TB Work Package
The EACCR TB work package is coordinated by Dr Sayoki G Mfinanga who is also the Chairperson of the TB work package management committee, assisted by Dr Bernard Ngowi who is also serving as the secretary of the TB work package management committee.
The work package is aiming at building capacity in TB clinical research and operational links and affiliations among East African Regional Institutions working to improve the TB research. Further more the work package will strive to work with the institutions with complementary strengths and mentoring capacity to form a consortium with enhanced multi-disease (HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria) capacity to conduct ICH-GCP compliant clinical Trials.
This will be achieved through:
- Networking within and between institutions within the region and northern partners that is also open to other excellent research centers in East Africa the node will build capacity in terms of infrastructure and human resources in terms of competence in doing TB clinical trials
- Mentoring and training of the staffs from the different sites within EACCR .The work package will build relevant human resource capacity for implementation of clinical trials in TB
- Supporting the sister institutions within EACCR in terms of supervision and staff exchange, the work package will build a capacity in human resources among the sister institutions.
