As an individual member of AFREhealth, you will:

  • Grow professionally via robust e-learning platforms, the Annual Symposium held every year in a different African capital, regional conferences delivered in Francophone and Lusophone speaking countries, and participating in AFREhealth’s Technical Working Groups.
  • Participate as a researcher or implementer in AFREhealth grants as well as provide strength and weight to grant applications. As AFREhealth starts applying for grants and other funding mechanisms, priority for participation will be given to members.
  • Collaborate with seasoned multidisciplinary health professionals to access scientific ratings and student exchanges, obtain consultancies, and become an external examiner.
  • Access valuable education, research, and service content such as best practices, systematic reviews, publications, teaching and learning materials.
  • Network inter-professionally and intra-country with like-minded peers across multiple health and related disciplines and communities of practice to pursue scholarship and excellence within your own field.
  • Interact with senior health professionals in Africa who can advise and mentor young emerging academics.
  • Make your voice heard by participating in AFREhealth committees and having the opportunity to serve on AFREhealth’s Governing Council.

As an institutional member, your institution will:

  • Gain access to funding opportunities and become eligible to receive AFREhealth grants as well as provide strength and weight to grant applications.
  • Connect with experienced, renowned academics and institutional leaders at leading universities, academic institutions, and national, regional and global health professions’ education and research organizations who can 1) advise on policy development, accreditation, regulation, education, expert opinions, scientific collaborations and working groups and research, and 2) fill a health education and research gap in your institution.
  • Expand your institutional knowledge by engaging in student clinical exchanges, sharing resources and publications, and accessing university libraries.
  • Broaden exposure to national, regional, and global audiences through peer-reviewed publications.
  • Contribute to AFREhealth’s Communities of Practice such as interprofessional education and research, primary health, medicine, surgery, medical and surgical specializations, nursing and midwifery, advanced nursing practice, medical education and research, and health policy.
  • Become a part of AFREhealth’s continental-wide constituency that advocates for health professions education, research, and service.
  • Easily access health and academic expertise by advertising available health and academic jobs, internships, and consultancies on AFREhealth’s website.

About us

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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Phone:
Mobile (Whatsapp): +233 50 835 1306 
Office: +233 32 249 6882

Email:
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Location:
School of Public Health
College of Health Sciences
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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