Research Partner
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. is UKZN’s MEPI partner.
CO PIs:
Prof Phil LaRussa
Clinical Paediatrics Professor, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Attending Physician at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork Presbyterian.
Area of interest: Paediatric HIV infection and Childhood immunizations
Prof Scott Hammer
Harold C. Neu Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
Area of interest: Development of improved therapies for persons with HIV infection and an HIV vaccine to prevent the acquisition of HIV infection.
Their valuable contributions in the MEPI programme include:
- Technical assistance with the curriculum revision
- Access to Columbia’s online research and basic epidemiology teaching which has been explored by Nursing for use for their undergraduate curriculum
- Content Teaching of future distance-education course content.