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Table 1 MPH focusing on health workforce development – profile of partner institutions

From: Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries

Collaborating institution

Year established

Mode of postgraduate teaching

Language

Permanent staff complement

No of MPH, PhD students 2012

School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa

1993, MPH in 1994

Distance learning, short face-to-face courses

Anglophone

11

284 MPH 44 PhD

Department of Community Health, University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique

1962 MPH in 2001

Face-to-face

Lusophone

12

37

School of Public Health, National University of Rwanda (NUR)

2001

Face-to-face

Francophone

18

176

School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia

1964- community health department MPH initiated in 1984

Face-to-face, resource based

Anglophone

25

110 MPH 10 PhD