Institut africain de Santé publique

The Institut africain de Santé publique (IASP) is a non-profit association (association sans but lucratif, ASBL) founded on 11 October 2012 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by a group of African teacher-researchers and researchers active in the field of public health. The institute was created out of a shared recognition that African health professionals needed high-level, research-oriented training, and its founders committed their collective resources to building an institution dedicated to that purpose. Its stated mission is to contribute to improving population health through excellence in training and research in public health in Africa. IASP operates primarily as a higher-education and research institution. Its teaching portfolio includes specialised master's degrees in public health — notably an option in planning and management of health programmes and services — delivered either in person or online, along with continuing education, certificates, and university diplomas (DU) in areas such as research methodology, monitoring and evaluation of health projects and programmes, reproductive health, and statistical and epidemiological methods. The institute also offers a PhD in public health in collaboration with the Université Saint Thomas d'Aquin. Its programmes are organised according to the LMD (Licence–Master–Doctorat) system, with the specialised master's requiring 120 credits delivered over four semesters. Beyond degree programmes, IASP conducts research on major population health problems and aims to train researchers and leaders capable of working within health-care networks and bringing relevant analytical and research capacity to health systems. Its target audience includes holders of a doctorate in human medicine, pharmacy, dental surgery or veterinary medicine, advanced medical and pharmacy students, and holders of a university licence in relevant fields such as biology, sociology or psychology. According to its own institutional figures, IASP reports ten years of experience, 142 diplomas awarded, 229 enrolled students and eight master's programmes. The institute has graduated successive cohorts of specialists in health, including a fourth cohort of twenty general practitioners, specialist physicians, nutritionists and sociologists from several countries, eight of whom were women. IASP presents itself as capitalising on more than twenty years of experience of African executives in higher education, scientific research and health-service management. It remains a private, non-profit institution headquartered in Ouagadougou and serving learners from Burkina Faso and across Africa.

The Institut africain de Santé publique (IASP) was created on 11 October 2012 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by a group of African teacher-researchers and researchers working in the field of public health. According to the institute's own account, these academics recognised the need to work in synergy to open high-level training opportunities for health actors, and they committed to placing all their resources at the disposal of the new institution for the benefit of health actors and, ultimately, African populations. IASP was established as a non-profit association (ASBL). From its founding, the institute pursued two intertwined objectives: conducting research on major population health problems, and training researchers and leaders capable of working within health-care networks while bringing relevant analytical and research capacity to health systems. Its fundamental mission was framed as working, in Burkina Faso in particular and Africa in general, toward research on major health problems and the training of researchers and leaders. Over its first decade, IASP built a teaching portfolio organised around the LMD system. It developed specialised master's programmes in public health — including an option in planning and management of health programmes and services — offered in person or online, alongside continuing education, certificates and university diplomas in areas such as research methodology, monitoring and evaluation, reproductive health, and statistical and epidemiological methods. The institute also established a PhD in public health in collaboration with the Université Saint Thomas d'Aquin. By its tenth year, IASP reported ten years of experience, 142 diplomas awarded, 229 enrolled students and eight master's programmes. It has graduated successive cohorts of health specialists; its fourth cohort comprised twenty general practitioners, specialist physicians, nutritionists and sociologists from several countries, eight of them women. The institute describes itself as capitalising on more than twenty years of experience of African executives in higher education, scientific research and health-service management. It continues to operate from Ouagadougou as a private, non-profit higher-education and research institution serving learners from Burkina Faso and across Africa.

• 2012

  IASP founded on 11 October 2012 in Ouagadougou by a group of African teacher-researchers and researchers in public health, as a non-profit association (ASBL).

• Development of specialised master's programmes in public health, including an option in planning and management of health programmes and services, offered in person or online.

• Establishment of a PhD in public health in collaboration with the Université Saint Thomas d'Aquin.

• Graduation of the fourth cohort of health specialists: twenty general practitioners, specialist physicians, nutritionists and sociologists from several countries, eight of them women.

• IASP reports ten years of experience, 142 diplomas awarded, 229 enrolled students and eight master's programmes.

A non-profit African higher-education and research institute dedicated to excellence in public health training and research, serving health professionals from Burkina Faso and across Africa.

• Master's in Public Health (in-person or online)

  A specialised master's programme in public health offered in physical or online format.

• Specialised Master's in Public Health, option Planning and Management of Health Programmes and Services

  A 120-credit programme organised under the LMD system over four semesters, covering public health introduction, health-service management, planning, research methods, health economics, demography, health law and ethics, and related subjects.

• PhD in Public Health

  A doctoral programme in public health offered in collaboration with the Université Saint Thomas d'Aquin.

• Certificate in Research Methodology

  A continuing-education certificate listed among IASP's popular programmes.

• Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Projects and Programmes

  A continuing-education certificate aimed at providing participants with skills in the design and monitoring and evaluation of health projects and programmes.

• University Diploma (DU) in Reproductive Health

  A university diploma programme aimed at strengthening participants' understanding of reproductive health.

• University Diploma (DU) in Statistical and Epidemiological Methods

  A university diploma programme providing participants with statistical and epidemiological methods skills.

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