Professors in Residence

Visiting Scholars Provide Targeted Expertise

Accordia Global Health Foundation’s Professors in Residence Program is designed to provide essential counsel and mentoring to current and future infectious disease health professionals. The program sends accomplished international physician scientists to spend 2-4 uninterrupted weeks advising, training, and supervising African scholars and clinicians, adding an essential new component to their development as the next generation of African healthcare professionals.

Prior to the Professors in Residence (PIR)’s arrival, assignments are carefully designed to match each individual’s areas of expertise with specific needs of the scholars and clinicians on the ground. During their stay, the Professors in Residence add real value through their teaching, advising and attending activities. PIRs bring new skills and specialties to program development projects ensuring the best practices and highest standards of performance.

Perhaps most importantly, the Professor in Residence program enables the ongoing mentorship of the growing number of young investigators. PIR spend much of their assignment reviewing progress of research trainees, identifying linkages with other research opportunities, and providing career advice. The strong impact that these well-planned visits have on students, faculty and staff make the program an essential component of Accordia Global Health Foundation’s goal to strengthen academic medical institutions in Africa.

Applicants are considered by a Selection Committee composed of Academic Alliance members and others. Applications are reviewed three times a year and assignments are made in accordance with the academic schedule and the visiting professor’s availability. For more information regarding the Professors in Residence program please contact [email protected].

Click here to download detailed information on Accordia’s Makerere University PIR Program.