Optimisation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to address African health-care challenges

Post Date: 
2014-06-25
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Countries: 
Uganda
Publication: 
The Lancet Global Health
Summary: 

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is an innovative and potentially transformative 5-year programme, established by the US Government in 2010, to increase the number of doctors to meet crucial human resource needs in sub-Saharan Africa.1 MEPI allows African institutions that are the direct grantees to define and direct programmes to address their own crucial gaps in medical education and workforce shortages in partnership with US academic partners.

Citation: 
Manabe YC, Campbell JD, Ovuga E, Maling S, Bollinger RC, Sewankambo N. Optimisation of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative to address African health-care challenges. Lancet Glob Health. 2014 Jul;2(7):e392. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70235-9. Epub 2014 Jun 25. PMID:25103390
Staff: 
Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH
Yukari C. Manabe, MD
Collaborators: 


  • Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda


  • Department of Pediatrics, Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD


  • Gulu University Medical School, Gulu, Uganda


  • Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda


  • Makerere University College of Health Sciences, PO Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda 

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