Coordinating Office for Global Health - DGPHCD
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Program Overview
Start date 2001Partners
- University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine
- Global AIDS Program, Zimbabwe
- Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MOHCW), Zimbabwe
Program description
The MPH Program started in 1994 with a CDC-trained resident advisor and has been directed by a program graduate since 1996, Dr. Mufuta Tshimanga. It is a collaboration between the MOHCW and the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe.
DGPHD became more actively involved in 2001 to support expansion of the public health training and to develop the HIV/AIDS module for the program using Global AIDS Program and USAID funding. The Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development (DGPHCD) has continued to support strengthening of the epidemiology and biostatistics training and to support the HIV/AIDS course that is now taught yearly.
DGPHCD role
- Provide technical and financial assistance to the University of Zimbabwe Department of Community Medicine Masters in Public Health Program (UZDCMMPHP) to develop and implement strategies to increase enrollment in the program
- Provide technical support to UZDCMMPHP to enhance the quantity and quality of applied epidemiology training and HIV/AIDS epidemiology training
Key achievements
- Provided mentoring and support of Zimbabwe student field activities
- Assisted in epidemiology teaching
- Created and provided epidemiology course resource CD
- Continued support of EpiTrack for monitoring program/student progress
- Provided final version of Advanced Data Management and Analysis Training using Zimbabwe study
- Supported HIV/AIDS course and development of resource CD
Next steps or future plans
- Continue same level of support as long as financial resources allow
- Support involvement of Zimbabwe Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOW) in the AFENET cooperative agreement
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