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ReviewThe Lancet. Public health2024

The future of public health doctoral education in Africa: transforming higher education institutions to enhance research and practice.

Justine Bukenya, Derege Kebede, Henry Mwambi, Muhammed Pate, Philip Adongo, Yemane Berhane, Chelsey R Canavan, Tobias Chirwa, Olufunmilayo I Fawole, David Guwatudde and 9 more

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Review in The Lancet. Public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Justine BukenyaSchool of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Electronic address: jbukenya@musph.ac.ug.
Derege KebedeSchool of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Henry MwambiSchool of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Durban, South Africa.
Muhammed PateHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Philip AdongoSchool of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana; Association of Schools of Public Health in Africa, Accra, Ghana.
Yemane BerhaneAddis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Chelsey R CanavanHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Tobias ChirwaSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Olufunmilayo I FawoleFaculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
David GuwatuddeSchool of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Elizabeth JacksonHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Isabel MadzoreraHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Mosa MoshabelaVice Chancellor's Office, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Ayoade M J OduolaUniversity of Ibadan Research Foundation, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Bruno SunguyaMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Amadou SallInstitut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
Tajudeen RajiAfrica Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Wafaie FawziHarvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: mina@hsph.harvard.edu.
ARISE Public Health Education Team

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The African Union and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Call to Action in 2022 for Africa's New Public Health Order that underscored the need for increased capacity in the public health workforce. Additional domestic and global investments in public health workforce development are central to achieving the aspirations of Agenda 2063 of the African Union, which aims to build and accelerate the implementation of continental frameworks for equitable, people-centred growth and development. Recognising the crucial role of higher education and research, we assessed the capabilities of public health doctoral training in schools and programmes of public health in Africa across three conceptual components: instructional, institutional, and external. Six inter-related and actionable recommendations were derived to advance doctoral training, research, and practice capacity within and between universities. These can be achieved through equitable partnerships between universities, research centres, and national, regional, and global public health institutions.

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Education, GraduatePublic HealthAfricaEducation, Public Health ProfessionalHumansUniversities

Identifiers

PMID38735302
PMCPMC11209668

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