had won the grant, the immediate task was to translate all the activities that we had planned into practice. That is not always easy, especially with a program as complex as the MEPI program.

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Dr. Emilia Noormahomed: MEPI Principal Investigator, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique Our MEPI initiative has four main goals. One to increase the number and the quality of training of residents so that they will be the future faculty members for the three public universities in Mozambique and the others that will come later. The second goal is to develop the infrastructure for the research because we see that we are behind in the research. We don’t do much research in Mozambique due to diverse reasons. The third goal is to develop the infrastructure for bioinformatics. Since we are a country with a lack of human resources, and in fact MEPI came to overcome, to help overcome this issue. We are based in Maputo and until five years ago we were the only medical school in the country. Now there are two more public universities. But they face, they don’t have enough human resources for teaching. So with this bioinformatic infrastructure we’ll be able to support teaching through telemedicine, through video conferences.

2012-09-25T00:00:00Z https://library.adhl.africa/handle/123456789/12465 2020-01-27T05:59:52Z 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z

David Olufem Olaleye: MEPI Principal Investigator, Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria The biggest challenge is actually, you know, getting everyone on board. Getting all the stakeholders on board. Getting my colleagues to understand the conceptsthat we tryto put forward. This for me is understandable. I do not see it as a problem and I don’t want to see it as a problem, because these are the proposal concepts that a few of us responded to the RFA based on the initiative, which I every time said at every opportunity that this is a great initiative, coming from the US government through the NIH to empower the African institutions to restructure and enhance the medical education program in the continent. So we responded, and we responded based on our background coming from our involvement in the PEFA program. Some of us have been involved in the HIV programs, responding to the problem of HIV in the country, for well over 25 years. And people came in and they integrated this into a structured training program.

2012-09-01T00:00:00Z Mulla, Prof. Yakub https://library.adhl.africa/handle/123456789/12464 2020-01-27T06:03:05Z 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Prof. Yakub Mulla: MEPI Principal Investigator; Dean of Postgraduate Studies, University of Zambia, Zambia Mulla, Prof. Yakub Zambia is a country that attained independence in 1964. Two years later, in ‘66, the new medical school began, and population of Zambia has increased now from 4 million to 13 million. One of the failures of government has been the failure to increase the number of training, the training capacity for medical students. And for 45 years, even though it was initially in the health, strategic health plan to increase the number of spaces and to increase the training capacity for training medical graduates, there was no government drive to take up that initiative. I personally, as Dean of the School of Medicine over time had an opportunity to speak to three previous Ministers of Health, and I discussed with them whether it was possible for government to start a new medical school in Ndola. And I tried to convince them and make a point. But none of those ministers, including some of them that were doctors, could take up that initiative. In the last government just as MEPI came in, the new Minister of Health was an engineer. He was very energetic, young and over a conference on AIDs in Namibia, I had an opportunity to speak to him over a cup of tea and I told him of the health strategic plan and how we should have had a new medical school many years earlier, and that for 45 years government had not had a plan to start a new medical school.

2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Sewankambo, Professor Nelson https://library.adhl.africa/handle/123456789/12463 2020-01-27T05:56:59Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prof. Nelson Sewankambo: Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences; Chair Principal Investigators, Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Sewankambo, Professor Nelson Transcribed by Alison Oppenheim Date: October 18, 2012 Professor Nelson Sewankambo Principal (Head) of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. Chair Principal Investigators, Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Right from the beginning we decided that we will work on this as a network, as a consortium of institutions. At the time of planning and writing our proposal this looked like a dream that we may realize or not. And indeed it has come true. It is a great success having institutions across Uganda that are involved in medical education, working together for the common goal of assuring transformative medical education in the country. There are not many places that are doing this. As we know academic institutions, universities in particular, are usually in a spirit of competition, and here we are, we agreed to work together and it has been one of those very enjoyable opportunities for our institutions to be working very closely together. And we would like this sustained in the future.

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