PublicHealth.Africa

PublicHealth.Africa is one of the initiatives to grow from Peoples-uni which has now closed. As with Peoples-uni, all activities will be online, and utilise the power of collaboration through the Internet.
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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.

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Our Mission

Leverage the strengths of African public health graduates through:

  • An alumni-led identification and prioritisation of problems that need to be addressed by the African and the global public health communities through research and evidence;
  • Build ongoing connections with leading Public Health academics (and academic organisations) to develop a research agenda around the prioritised problems;
  • Utilise the social capital of both the existent alumni network and the invited policy and academic network members to develop actions and strategies around the prioritised areas for action.
  • Education – to build on the expertise of the Alumni (and similar) to 'snowball' capacity building through online courses. This would include hybrid courses with face-to-face components, and short courses.
  • Research – to perform collaborative research among the members and partners to tackle the prioritised problems

    • Free Online Courses

    PublicHealth.Africa and Peoples-Praxis have a strategic partnership due to our shared goals in building public health capacity in Africa. Peoples-Praxis is dedicated to ‘Putting theory into practice’, and ‘Empowering graduates to extend and apply their skills and knowledge towards improving the health of their population’. This is achieved via access to online resources and mentorship to help put public health skills and knowledge into practice. We have collaborated on the development of a set of free open online courses which are available for all to access, and are collaborating on further projects on Open Science.

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    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.