Dr. Emilia Noormahomed: MEPI Principal Investigator, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

Abstract

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.