Table 1.
Overview of CHEPSAA partner organizations as of March 2012
| Country | Nigeria | Tanzania | Kenya | Ghana | South Africa |
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| Partner | HPRG-COMUNEC | IDS-UDSM | TICH-GLUK | SPH-UG | CHP-WITS | SOPH-UWC | HPSP/HEU-UCT |
| Relation with University | Academic unit reports to College | Institute reports to University | Institute reports to University | School reports to University | Centre reports to School | School reports to Faculty | Academic programme/unit reports to School |
| Vision of HPSR+A group | Health research and teaching orientated | Importance of teaching and research health to development | Sustainable Health and development | HPSR+A implicit but recognized | Explicit focus on HPSR+A | Explicit focus includes HSPR+A | Explicit focus on HPSR+A |
| Financing arrangements | Teaching time funding subsidizes research | No subsidies between teaching and research | No subsidies between research, teaching and consultancies | No subsidies between teaching and research | Research grants subsidize teaching time | No subsidies between teaching and research | Research grants subsidize teaching time |
| No of HPSR+A academic staff | 7 | 4 | 10 | 35 | 9 | 13 | 12 |
| No HPSR+A academics with doctorate degrees | 3 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Ratio of senior (Prof. and Assoc. Prof.) vs junior HPSR+A academic staff | 3:4 | 3:1 | 4:6 | 22:13 | 5:4 | 4:9 | 3:9 |
| No of support/administration staff | 4 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
| Main issues on infrastructure | Unreliable electricity, IT and teaching space | Unreliable electricity, teaching aids/space | Unreliable electricity, IT and teaching space | Unreliable access to electricity, teaching aids/space | No significant infrastructural constraints were reported | ||
| HPSR+A within wider institution | Cross college research group | Taught units in existing course/research projects | Taught units in existing courses/research projects | Taught units in existing courses/research projects | HPSR+A research as core function | Whole school orientation | Programme within wider academic group |
| Group’s thematic focus/expertise | Health policy and financing | Health policy | Health Policy and Planning & Health systems | Human resources, Maternal Health | Financing, Human resources, Universal coverage, Health systems and policy | Human resources, Health policy and systems, Information system | Health policy and systems, Financing and economics, Governance |
| No of current HPSR+A research projects | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 10 |
| Main HPSR+A teaching courses | MSc and PG diploma | MA in Dev-t Studies | MA in Community Health and Dev-t | MPH programme | MPH programme | MPH and PG diploma, short courses | MPH and PG diploma |
| No of core and elective modules focusing on HPSR+A | 9 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 7 |