Training and capacity building in medical statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine MSc in Medical Statistics, 1969 to 2021.

James R Carpenter ORCID logo; Jim Todd ORCID logo; Kathy Baisley ORCID logo; John Bradley ORCID logo; Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye ORCID logo; Patrick Musonda; Tobias Chirwa; (2022) Training and capacity building in medical statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine MSc in Medical Statistics, 1969 to 2021. Statistics in medicine, 41 (5). pp. 838-844. ISSN 0277-6715 DOI: 10.1002/sim.9304
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Since its inception in 1969, the MSc in medical statistics program has placed a high priority on training students from Africa. In this article, we review how the program has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, two substantial capacity building initiatives: (a) a fellowship program, funded by the UK Medical Research Council, and run through the International Statistical Epidemiology Group at the LSHTM, and (b) the Sub-Saharan capacity building in Biostatistics (SSACAB) initiative, administered through the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science in Africa (DELTAS) program of the African Academy of Sciences. We reflect on the impact of both initiatives, and the implications for future work in this area.


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