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Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience
Global health action, v 12(1), pp 1670002-1670002
01 Jan 2019
PMID: 31570070
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Abstract
Doctoral training has increasingly become the requirement for faculty in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Africa, however, still lacks sufficient capacity to conduct research, with just 1.4% of all published research authored by African researchers. Similarly, women in Sub-Saharan Africa only constitute 30% of the continent's researchers, and correspondingly publish little research. Challenging these gendered inequities requires a gender responsive doctoral program that caters for women's gender roles that likely affect their enrollment in, and completion of, doctoral programs. In this article, we describe a public and population health multidisciplinary doctoral training program - CARTA and its approach to supporting women. This has resulted in women's enrollment in the program equaling men's and similar throughput rates. CARTA has achieved this by meeting women's practical needs around childbearing and childrearing and we argue that this has produced some outcomes that challenge gender norms, such as fathers being child minders in support of their wives and creating visible female role models.
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- Title
- Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience
- Creators
- Anne M. Khisa - African Population and Health Research CenterPeter Ngure - Technical University of KenyaEvelyn Gitau - African Population and Health Research CenterJustus Musasiah - African Population and Health Research CenterEunice Kilonzo - African Population and Health Research CenterEmmanuel Otukpa - African Population and Health Research CenterMarta Vicente-Crespo - African Population and Health Research CenterCatherine Kyobutungi - African Population and Health Research CenterAlex Ezeh - University of the WitwatersrandSharon Fonn - University of the Witwatersrand
- Publication Details
- Global health action, v 12(1), pp 1670002-1670002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Grant note
- 107768/Z/15/Z / DELTAS Africa Initiative B 8606.R02 / Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) 54100113 / Sida (10.13039/100004441) Wellcome Trust (UK) and the UK government New Partnership for Africa's Development Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) DELTAS Africa Initiative is an independent funding scheme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS)'s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000488831500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85072782218
- Other Identifier
- 991019168801104721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health