International Doctoral School in Global Health (Indigo)
Building capacity in Health Sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa
The ultimate goal of Indigo is to enable southern partners to become regional centres of excellence in interdisciplinary health research, producing research leaders who will develop the evidence base for health systems capable of developing and implementing effective treatment strategies and technologies.
Trinity, through Indigo, will build capacity in health systems by educating leaders in health research and creating sustainable health research networks in sub-Saharan Africa. Partnering with Columbia, Oxford and leading universities in Africa, the programme will deliver experts in Global Health who will be based in Africa.
About €800,000 of start-up funding has been secured from Higher Education Authority / Irish Aid. The programme has been approved by Graduate Studies and will start in the autumn of 2009.
Ph.D. scholarships funding, €100,000 per person over four years, is currently being sought for students from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.