Project in Kenya

students in kenyaInvestigators:

African Population Health Research Center (APHRC)

Additional support:

Diana Awuor, Training Program Assistant 

Candidates at the Masters and PhD levels are welcome to get involved with different types of research projects: Projects are currently evolving, but trainees will be able to select from several areas including: data measurement, maternal and child well-being, urban health, and/or urbanization and well-being in Africa.

PROJECT 1

Anticipated activities include:

The Data Science and Evaluation Program has been tasked to map longitudinal datasets in mental health in Africa. This is going to be done in collaboration with the I-DAIR project that recently launched an online tool that maps all mental health researchers in the global north and south. We would like students’ support to review the R&D tool extract data on African mental health researchers. The students will be expected to prepare a final sheet with researchers /studies with longitudinal mental health data, identify the key variables collected in preparation for a large African data repository on MH data. The R&D tool is found at: https://mentalhealth.i-dair.org/#/guide-dashboard. 

Techniques/methods students should have familiarity with:

  • Ability to fully engage with on mapping tools
  • Work comfortably with MS Excel for recording data records and perform basic descriptive analysis from the generated data
  • Presentation skills
  • Writing skills to summarize findings from the mapping exercise
     

PROJECT 2

Anticipated activities include:

Through strategic partnerships, the Research and Capacity Strenthening (RRCS) Center strives to nurture African research leadership by building a critical mass of researchers to meaningfully engage with policy actors in developing, reviewing and implementing policies and programs relevant to the continent’s development.  The Training Unit within the Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) division will be collecting follow-up data using both quantitative (online surveys) and qualitative (interviews and focus group discussions [FGDs]) to examine the impact of short course training conducted. The short courses focus on different topics including Implementation Research; Research Governance and Leadership; Violence Against Women Data Collection, Analysis, and Use; Systematic Review and meta-Analysis. The interns/fellows  would support data collection, analysis, and report preparation, including writing scientific papers based on data from these activities.


Techniques/methods students should have Familiarity with:

  1. Ability to fully engage with on mapping tools
  2. Work comfortably with MS Excel for recording data records and perform basic
    descriptive analysis from the generated data
  3. Presentation skills
  4. Writing skills to summarize findings from the mapping exercise 

A note about Nairobi, Kenya: 
Nairobi is the capital and largest city in Kenya with 2.7 million people living in the capital.  

A note about the host site:
The African Population and Health Research Center is the continent’s premier research institution and think tank, generating evidence to drive policy action to improve the health and well-being of African people. As a progressive African-led global research center invested in creating legacy impact, our work is centered in three integrated programmatic divisions: