FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (2/10/06)

Contact Information:
Tony Wagner
Tel: 202-478-4704
E-mail: HED@HEDprogram.org
Website: www.HEDprogram.org

NEW UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD LEADERSHIP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN EAST AFRICA
Partnership to Engage Public Health Leaders in Tanzania and Uganda

Washington, DC (December 9, 2005) - Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announces a new $2 million award to the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHU) to work with the College of Health Sciences at Muhimbili University in Tanzania and the Institute of Public Health at Makerere University in Uganda to provide African public health leaders with the training and skills needed to tackle the region’s most pressing public health challenges.

The partners are joined in a consortium comprising the Tulane University School of Public Health and tropical Medicine, the Tulane University School of Business, the George Washington University School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the World Bank Institute, the Uganda Management Institute, the East and Southern Africa Management Institute, and the London School of Economics.

The two-year partnership, sponsored by USAID’s Bureau of Global Health, will engage public health leaders to better envision, plan, implement, and manage effective responses to the health needs of East Africa. The partners will work collaboratively to mainstream leadership training, including skills for management, finance, administration, communication, and planning, within schools of public health in East Africa.

The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. For more information, please visit http://www.usaid.gov

The HED program engages the resources of higher education institutions in the United States and abroad for global social and economic development through human and institutional capacity building. HED assists the nation’s six major higher education associations and their members in partnering with USAID, as well as other development agencies and donor organizations. For more information about HED, please visit http://www.HEDprogram.org.

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