Collaborative Psychosocial Capacity Building in Northern Uganda

Risky business: Capacity-building in collaborative research

The concept of capacity-building, originating in studies of economic development, operates as a powerful metaphor in arguments promoting collaborative research in education. This chapter interrogates the concept of capacity-building in that context by exploring the apparent contradiction of seeking to promote collaborative research in an increasingly competitive research funding environment, an...

Rapidly Building Global Health Security Capacity — Uganda Demonstration Project, 2013

Increasingly, the need to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats around the globe is being recognized. CDC, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), has committed to building capacity by assisting member states with strengthening their national capacity for integrated disease surveillance and response as required by International Heal...

A Health Department’s Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building

Introduction Public Health departments are increasingly called upon to be innovative in quality service delivery under a dwindling resource climate as highlighted in several publications of the Institute of Medicine. Collaboration with other entities in the delivery of core public health services has emerged as a recurring theme. One model of this collaboration is an academic health department:...

Uganda Lessons from Northern Uganda in Addressing Gender Based Violence

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia