CAPSTONE WESTAFRICA PROJECT

Capacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary education for non-communicable disease care in West Africa

Project seeks to address the urgent need to educate and develop a health workforce that can respond to the steady increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan African countries.

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CAPSTONE Holds A Consortium Meeting In Utrecht, The Netherlands CAPSTONE Holds A Stakeholder Meeting On NCD Curriculum Development in Ghana CAPSTONE Holds First Community Of Practice For NCD Care And Management in Ghana CAPSTONE Participates In A Project That Addresses The Commercial Determinants Of Health in SSA UHAS Hosts CAPSTONE Consortium Meeting And Train The Trainer Workshop

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Our project seeks to address the urgent need to educate and develop

A health workforce that can respond to the steady increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan African countries.

This new workforce should contain doctors, nurses, allied and other health professionals who are specialised in screening, treating and referring patients with NCDs at all levels of the health care system.

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project summary

We building capacity through:

Collaborative co-development and delivery of 6 new NCD focused courses...

Training of up to 50 teachers in innovative teaching methods and techniques.

Bringing together of health care professionals from different disciplines and levels...

Active engagement of and outcomes for students and future employers

Fostering of international connections in health science education and capacity strengthening...

At the end of the 3-year programme the developed curriculum will be disseminated to other HEIs