The Malaysian Global Health Consortium (MGHC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, have joined TDR’s expanding international network of research training institutions, further advancing our initiative to strengthen implementation research capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
Université Cheikh Anta Diop is the new sub-regional training centre for the West Africa sub-region and also joins TDR’s Postgraduate Training Scheme, filling the training gap in French-speaking countries. MGHC in Malaysia is the new Regional Training Centre (RTC) for the Western Pacific Region.
“We are very proud to join TDR’s training network and look forward to helping develop research capacity in Senegal and neighbouring countries,” said Adama Faye, Director of the Health and Development Institute at Université Cheikh Anta Diop.
Université Cheikh Anta Diop hosts the Institut de Santé et Développement, which has a strong track record of working with Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Welfare to support training, research and implementation of health interventions, and is part of the network of excellence for training public health specialists in West Africa. This will facilitate the university’s role as a sub-Regional Training Centre in disseminating training courses on implementation research, as well as training master’s students through the Postgraduate Training Scheme.
The MGHC is a consortium of three institutions: the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), the Malaysian Ministry of Health’s Institute for Health Systems Research and the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaya.
This is the first time that a consortium, rather than a single institution, will undertake RTC activities. The partnership draws together the expertise of each institution to create a unique RTC with specialties in methodological approaches for implementation research, international bioethics training and applied health systems research, as well as a long-standing postgraduate training programme in public health. The University of Malaya was recently awarded grants in IR and bioethics trainings by the Fogarty International Centre at the National Institutes of Health in the United States of America.
For more information, please contact Dr Pascal Launois