9 CARTA Universities among top 100 Africa best universities.

All the 9 CARTA universities have made it to the Africa’s top 100 Universities according to the World University Web Ranking 2013.  The ranking gives an indication of the web presence, visibility and web access of the featured universities and aims at promoting open access publication of scientific results.  In 2013, all 9 CARTA universities featured among 100 Africa best universities led by Wits and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  Here is the full list of the universities, their position and the overall position in Africa.

Position	Position in Africa	University	Country
1	5	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
2	6	University of Dar es Salaam	Tanzania
3	10	Makerere University	Uganda
4	17	University of Nairobi	Kenya
5	23	University of Ibadan	Nigeria
6	31	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria
7	40	National University of Rwanda (Université Nationale du Rwanda)	Rwanda
8	65	University of Malawi	Malawi
9	85	Moi University	Kenya

Scientific Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Health, July 15 -17, Nairobi, Kenya.

Five CARTA fellows have been selected to make presentations at the Scientific Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Health, from July 15 -17,in Nairobi, Kenya. The symposium is organized by the  African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)  It will bring together past and current African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF) Program awardees, administered by APHRC,  and other researchers in the region to share research findings, network, and learn collaboratively. There will be both oral and poster presentations in health systems research as well as public and population health research.

Dieudonne Uwizeye, a cohort 1 fellow will make two poster presentations entitled  “Neighbourhood conditions determine diarrhoeal risks in Huye urban informal settlements in Rwanda” and ”Primary healthcare at home for diarrhoea patients: Experience of Huye urban informal settlements in Rwanda’.

Joel Olayiwola Faronbi who is in cohort 3 will make a poster presentation entitled “‘Perceived health and social need and access to health care among elderly in a rural community in South West, Nigeria”.  He will also do an oral presentation entitled “Perception, occurrence and prevention of elderly abuse among residents of Owo, Ondo State Nigeria”.

Mphatso Kamndaya, a cohort 1 fellow will make an oral presentation entitled “Material deprivation and youth sexual behavior in urban informal settlements, Malawi: Preliminary findings”.
Peter Mamtobe is in cohort 2 and will do an oral presentation entitled “ Impact of multi-intervention campaigns on the malaria epidemics in Malawi”.

Taofeek Awotidebe, a cohort 1 fellow, will make an oral presentation  entitled “Effect of cardiac rehabilitation exercise of physical function in patients with chronic heart failure” and present a poster entitled “ Assessment of health-related quality of life, socio-economic status and physical activity in apparently healthy adults”.

The symposium features pre conference workshops where participants will learn effective presentation and public speaking, research leadership and management, academic supervision and mentorship, media engagement and research communication tools development, grant proposal development, and be introduced to  health systems research.

Two CARTA Fellows Invited to the Graduate Program in Development (GPD) of the Brown University, USA

Evaline Mcharo

Two CARTA fellows have been invited to the Graduate Program in Development (GDP) of the Brown University, United States of America.  Evaline Mcharo, a CARTA fellow cohort 2 was the first to hear of her invitation, followed by Sulaimon Taiwo Adedokun, cohort 1 fellow from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.  Evaline is from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and is a registered PhD student of the University of Nairobi.

Sulaimon Taiwo Adedokun

Brown University Resources.
For four months while at the Brown University, both CARTA fellows will participate in all GPD activities, will take classes offered by GDP along with other classes that may be of interest to them, however, they will be required to take a course entitled – Theory and Research in Development. In addition, They will have full access to Brown's libraries and electronic resources.

Attendance.
Evaline and Sulaimon will attend Brown University at different semesters.  Evaline will be at Brown University during the Fall Semester which begins September 4 and ends December 12, 2013, while Sulaimon will take his call during the Spring Semester from January 22 to May 16, 2014.

Evaline and Sulaimon were chosen from a large group of CARTA fellows who had submitted their applications for placement.  Evaline wrote to CARTA to break the good news saying that “Thank you very much for you efforts to help CARTA FELLOWS”.  Sulaimon thanked CARTA for the opportunity terming it rare and wonderful and promised to make maximum use of it. CARTA is pleased by Brown University’s call to both Evaline and Sulaimon.