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Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC)
Institutions in charge of project: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Project description: The Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC), established in June 2008 with support from the Wellcome Trust, is designed to help able and motivated African scientists undertake high-quality research that will enhance the research capacity of their home institutions.
The programme will undertake capacity development in African universities that will not only lead to improvements in the malaria control measures available in Africa, but also stimulate research into the development of new ways to control the disease.
Partner institutions:
The Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC) is
a partnership of four European and five African partners.
All the European institutions involved in MCDC have many years' experience of
training scientists from developing countries. They collaborated very
successfully for seven years within the Gates Malaria Partnership. The five
African partners each have an established reputation in malaria research,
experience in postgraduate training and previous links with one or more of the
European partners.
The four European partners are:
- Center for Medical Parasitology, University of Copenhagen (CMP)
- DBL - Centre for Health Research and Development, University of Copenhagen (DBL)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
The five African universities (and supporting partners) are:
- College of Medicine, University of Malawi (CoM), and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
- Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi (KCMC), and the Joint Malaria Programme (JMP) Tanzania.
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
- Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Ministry of Health, Uganda.
- Faculty of Medicine, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (University of Dakar), Senegal and the Ministry of Health, Senegal.
Project team:
DBL will supervise 4 PhD students (2 from Makerere University, Uganda; 1 from KNUST, Ghana; 1 from University of Dakar, Senegal
Project start and end: June 2008 - May 2012
Contact person:
Dr Pascal Magnussen
MD, DTM&H, specialist in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases DBL - Centre for Health Research and Development, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
