# Enhancing Advanced Biomedical Training in Mozambique

> **NIH NIH D43** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2020 · $302,400

## Abstract

Abstract
In this new application to the Fogarty Institute we are seeking support to facilitate the initiation of PhD training
in Biosciences and Public Health at Mozambique’s major national University, the Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane (UEM). The program entitled “Enhancing Advanced Biomedical Training in Mozambique” brings
together a critical mass of Mozambique’s HIV research community who are appointed at the Universidade
Eduardo Mondlane’s Facultes of Medicine (UEM FoM) and Veterinary Sciences (FVS), the Instituto Nacional
de Saude (INS) of the Ministry of Health and the Maputo Central Hospital in support of UEMs recently
formulated PhD in Biosciences and Public Health. US partners in this endeavor include the University of
California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), both of which collaborate
with UEM in the training of masters level students with the support of existing D43 training grants. Research
training related to the pathogenesis, prevention and management of HIV-1 related co-morbidities including
tuberculosis and hepatitis virus infections directly address major causes of morbidity within Mozambique.
Mozambique, in addition, provides a unique opportunity to further explore important interactions among HIV-1
and tropical and neglected diseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis by bringing together scientists
conducting cutting edge laboratory research with these pathogens with clinical investigators with unique
access and insights into these tropical diseases. The collaboration will also interface the substantial strengths
in novel Point-of-Care diagnostic and remote biosensing technologies in UCSD’s School of Medicine and its
Jacobs School of Engineering (JSOE) and with Ilesh Jani’s POC evaluation program at the INS. Informatics,
biostatistics and quantitative biology training will provide critical rigor to both research projects and early career
stage investigators in this program. VIGH will lead collaborative activities in the areas of Public Health and
Operational Research building on its long relationship with Dr. Moshin Sidat, Dean of the UEM Faculty of
Medicine in these areas. Collectively the faculty in Mozambique and the US seek to successfully launch UEM’s
PhD in Biosciences and Public Health as the country develops for the first time the capacity to offer doctoral
level training in these two disciplines within Mozambique.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9989680
- **Project number:** 5D43TW010568-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Emilia Virginia Noormahomed
- **Activity code:** D43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $302,400
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-06-12 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9989680

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9989680, Enhancing Advanced Biomedical Training in Mozambique (5D43TW010568-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9989680. Licensed CC0.

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