Archive: Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)

Status: No plans to recompete at this time

Announcement(s)

• Related program: Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI)
• Related program: African Association for Health Professions Education and Research
• Related program: Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Junior Faculty Research Training

Program Overview

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) funded foreign institutions in sub-Saharan African countries that receive PEPFAR support and their partners to develop or expand and enhance models of medical education. Initial MEPI grants received support from 2010 through 2015.

MEPI aimed to advance PEPFAR's goal of increasing the number of new health care workers by 140,000; strengthen in-country medical education systems; and build clinical and research capacity in Africa as part of a retention strategy for faculty of medical schools and clinical professors.

MEPI supported African institutions in a dozen countries, forming a network including more than 30 regional partners, country health and education ministries, and more than 20 U.S. and foreign collaborators.

• Directory of Awards and Collaborating Partners for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)

NIH support for Research Training for Career Development of Junior Faculty in MEPI Institutions

Since 2015, NIH has been supporting Research Training for Career Development of Junior Faculty in Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Institutions to strengthen the capacity of MEPI institutions to participate in and carry out locally relevant research that contributes to improved human health, and to foster the next generation of faculty researchers in Africa.

MEPI News and Information

• Focus: MEPI program enabled African junior faculty to develop research skills, become independent investigators
  Mar / Apr 2021 Global Health Matters
• Africa’s health, research workforce gets $26M boost
  Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters
• The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Strengthening human resources to end AIDS and improve health in Africa [Open access], co-authored by Fogarty leadership
  Academic Medicine, November 2019 (published online October 2018)
• Special Issue on the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI)
  Annals of Global Health, April 30, 2018
• Fogarty continues to advance African health education
  Jan / Feb 2018 Global Health Matters
• Medical education in decentralized settings: how [MEPI] medical students contribute to health care in 10 sub-Saharan African countries
  Academic Medicine, October 17, 2017
• Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth
  The Lancet Global Health, October 1, 2017
• African medical education program enters next phase
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Continuing to strengthen science capacity in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Sep / Oct 2016 Global Health Matters
• Establishing an African association for health professions education and research
  The National Academies Press, April 19, 2016
• Building capacity in implementation science research training at the University of Nairobi
  Implementation Science, March 8, 2016
• Africa's leadership in biomedical research: Shifting the center of gravity
  Science Translational Medicine, November 18, 2015
• NIH awards $36M to train junior faculty in Africa through MEPI program
  Sep / Oct 2015 Global Health Matters
• Related publication: Medical education departments: a study of four medical schools in Sub-Saharan Africa
  BME Medical Education, July 1, 2015
• NIH prepares for new MEPI research support in Africa
  Sep / Oct 2014 Global Health Matters
• Africa, with U.S. help, graduates more doctors
  New York Times, August 11, 2014
• African medical education is being transformed by US program, journal articles report
  Fogarty news, July 30, 2014
• Related publication: The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Investing in Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Supplement to Academic Medicine, August 2014
• African medical schools see profound culture change
  Sep / Oct 2013 Global Health Matters
• Africa transforms its medical education with Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
  Sep / Oct 2012 Global Health Matters
• Building a health care workforce in Africa
  Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
  Sep / Oct 2012 Global Health Matters
• MEPI sites awarded $2.3 M to strengthen research management
  Fogarty news, June 2012
• HHS partners with PEPFAR to transform African medical education with $130 million investment
  Sep / Oct 2010 Global Health Matters

Inquiries

Flora N. Katz, Ph.D.
Director, Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, B2C39
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220 USA
Phone: 301-402-9591
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: flora.katz@nih.gov

Partners

Largely funded by the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is jointly administered by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (FIC/NIH) and the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (GHAP/HAB/HRSA).

Lead Funders

• Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC)
• NIH Common Fund/Office of the Director (OD/OSC/CF/NIH)

Administrators

• Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (FIC/NIH)
• HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (GHAP/HAB/HRSA)

NIH Funding Partners

• Office of AIDS Research, Office of the Director (OAR/NIH)
• Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH/NIH)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI/NIH)
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI/NIH)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS/NIH)
• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR/NIH)

Collaborators

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Global AIDS Program (GAP/NCHHSTP/CDC)
• Department of Defense (DoD) HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
• National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH)
• National Center for Research Resources (NCRR/NIH)
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM/NIH)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB/NIH)
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD/NIH)
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR/NIH)
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA/NIH)
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD/NIH)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH)
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD/NIH)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM/NIH)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Archives

• Concept: NIH-supported Component of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI): Research Career Development of African Junior Faculty
  Fogarty funding news, August 1, 2014
• Expired announcements:
• Limited Competition: The Medical Education Partnership Initiative Linked Awards (MEPI) (R25)
• Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) (RFA-TW-10-008) (R24)
• Notice of Availability of Administrative Supplements for the Initiative on Research and Innovation Management (iRIM)
  extended receipt date October 28, 2011

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Last Updated: 4/14/2021 4:31 PM