Archive: Medical Education Partnership Initiative
(MEPI)
Status:
No plans to recompete at this time
Announcement(s)
Program Overview
The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funded foreign institutions
in sub-Saharan African countries that receive PEPFAR support and their partners to develop or expand and enhance models of medical education. Initial MEPI grants received support from 2010 through 2015.
MEPI aimed to advance
PEPFAR's goal of increasing the number of new health care workers by 140,000; strengthen in-country medical education systems; and build clinical and research capacity in Africa as part of a retention strategy for faculty of medical schools and clinical professors.
MEPI supported African institutions in a dozen countries, forming a network including more than 30 regional partners, country health and education ministries, and more than 20 U.S. and foreign collaborators.
NIH support for Research Training for Career Development of Junior Faculty in MEPI Institutions
Since 2015, NIH has been supporting
Research Training for Career Development of Junior Faculty in Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Institutions to strengthen the capacity of MEPI institutions to participate in and carry out locally relevant research that contributes to improved human health, and to foster the next generation of faculty researchers in Africa.
MEPI News and Information
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Focus: MEPI program enabled African junior faculty to develop research skills, become independent investigators
Mar / Apr 2021 Global Health Matters - Africa’s health, research workforce gets $26M boost
Sep / Oct 2018
Global Health Matters -
The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Strengthening human resources to end AIDS and improve health in Africa [Open access], co-authored by Fogarty leadership
Academic Medicine, November 2019 (published online October 2018) -
Special Issue on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI)
Annals of Global Health, April 30, 2018 -
Fogarty continues to advance African health education
Jan / Feb 2018
Global Health Matters -
Medical education in decentralized settings: how [MEPI] medical students contribute to health care in 10 sub-Saharan African countries
Academic Medicine, October 17, 2017 -
Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth
The Lancet Global Health, October 1, 2017 -
African medical education program enters next phase
Sep / Oct 2016
Global Health Matters -
Continuing to strengthen science capacity in Africa
Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
Sep / Oct 2016
Global Health Matters -
Establishing an African association for health professions education and research
The National Academies Press, April 19, 2016 -
Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi
Implementation Science, March 8, 2016 -
Africa's leadership in biomedical research: Shifting the center of gravity
Science Translational Medicine, November 18, 2015 -
NIH awards $36M to train junior faculty in Africa through MEPI program
Sep / Oct 2015
Global Health Matters -
NIH prepares for new MEPI research support in Africa
Sep / Oct 2014
Global Health Matters -
Africa, with U.S. help, graduates more doctors
New York Times, August 11, 2014 -
African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report
Fogarty news, July 30, 2014 -
African medical schools see profound culture change
Sep / Oct 2013
Global Health Matters -
Africa transforms its medical education with Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
Sep / Oct 2012
Global Health Matters -
Building a health care workforce in Africa
Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
Sep / Oct 2012
Global Health Matters -
MEPI sites awarded $2.3 M to strengthen research management
Fogarty news, June 2012 -
HHS partners with PEPFAR to transform African medical education with $130 million investment
Sep / Oct 2010
Global Health Matters
Inquiries
Flora N. Katz, Ph.D.
Director, Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, B2C39
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220 USA
Phone: 301-402-9591
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: flora.katz@nih.gov
Partners
Largely funded by the
Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is jointly administered by the
Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (FIC/NIH) and the
HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (GHAP/HAB/HRSA).
Lead Funders
Administrators
NIH Funding Partners
Collaborators
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Last Updated:
4/14/2021 4:31 PM