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Capacity Building

Sharing perspectives and experiences of doctoral fellows in the first cohort of Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa: 2011–2014

Babatunde AdedokunDepartment of Epidemiology and Medical StatisticsFaculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NigeriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Peter NyasuluSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;School of Health SciencesMonash University, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Fresier MasekoCollege of MedicineFaculty of Community Health, University of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Sunday AdediniDemography and Social StatisticsObafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria;Demography and Population StudiesFaculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Joshua AkinyemiDepartment of Epidemiology and Medical StatisticsFaculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Sulaimon AfolabiDemography and Population StudiesFaculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Nicole de WetDemography and Population StudiesFaculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Adedokun SulaimonDemography and Social StatisticsObafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Caroline SambaiDepartment of LiteratureTheatre and Film Studies, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
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Wells UtembeSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Department of Physics and Biochemical Sciences, Malawi Polytechnic, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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Rose OpiyoSchool of Public HealthUniversity of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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Taofeek AwotidebeDepartment of Medical RehabilitationCollege of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria;Department of Human Kinetics and Health EducationFaculty of Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Esnat ChirwaDepartment of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi;MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research UnitSchool of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Esther NabakweDepartment of Child Health and PediatricsCollege of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya;Department of Anthropology and Human EcologySchool of Arts and Social Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
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François NiragireDepartment of Applied StatisticsUniversity of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda
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Dieudonné UwizeyeDepartment of Sustainable DevelopmentUniversity of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda;Centre for Population Studies and Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Celine NiwemahoroDepartment of Applied StatisticsUniversity of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda;Centre for Population Studies and Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Mphatso KamndayaSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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Victoria MwakalingaSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Ifakara Health InstituteDar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Kennedy OtwombeSchool of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Perinatal HIV Research UnitFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Article: 25127 | Received 06 Jun 2014, Accepted 31 Jul 2014, Published online: 29 Sep 2014

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