About the consortia

CARTA is a consortium of eight African-partner universities, four research institutions, and nine non-African partner institutions jointly led by Dr Catherine Kyobutungi the, Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and Prof Sharon Fonn from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa.

The consortium enhances the capacity of African universities to create sustainable multidisciplinary research hubs by supporting junior faculty members to undertake their doctoral training locally and to become internationally recognized research leaders. Ultimately, CARTA strengthens university-wide systems to support research. CARTA offers a well thought out approach to rebuild and to strengthen the capacity of African universities to produce world-class researchers, research leaders, and scholars.

Partners: University of Ibadan, Moi University, University of Nairobi, University of Rwanda, Obafemi Awolowo University, Makerere University, University of The Witwatersrand, University of Malawi, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme, Agincourt MRC, South Africa, Ifakara Health Institute, APHRC, University of Bergen, Umeå University, the University of Warwick, University of Gothenburg, Brown University, Canadian Association for Global Health and Swiss TPH