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Building Comprehensive And Sustainable Health Informatics Institutions In Developing Countries: Moi University Experience, Martin C. Were, Abraham Siika, Paul O. Ayuo, Lukoye Atwoli, Fabian Esamai

Internal Medicine, East Africa

Current approaches for capacity building in Health Informatics (HI) in developing countries mostly focus on training, and often rely on support from foreign entities. In this paper, we describe a comprehensive and multidimensional capacity-building framework by Lansang & Dennis, and its application for HI capacity building as implemented in a higher-education institution in Kenya. This framework incorporates training, learning-by-doing, partnerships, and centers of excellence. At Moi University (Kenya), the training dimensions include an accredited Masters in HI Program, PhD in HI, and HI short courses. Learning-by-doing occurs through work within MOH facilities at the AMPATH care and treatment program serving …