
PublicHealth.Africa
Practice Areas
Building Public Health Capacity in Africa
Capacity Building
An alumni-led identification and prioritization of problems that need to be addressed by the African and the global public health communities through research and evidence.
Research
Collaborative research among the members of the Institute and partners to tackle the prioritized problems.
Advocacy
Using the social capital of the alumni network and the invited policy and academic network members to develop actions and strategies.
Policy
Creating “spaces” with African policymakers to support and spread the buy-in from governing organizations of the prioritized problems.
PublicHealth.Africa
African countries, as with other countries in the Global South, have major public health problems with an insufficient trained workforce and research leadership to respond to these problems.
Our Mission
Leverage the strengths of African public health graduates through:
PublicHealth.Africa will only thrive if good people join us. All who share a goal to improve public health in Africa through education and research are most welcome.