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Split-site doctorates are helping to build Africa’s research base

University partnerships that let PhD students split their time between two countries and keep jobs at home have many benefits.
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Peter Waiswa was working as an assistant district health officer and a physician for Uganda’s Ministry of Health when he heard about an intriguing opportunity: a chance to earn a PhD in public health through a joint programme sponsored by Makerere University in Kampala and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The programme, funded primarily by the Swedish government’s International Development Cooperation Agency, aimed to support Uganda’s development by investing in a new generation of scientists. “Most PhDs focus on the individual, but in this programme, the focus was on building institutional capacity at Makerere,” Waiswa says. “The research you do was also meant to be aligned to national development priorities.”

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Nature 616, 207-209 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00956-8

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