Researchers receive $10 million to improve medical education in Zimbabwe

MICHELE BARRY, senior associate dean for global health at the School of Medicine, and her colleagues have received a $10 million grant to help improve medical education at the University of Zimbabwe over the next five years. The grant was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Medical Education Partnership Initiative.

Barry is a co-principal investigator, along with BONNIE MALDONADO, chief of infectious disease at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and DAVID KATZENSTEIN, professor of infectious diseases, for the grant called the Novel Education Clinical Trainees and Researchers program, or NECTAR. Stanford will partner with the University of Zimbabwe Medical School and University of Colorado to strengthen medical education in innovative ways.

Read the full announcement on the Medical School’s website.