Ondigo Bartholomew Nyangahu
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya.
Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
Pan Afr Med J. 2020 Mar 30;35:94. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2020.35.94.17563. eCollection 2020.
There is an effort to develop a critical mass of biomedical researchers in low middle-income countries by funding organizations and academic institutions in high-income countries. This involves providing short- and/or long-term training. Short-term training encompasses acquiring competencies in any or a combination of fieldwork, proposal/grant writing, laboratory techniques, data management, statistical approaches for data analyses and dissemination of research findings. Long-term training involves acquisition of an array of competencies that results into an award of a Master's or PhD degree or acceptance into post-doctoral training programs. The author is motivated to write this article to create awareness on this capacity building effort and more importantly provide much needed guidance to potential graduate students considering pursuing long-term training careers in biomedical sciences and global health from Kenya.
高收入国家的资助组织和学术机构正在努力培养中低收入国家足够数量的生物医学研究人员。这包括提供短期和/或长期培训。短期培训包括在实地考察、提案/拨款申请撰写、实验室技术、数据管理、数据分析的统计方法以及研究结果传播等任何一个方面或多个方面获得能力。长期培训涉及获得一系列能力，最终获得硕士或博士学位，或被博士后培训项目录取。作者撰写本文的目的是提高对这一能力建设努力的认识，更重要的是为考虑在生物医学科学和全球健康领域从肯尼亚从事长期培训职业的潜在研究生提供急需的指导。
