Child Health and Nutrition Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Regional Profile of Research Priorities and Role Players
University of Cape Town, South Africa was awarded RFP-1 to assess regional profile of research activities and role players in Sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty countries were selected as samples; those were again divided into sub-regions for simplifying communication and data collection given the distinctive languages in the regions. The sub-regions were the Anglophone West African region with Ghana and Nigeria; the Francophone West African region with Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Faso, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Conakry, Mali and Senegal; the East Africa region with Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania; the Southern African region with Angola, Mauritius, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The project was successfully completed in 2006.
OCHRC published the monograph of this study, “Child Health and Nutrition Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Regional Profile of Research Priorities and Role Players”. The monograph describes the national research priorities, outcomes of priority setting process, sentinel health conditions, gaps in current child health and nutrition (CHN) research agendas and key challenges for research in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study also developed a database of role players in the regions that includes profile of their research interests, capacity building activities for child health workers, results of their funded researches and implementations of their research results to policies and clinical practices.
The organizations from the selected Sub-Saharan countries that participated to produce this report are (alphabetically):
Cameroon: Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé and INCLEN Africa
Kenya: Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi and INCLEN Africa
Nigeria: Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, University of Calabar
South Africa: School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town
