CAPT Network News
An expanded CAPT Network is hopeful of receiving a four-year infrastructure grant
An ambitious CAPT Network plan to enhance its prevention research activities at its eight African sites has been submitted for funding to the Canadian government's Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI). Under the proposed new plan, the Network hopes to provide each of the network's eight sites with funds to hire and maintain additional research staff over a four year period. To help support these new staff the Network hopes to introduce an intensive training program of scholarships, mentorships and targeted workshops. As well, there will be an initiative to further develop and enhance the research platforms of high-risk populations that were begun under the Network's first round of funding.
One important thrust of this new program will be grant writing. Two central African ‘hubs', one in Uganda and one in South Africa, will be established to help the sites' researchers identify funding opportunities and develop competitive study proposals in response to those opportunities. The aim of this new thrust is to help African researchers take greater control of the research agenda, which in the past has often been led by non-Africans. Please stay tuned in the weeks ahead for more news about the Network's latest programs.
