📋 Tender Overview
The CAPacity Strengthening of Transdisciplinary education for nON-communicable disease care in WEst Africa (CAPSTONE) project seeks to address the urgent need to educate and develop a health workforce that can respond to the steady increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan African countries.
This new workforce should contain doctors, nurses, allied and other health professionals who are specialised in screening, treating and referring patients with NCDs at all levels of the health care system. Traditionally higher education for these health care professionals has focused on infectious diseases and takes place in silos with little to no interaction between the different health care workers during their education. CAPSTONE will build capacity at the participating higher education institutions (HEIs) to develop and deliver transdisciplinary challenge-based NCD education in Ghana and The Gambia, targeting the healthcare workforce of the future.
Capacity building will take place through:
? the collaborative co-development and delivery of 6 new NCD focused courses, that can be offered as accredited short courses for professionals. This will form the basis for two newly accredited Master Degrees in Public Health with a focus on NCDs provided by the participating third country HEIs in Ghana and The Gambia.
? the training of up to 50 teachers in innovative teaching methods and techniques.
? the bringing together of health care professionals from different disciplines and levels within the healthcare system to learn with and from each other.
? active engagement of and outcomes for students and future employers.
? the fostering of international connections in health science education and capacity strengthening between Ghana and The Gambia, as well as between African and European partner institutes.
At the end of the 3-year programme the developed curriculum will be disseminated to other HEIs within and outside of the participating non-EU countries.
