Intellectual Resource Mobilization

Background

The Ministry of Health, the Department of Community Medicine at Addis Abeba University, and ENAHPA agreed to focus on the skills gap identified by the country's projected health manpower needs. The lack of adequate number of physicians, nurses and health officers were identified as priority areas of focus.

 

Project goals

1. To develop inter-institutional relationships between US and Ethiopian training centers. To this end ENAHPA has solicited and obtained the collaboration of the University of Washington MEDEX program which trains Physician's Assistants and the School of Nursing and The Physican's Assistants School at Emory University.

   Project contact persons:

   Dorothy Fitzmaurice Asqual Getaneh

   How you can help us:

   • Financial donation
   • Identifying funding sources
   • Grant writing
   • Providing your technical expertise

    

2. Assist the new graduate public health program at Jimma Univerisity in its effort to educate and train the new type of public health worker in community-based approach, who could be responsive to the needs of society, to produce professionals with a capacity to lead, and to build effective coalitions with partners in health·

   The University has an acute shortage of faculty and is asking for help. It will accept short-term as well as long-term visiting professors. Its curricula include:

   
   
    

   Curriculum	Credits
   Principles of Epidemiology	4
   Principles of Health Management	4
   Principles of Health Education	4
   Basic Biostatistics	4
   Nutrition	2
   MCH	2
   Environmental Health	2
   Research Methods	2
   Advanced Epidemiology and Biostatistics	4
   Disease Control and Prevention	3
   Chronic Diseases	2
   Emergency Management and Preparedness	2
   Writing and Peer Reviewing	2
   Health and Health Related Polices	3
   Advanced Course in Health Service Management	4
   Health Economics	4
   Hospital Management	2
   Health Ethics and Legal Medicine	1
   Reproductive health
   Gender, Health and Development	3
   Contraceptive Technology
   STI's
   Adolescence and Adolescent Health Care
   HIV Infection in Children, Adolescents and Women
   Basic Demographic Methods and Population Studies
   IEC in RH

For more information on how you can contribute, please contact:

Dr. Senait Kebede: Skebede55@yahoo.com

Prof. Makonnen Asefa: makonnen_asefa@yahoo.com
 

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