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THRiVE Annual Meetings
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On a rotating basis annual meetings are held at an African partner institution. Each meeting is split into two parts; scientific and administrative. The former is attended by MSc students, PhD and post-doctoral fellows supported by the consortium, their supervisors, partners in research and institutional research leaders. Committee meetings also take place during the annual meeting. Advisory board members and Wellcome trust officers are invited to attend. THRiVE 6th AGM 2014 - NIMR MWANZA.
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PhD Training
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Dr Florida Joseph Muro. Humphrey D.L. Mazigo. Page 1 of 5. THRiVE - 1 PhD Fellows. The THRiVE consortium has provided financial support to fourteen East African students for four year PhD fellowships. The training is tenable at the THRiVE African institutions with a provision for trainees to spend up to a year at either University of Cambridge or London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Position : Lecturere , Makerere University College of Health Sciences. Perceived challenges to health seeking and.
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Equipment Grants
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THRiVE has awarded equipment grants to PhD fellows and other researchers allow them acquire equipment that are useful for their research activities. Causes and predictors of acute respiratory infection in children at varying malaria transmission intensity in Tanzania". Camera, Spot lights, Voice recorder, GPS, Digital Room Thermometer, Oximeter, software (Stata version 12, Stat/ transfer, Nvivo and ArcGIS software). Rotaviruses in Uganda: Molecular epidemiology and potential of zoonotic transmission".
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Knowledge Translation
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Knowledge Translation Office - IKT. The IKT office also supports researchers to synthesize and communicate their findings in a consumer friendly way but also engages the policy makers, practitioners and the public to understand science and use research evidence in day-to-day decision making.
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Partners
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Page 1 of 2. THRiVE is collaborating with some of the best universities and research institutes in East Africa (EA) with support from two leading UK universities. African Partner Academic Institutions. The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE). Brings to the consortium a firm basis to develop and mount a regional training programme in Medical Entomology for integrated control of vector borne diseases. Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College (KCMC). Was founded in 1971 as a referral ...
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THRiVE - Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa
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Applications are invited for PhD and post-doctoral fellowships run by THRiVE, a DELTAS Africa consortium of East African Universities (Makerere University, Gulu University and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University Col. THRiVE has started to realize outputs from its capacity building initiative. Out of the 14 PhD fellows recruited in 2010, 4 have successfully defended their Phd thesis. Stella Kepha based in kenya, Humphery Mazigo in Tan. THRiVE administrative staff have been supported to attend a two y...
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Postdoctoral Training
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THRiVE has supported up to ten (10) Postdoctoral fellowship training in the region. Two year postdoctoral awards that include stipends, university fees, research costs, and travel and conference expenses have been offered to five successful applicants in the region. Phase 2 Postdoctoral Funding 2014. Dr Fatuma Namusoke is a Lecturer in Makerere University College of Health Sciences Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Dr Eva Prosper Muro. George is a clinical epidemiologist with a PhD in internation...
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INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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With THRiVE's initiative to improve ICT infrastructure in African institutions to support online collaboration and promote research activitiesl. Over the past four years, institutions have manage to upgrade their bandwidth capacity as shown below;. 1 mbps - dedicated. 10 mbps - shared. Makerere University college of Health Sciences. Wireless outdoor internet access points have been installed at the Faculty of Medicine. Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI). National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza.
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Joint Appointments
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Institutions have strengthened a system of cross appointments where university researchers have been given adjunct appointments at the research institutes while staff of the research institutes have been appointed as adjunct university staff.
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