USAID Provides Post-Graduate Academic Training for Key Personnel of the Ministry of Health

On October 19, 2007 USAID/Mozambique cting Mission Director Kevin Armstrong and USAID team received the students who just started their Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) to congratulate the grant recipients and encourage them for the next two years during which they will cumulate challenging professional requirements at Ministry of Health (MOH) and academic lectures and assignments at UEM. João Francisco, one of the students and biology and chemistry teacher at MOH expressed, on behalf of the group, appreciation for the support provided by USAID and demonstrated much optimism about the value added the course would bring to their future professional endeavors.

USAID Acting Mission Director Kevin Armstrong, the USAID Health
Team members, FORTE Saúde Ellen Eiseman and the group of students
posing after their meeting.

Post-graduate training includes 1 US, 5 third country and 8 in-country Master of Public Health degrees at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique.  Candidates receive language training mentoring and financial support to carry-out the thesis requirement of the degree programs.

Human resource training is fundamental for improvement in the quality of health services. As a contribution to this process, USAID, through FORTE Saúde assists in the provision of post-graduate academic training for key MOH personnel, curriculum review, training materials and refresher courses for trainers. FORTE Saúde also supports the management capacity strengthening for the nurses training institutions and supports two basic nurses’ courses in Nampula and one promotional in Zambezia.