Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data Science Training (APHREA-DST)
The following grant was awarded by, is supported by, is administered by or is in partnership with the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Funding Fogarty Program
Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through Data Science Training (APHREA-DST)
Principal Institution
Columbia University Health Sciences
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Berhane, Kiros T.; Bekele, Rahel; Weke, Patrick Oloo
Project Contact Information
Email:
ktb2132@cumc.columbia.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2021-2026
Country
Ethiopia; Kenya
Collaborators
Addis Ababa University
University of Nairobi
NIH Partners
OD/NIH; NIEHS
Project Description
The unprecedented availability of increasingly complex, voluminous, and multidimensional data and the emergence of data science as a field to harness it provide ideal opportunities to address the multifaceted public health challenges faced by countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a severe lack of well-trained data scientists and home-grown educational programs to enable context-specific training. This project plans to establish sustainable research training programs and to train a new generation of data scientists with skills, knowledge, mentoring, professional skills, and research immersion to position them for rigorous, biomedically grounded, and ethically conscious public health data science practice.
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