HI-TRAIN — Health Informatics Training and Research in East Africa for Improved Health Care — is a capacity-building programme that trains researchers and faculty to manage and advance digital health systems in East Africa.
Building regional capacity
Strong digital health systems need local people equipped to design and run them.
The challenge
East African universities needed stronger local capacity in health informatics.
- Limited regional health-informatics expertise
- Growing digital health systems to manage
The programme
Full-time PhD fellowships in a sandwich model between Makerere and Bergen.
- Three-year PhD fellowships
- Sandwich model: one year at the University of Bergen
- Gender-mainstreaming provisions for female students
Graduates committed to serving as health informatics faculty at their universities, building lasting regional capacity.
Alongside fellowships, the programme supported conferences, field studies, publications and travel — investing in a cohort of academics who would remain in East African universities to manage and advance digital health systems.
Collaborators
Moi University (Kenya); University of Bergen (Norway).