HePEd - Improving Health Professional Education and capacity in Experimental epidemiology – Bergen-Makerere

To achieve this goal, the project team will: (a) strengthen health professional educational partnerships, (b) increase the use of health profession best education practices in peripheral institutions in Uganda, (c) increasing the internationalization of health professional programs at both partner universities and train trainers in experimental epidemiology. This will be achieved through: (a) Benchmarking visits (b) internationalization of master’s health professional programs through student mobility (c) supporting the development of a health professions community of best practice (d) joint supervision of PhD candidates, (e) workshops, and (f) influence policy through dissemination meetings. By the end of the five years, the project will have (a) developed a contextualized model that supports the development of
discipline specific expertise in teaching and learning within the southern partner and other medical schools in Uganda and (b) established a strong community of trainers in experimental epidemiology able to improve public health by focused research projects. The partners are the University of Bergen (UiB), led by its Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TeLEd) research group, Dept of Education together with the Centre for International Health; and Makerere University (Mak), led by the College of Health Sciences health professions education team, together with the School of Public Health, building on 30-years of highly successful UiBMak partnership.