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Zambia Education Network for Implementation Science Training in Health (ZENITH)

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

Fogarty HIV Research Training

Project Information in NIH RePORTER

Zambia Education Network for Implementation Science Training in Health (ZENITH)

Principal Institution

University of Maryland Baltimore

Principal Investigator(s) (PI)

Claassen, Cassidy W; Mulenga, Lloyd Berdard

Project Contact Information

Email: cclaassen@ihv.umaryland.edu

Year(s) Awarded

2023-2028

Country

Zambia

Collaborators

Zambia's University Teaching Hospital

NIH Partners

NICHD

Project Description

To reach HIV epidemic control, Zambia needs to develop local implementation science capacity to create innovative ways to reach key and vulnerable populations with HIV service delivery. To train this cadre of implementation scientists, the Zambia Education Network for Implementation Science Training in Health (ZENITH)—a partnership between Zambia's University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) that focuses on building implementation science (IS) capacity at UTH—will build implementation science capacity through:

  1. an implementation science institute at UTH (short-term training);
  2. an online Master of Health Science in implementation and dissemination science at UMB (medium term); and
  3. a Ph.D. at UMB (long term).

These will be coupled with twinned senior and junior mentors and a monthly seminar on Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) research.


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