Imperial College London – National University of Rwanda Link
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Erin in Health Links
About the Link
Link is between the Global Health Institute, Imperial College, London and the Ministries of Education and Health in Rwanda and the National University of Rwanda.
It has developed from a link established in 2007 in Child Health, focussing on neonatology, with teach and training of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainees and nurses conducted by Dr Tom Lissauer, Consultant Neonatologist, Imperial College Healthcare Trust and other health professionals mainly at the University Hospitals in Butare and Kigali.
Fields of work
Maternal and Child Health, Research
Current activities
Current link activities are teaching and training as described above and acting as external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations in paediatrics.
Plans are underway by the Global health Institute (Director Prof Peter Piot) to establish a Masters programme in Epidemiology and to initiate research studies in chronic diseases.
Additional information
Rwanda has joined the East African Community and the Commonwealth and there is great eagerness to engage with the UK.
Link requests
Further funding is needed to enhance the programme.
Contact information
UK
Dr Tom Lissauer
Hon Consultant Neonatologist and Paediatric Programme Director
Institute of Global Health
Imperial College
15 Prince’s Gardens
London SW7 1NA
Mob: 07773050936
E-mail: t.lissauer@imperial.ac.uk
Dr Lissauer is also Honourary Medical Adviser in Child Health
THET (Tropical Health Education Trust)
Royal Society of Medicine
1 Wimpole St
London W1G 0AE
E-mail: tom@thet.org
Rwanda
Prof John Iraka
Prof of Paediatrics
or
Patrick Kyamanywa
Dean of the University
National University of Rwanda
Butare, Rwanda
Email: pkyamanywa@nur.ac.rw
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