Enhanced Advanced Biomedical Research Training

Project Title: Enhanced Advanced Biomedical Research Training for Mozambique – EABRTM
Project number: D43TW010135
Period of Performance: 01/08/2016 – 31/07/2019
Principal Investigator: Professor Emilia Noormahomed

Introduction:

EABRTM D43TW010135 is the code for the project named, “Enhanced Advanced Biomedical Research Training for Mozambique” whose aim is to leverage the knowledge of Mozambican physicians and scientists based at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), at the Maputo Central Hospital (MCH) and at the Mozambique National Institute of Health (INS), so that these institutions become the foundation of advanced training in biomedical and biosocial research in Mozambique. In fact, this project whose implementation period is from 2015 to 2020, and is funded by the Fogarty International Center, one of 27 institutions that make up the NIH (National Institute of Health) in the US with the mission to support global health, was inspired by the success of the cooperation program between the UEM, UCSD and MEPI, based on which various and relevant research papers were developed.

is the code for the project named, “Enhanced Biomedical Research Training for Mozambique” whose aim is to leverage the knowledge of Mozambican physicians and scientists based at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), at the Maputo Central Hospital (MCH) and at the National Institute of Health (NIH), so that these institutions become the foundation of advanced training in biomedical and biosocial research in Mozambique. In fact, this project whose implementation period is from 2015 to 2020, and is funded by the Fogarty International Centre, one of 27 institutions that make up the NIH (National Institute of Health) in the US with the mission to support global health, was inspired by the success of the cooperation program between the UEM, UCSD and MEPI, based on which various and relevant research papers were developed.

Activities carried out to date:

In this first year of implementation of the Project, the following program activities were developed:

• Conducting Short Courses that encompassed topics such as Epidemiologic Research Fundamentals, Qualitative Methodology Applied to Public Health, Protocols and Ethics in Scientific Research;
• Participation in Workshops and both National and International Scientific Meetings;
• Conducting meetings with different partners and focal points;
• Acquisition of an application for Financial Management and Human Resources, “PRIMAVERA”, to strengthen responsibility mechanisms and provision of accounts.

Partner institutions in this project are, the University of California San Diego, USA , the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and Stellenbosch University of South Africa.

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