African Research Institutions Archive

African Research Institutions

The institutions are productive research-active centers, with multidisciplinary research teams, operating within strong research environments. Their roles in CARTA include:

Promoting and ensuring the visibility of the CARTA Program
Providing research capacity-building opportunities to CARTA fellows
Identifying and facilitating CARTA fellows’ academic excellence and career development
Hosting post-doctoral fellows and faculty visits and offering supervisors for PhD fellows
Providing support to CARTA research capacity strengthening activities, including facilitation of sessions, curriculum/module development, grant proposal development, and participation in CARTA ad hoc scientific advisory groups

Mainstreaming CARTA interventions in the institutions
Offering specialized training in areas of expertise
Being role models for research leadership and mentoring the CARTA Early Career Researchers (ECRs)
Providing access to their own and their inter-linked networks
Providing opportunities for exchange, placements, and training at PhD, post-doctoral and senior faculty levels

African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)

APHRC is a leading pan-African research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that conducts high quality policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues across Africa. APHRC actively engages policymakers and other key stakeholders to achieve measurable...

Agincourt MRC, South Africa

The Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), located in rural northeast South Africa close to the Mozambique border, provides the foundation for the Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) and University...

Ifakara Health Institute

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is one of Africa’s most eminent health research organisations. With a history of more than 50 years, IHI is an independent, non-profit organisation, registered in Tanzania and led by Tanzanians. IHI conducts a wide range of...

KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme

The KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) is based within the KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medical Research – (Coast). Our core activities are funded by the Wellcome Trust. We conduct integrated epidemiological, social, laboratory and clinical research in parallel, with...