Partnership Profile
The Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) was established collaboratively by the government of Zambia and UAB in 1999, with a mandate to promote education, research, and service in Zambia in response to infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia. The Sparkman Center was instrumental in the launch and establishment of CIDRZ, offering technical assistance and funding critical to early infrastructure development, staffing, and training.
The Sparkman Center for Global Health is working on similar and complementary capacity building goals with the University of Zambia (UNZA), with collaborative activities ranging from technology infrastructure upgrades for better access to medical and public health literature to enhanced teaching and research at the UNZA School of Medicine and the University Teaching Hospital, and sponsorship of both short-and-long term Zambian scholars through the UAB International Public Health Summer Institute and UAB School of Public Health MPH programs. In 2008, the Sparkman Center signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Chainama Hills College of Health Sciences in Lusaka to develop the existing Certificate Course in Public Health.
For more information on current initiatives in Zambia, please click here.
