Our Purpose

Strengthening Health Professional Workforce Education Programs for Improved Quality Health Care in Zambia (SHEPIZ) is a $3, 000, 000.00 five year program (2019-2024), funded by the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institute of Health grant award number R25TW011219 awarded to the University of Zambia and implemented under the School of Medicine.
It is focused on developing health services research approaches arising out of existing training programs that equip health care workers with enough trans-disciplinary research training and practices so as to equip them with requisite skills that enable them to respond to key national challenges derived from major national disease and health system priorities.
It provides huge potential to increasingly improve the performance of the health care system in general, improve the trust and quality of national development, and eventually contribute to Sub-Saharan’ struggling health systems.