World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scand J Public Health. 2010 Aug;38(6):670-1. doi: 10.1177/1403494810372265. Epub 2010 Jun 7.
The issue of strengthening local research capacity in Africa is again high on the health and development agenda. The latest initiative comes from the Wellcome Trust. But when it comes to capacity development, one of the chief obstacles that health sectors in the region must confront is the migration of health professionals to countries that offer more lucrative opportunities, like those in western Europe. To combat this ''brain drain'', already back in 1984, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) created a training programme in which healthcare professionals from Africa conducted the bulk of their research in their own countries. However, the model was only partly successful. Several years ago, we assessed the preconditions for the renewal of Sida support for research and research training activities in the region. Based on our work to develop a critical mass of beneficial research capacity in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, this article suggests several recommendations to both donors and governments that have broad application for general health research issues in the region.
加强非洲当地研究能力的问题再次成为卫生和发展议程上的重点。最近的一项举措来自惠康信托基金会。但在能力发展方面，该地区卫生部门必须面对的主要障碍之一是卫生专业人员向提供更丰厚机会的国家（如西欧国家）迁移。为了应对这种“人才流失”，早在 1984 年，瑞典国际开发合作署（Sida）就创建了一个培训计划，让来自非洲的医疗保健专业人员在自己的国家开展大部分研究。然而，该模式仅取得部分成功。几年前，我们评估了瑞典国际开发合作署重新支持该地区研究和研究培训活动的前提条件。基于我们在撒哈拉以南非洲国家发展大量有益的研究能力的工作，本文为捐助者和政府提出了一些建议，这些建议对该地区的一般卫生研究问题具有广泛的适用性。
