The centre has continued to enjoy its multi-disciplinary approach by working with its collaborators from various fields such as medicine, nutrition, economics, education, anthropology, demography, sociology, public health, computer science, and bio-statistics, etc. The centre has been successful in working at several levels within the university, with the central government, district and sub-district levels, with communities and individuals. This has enabled to in fulfilling its mandate of taking the university expertise to the community. Functional linkages have been built at policy, service provider and consumer levels.
The centre has continued to attract consultancies in its priority research areas that include: child health; nutrition; public health; primary health care and service delivery; reproductive health (with particular reference adolescent sexual development); Sexually Transmitted Infections, health system development policy research, and community health financing. The Centre was contracted to carry out evaluation studies, document and monitor on-going reforms in the health sector that included: health financing, decentralization, gender-awareness, and related advocacy activities for vulnerable groups like people with disabilities or abused children.
Specifically the centre has continued:
- To teach, provide experiential training and support in applied health research to University staff and students as well as Government ministries, Community Based Organisation and Non-Governmental Organizations.
- To provide support and build skills for applied health research for University staff from health-related departments;
- To provide support and build skills for applied health research for government ministry staff, Community based organisations and Non-Governmental-Organisations.
- To provide a platform for interdisciplinary teams to work together on health research with communities;
- Conduct collaborative research with other institutions as well as conduct commissioned research;
- Support dissemination of research findings to international and national researchers and research users;
- Conduct tailored seminars, workshops and courses for researchers, policy makers and implementers. Examples include:
Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Anthropological research design
- Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Epidemiological study design and analysis
- Health Systems Research Methodology Training Workshops for District Personnel
- Nutrition Research Methodology
- Communication in Nutrition Training Workshop
- Introductory Gender Training Workshop and Training of Trainers Workshop for Researchers and Field Practitioners
- National dissemination seminars include: 1) Health Care Financing Dissemination Seminars 2) Maternal Mortality Dissemination Seminars.
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