Strengthening strategic capacity for nutrition in four African countries (632.14)

Mysore Declaration: capacity strengthening in nutrition.

Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries

Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experiences of five projects (in Bangladesh, Gambia, India and Nigeria), where collaborative teams of res...

Assessing and Strengthening African Universities' Capacity for Doctoral Programmes

1 Disease Control Strategy Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, 5 Department of Medical Parasitology, Dakar Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S...

Civil conflicts in four african countries: a five-year review of trends in nutrition and mortality.

Armed conflicts are defined as political conflicts in which armed combat involves the armed forces of at least one state or one or more armed factions seeking to gain control of all or part of the state, and in which at least 1,000 people have been killed by the fighting during the course of the conflict. Globally, the number of armed conflicts has been decreasing since 1995, when it peaked at ...

Strengthening the evidence base for nutrition and cancer in low and middle income countries

The rapid changes in nutritional patterns and ways and conditions of life occurring in in low– and middle–income countries (LMICs) are likely to be adversely affecting the incidence and survival rates of most cancers. These rapid changes raise challenges and opportunities in research on nutrition and cancer worldwide, and highlight the need for an integrated approach to determine global strateg...