Mission
The North-South-South project in Biostatistics is sponsored by the Flemish Interuniversity Council - University Development Cooperation and constitutes a collaboration between different Flemish and Ethiopean universities, and Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.
It aims at starting up new or reinforcing existing Master programmes in Biostatistics in Ethiopia.
The project originates from initiatives taken by Luc Duchateau (UGent) and Paul Janssen (UHasselt) in the context of the Institutional University Collaboration programme (IUC) with Jimma University. One of the objectives of the IUC programme was to establish a Masters programme in Biostatitics at Jimma University. It seemed, however, more approporiate to open up this project to other Ethiopean Universities. After establishing contacts with interested Ethiopean universities, the North-South-South project in Biotatistics was successfully defended.
At the start of the North-South-South project in Biotatisticst, a selection of 10 courses that are required in a Masters programme
in Biostatitics was made. For each course incorporated in this programme, an existing course in one of the Flemish Master programmes
in Statistics was allocated and a Flemish-Ethiopean team was established.
At the time the course is taught, two to three Ethiopean academic staff members are invited to come
to Belgium to follow the course. During that time, the Flemish-Ethiopean team will start working
on the original course notes as used in the existing course and adapt it to include Ethiopean data set examples.
These reworked courses will then be used by the Ethiopean team members in their respective Master programmes in the future.
All the materials, such as the sylabus, the slides, the data sets,
the statistical programmes are made available to the different participating universities at this website.
The material is made available on a course by course basis under the heading Courses