Official Launch of African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) Secretariat

AFREhealth is an independent body that emerged from the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI) which were funded by PEPFAR-NIH and awarded to selected African medical, nursing and health science schools.

The establishment of a permanent Secretariat in an AFREhealth-member institution was considered, right from the birth of AFREhealth as a critical milestone for nurturing an interdisciplinary health professions organization which will be self-sustaining, viable, relevant and impactful in addressing Africa’s health challenges.

On the 3 rd of February, 2020, AFREhealth’s permanent secretariat, hosted at the College of Health Sciences in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology – Kumasi, Ghana, was officially launched. The event was well graced by the presence of the Provost of the College of Health Sciences, KNUST, Prof Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Dr Flora Katz (NIH) and Dr Leslie Mancuso, Jhpiego CEO as well as AFREhealth’s President Governing Council members, the Executive Committee, Partners & Collaborators: the National Institutes of Health – USA, Infectious Diseases Institute – Makerere University, HW21/Jhpiego, media and many other dignitaries.

With the AFREhealth Secretariat in place, it is envisaged that AFREhealth will operate effectively and efficiently and will continue to implement its activities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Long live AFREhealth.

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The African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) is an interprofessional health grouping that seeks to work all stakeholders interested in health profession education , research and service delivery to improve the quality of health care in Africa through research, education and capacity building. It is a conglomerate of individuals, institutions, associations and networks from all the geographic and linguistic regions of Africa namely Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone and Arabophone. Read More...

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