Group lead: Rebecca Nekaka, Busitema University, Uganda
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The Health Professions Education Research Technical Working Group (HPER TWG) is one of the most vibrant working groups within the AFREhealth community. Health Professions Education is a field that is gaining momentum in Africa. This is because having quality health professionals serving the community requires having quality pre-service training underpinned by the best evidence available from within our own context. The HPER TWG brings together like-minded professionals from across various disciplines on the continent to form a community of practice that is focused on advancing scholarship in health professions education and eventually improving the quality of training.

Group lead: Ms Judy Khanyola, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
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Interprofessional education involves educators and learners from 2 or more health professions and their foundational disciplines who jointly create and foster a collaborative learning environment. The goal of these efforts is to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that result in interprofessional team behaviors and competence. Ideally, interprofessional education is incorporated throughout the entire curriculum in a vertically and horizontally integrated fashion. Interprofessional education therefore emphasizes collaborative practice that aims at promoting the working relationships between two or more healthcare professions.

Group lead: Mordecai Tayebwa, Makerere University
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The Research Support Centre Technical Working Group is platform for collaboration, learning and networking for people working in institutional research structures to enhance the quantity and quality of research through focused strengthening of research support. The structures may include Research Administration/Management/Support Centres/Units or health research institutes/units or programs. These structures may be at central, faculty or departmental levels. Key to the RSC TWG is to ensure that research organization and implementation is effectively and efficiently supported within institutions.

Group lead: Heavenlight Luzinge; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Tanzania
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Education is presently undergoing a dramatic transformation; the concept of e-learning is now becoming a new reality in higher education. E-learning is a convenient term to cover a range of uses of technology for teaching and learning, It can also be better defined as all computer and Internet-based activities that support teaching and learning both on and off campus. Having realised the importance of Information Communication Technologies in support learning AFREhealth prioritise e-learning as one of the technical working group to build an impactful technology apprised community.

Group lead: Alison Annet Kinengyere, PhD, Makerere University
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The health sciences library plays a central role in supporting learning, teaching, research and patient care. The health sciences librarians therefore, must be equipped with skills and competences to support those core activities in their respective academic and research institutions.
The Library and Information Science TWG (LIS) therefore, is a group of librarians and information specialists from AFREhealth member institutions that are working together to support our institutions in the following ways:

Group Lead: Prof. Adesola Ogunniyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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Competence is the ability to do something well. For the training of health workers, competence entails the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and the community being served. This has become the bedrock of the training of health workers and is reflected in the shift in training paradigm from traditional methods.

Group Lead: Dr Raymond Oppong, PhD, University of Birmingham
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The Health Economics Technical Working Group (HE TWG) is a newly created working group within AFREhealth. Health Economics is the application of economics to health to deal with the problems associated with resource scarcity, which is a feature of every sector of the economy. As a result of this resource scarcity, important choices have to be made with respect to how best to use the available resources. Health Economics is a growing field and particularly important in resource limited settings such as Africa.

Group Lead: Patrick Katoto
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The Graduate Tracking Technical Working Groups (GTTWG) of AFREhealth aims to track the progress of health professionals who have graduated from educational institutions in Africa. This framework outlines the components of the GTTWG to ensure its success in achieving its goals and aligning with the mission and values of AFREhealth.

Group lead: Samuel Ajayi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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The Technical Working Group (TWG) brings together health practitioners from various disciplines interested in monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment. It provides the platform for collaboration, networking and sharing international best practices. The TWG supports the AFREhealth and its members to monitor and evaluate its programs to assure quality and impact.

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