MCDC partners
The Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC) is a partnership of four European and five African partners.
All the European institutions involved in MCDC have many years’ experience of training scientists from developing countries. They collaborated very successfully for seven years within the Gates Malaria Partnership. The five African partners each have an established reputation in malaria research, experience in postgraduate training and previous links with one or more of the European partners.
The four European partners are:
- Center for Medical Parasitology, University of Copenhagen (CMP)
- DBL - Centre for Health Research and Development, University of Copenhagen (DBL)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
The five African universities (and supporting partners) are:
- College of Medicine, University of Malawi (CoM), and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi.
- Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi (KCMC), and the Joint Malaria Programme (JMP) Tanzania.
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
- Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Ministry of Health, Uganda.
- Faculty of Medicine, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (University of Dakar), Senegal and the Ministry of Health, Senegal.