Overview

To be able to address Africa's problems through effective policies and programs, Africa's policymakers require access to a broad range of timely, accurate, and relevant scientific evidence. As part of its contribution to strengthening institutional and professional capacity to enable African researchers to fully participate in defining and implementing priority population and health programs in the continent, APHRC has developed several research capacity strengthening initiatives including:

1. Post-Doctoral Fellowships
   The Post-Doctoral Fellowship program targets scholars who obtained a PhD or equivalent within the last two (2) years in either social sciences or public health, and demonstrated promise of intellectual leadership in a field relevant to the Center's mission
2. Sabbatical Fellowships
   This program targets senior university lecturers and scholars in other institutions with a proven track-record of conducting research.
3. Visiting Scholar Program
   The Visiting Scholars Program is aimed at facilitating research collaborations with partners from within and outside the program
4. Research Traineeships
   The Research Traineeship Program targets advanced doctoral students who seek to explore or define their thesis projects, or require field experience in Africa. These are short-term practical training fellowships
5. Internships
   This program targets young Africans (below 30 years) with masters-level training in the social sciences, health, or related fields. Through the program, trainees develop practical experience in research and are expected to proceed for their doctoral training at the end of the fellowship. Applications are reviewed quarterly.
6. Technical Workshops
   Technical workshops focus on theoretical, analytical and methodological developments in population, health, and development research to improve the skills of African scholars in designing projects and analyzing data. Recent Technical Workshops organized include:
   • Realizing Rights Scientific Writing Training for upcoming scholars from Africa and Asia, 2008
   • Training on Event History Analysis under the Urbanization, Povety, and Health Dynamics project, 2008
   • Scientific Writing Training Workshops, 2006
   • Burden of Disease Training Workshop, October 2006
   • Proposal Development Workshop, August 2004
   • UAPS Workshop, July 2004
   • Multi-Level Modeling and Analysis, October 2003
   • Millennium Development Goals: Workshop on Data and Indicators to Monitor Progress towards MDGs, September 2003
7. African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF)
8. Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)