TY - JOUR AU - Amde, Woldekidan Kifle AU - Sanders, David AU - Lehmann, Uta PY - 2014 DA - 2014/05/30 TI - Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries JO - Human Resources for Health SP - 31 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Health systems in many low-income countries remain fragile, and the record of human resource planning and management in Ministries of Health very uneven. Public health training institutions face the dual challenge of building human resources capacity in ministries and health services while alleviating and improving their own capacity constraints. This paper reports on an initiative aimed at addressing this dual challenge through the development and implementation of a joint Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme with a focus on health workforce development by four academic institutions from East and Southern Africa and the building of a joint teaching platform. SN - 1478-4491 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-12-31 DO - 10.1186/1478-4491-12-31 ID - Amde2014 ER -