By David Egilman MD, MPH Clinical Associate Prof Community Health
Are you interested in assisting the development of health professional’s education throughout Africa? Global Health through Education Training and Service (GHETS) is looking for interns to assist with a number of projects including support of the newly developed African Association of Health Institutions (AAHI).
AAHI developed out of a meeting in fall 2006, where a collection of academics from health institutions discussed the fact that there is no real equivalent to the American Association of Medical Colleges in Africa. Since African medical schools (and other health education institutions like nursing schools) are so under budgeted and overstretched, having a forum for collaboration and communication would be very helpful. Institutions could benefit from collective knowledge, tools, resources and experiences available regionally instead of depending on institutions in North America and Europe.
Currently, the organization consists of a taskforce with 4 members from different regions of Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Mozambique) who, since the inception of AAHI, have met three times to write a charted and draft a grant proposal. Intern projects assisting AAHI would include assistance in identifying funding sources for AAHI, publicity for the organization so as to increase membership (currently AAHI has members from approximately 30 institutions), research for a leadership development workshop members hope to hold in the near future, and development of a website for the organization.
For more information on this and other GHETS’ programs please see the our website at www.ghets.org
To learn more about GHETS intern positions, see out posting on idealist.org:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Internship/115526-156
GHETS offices are easily accessible by the commuter rail in Attleboro, MA
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