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Q&A: Why NIH is partnering Tanzania’s Costech

Earlier this month, Research Africa reported that Tanzania’s Commission of Science and Technology has teamed up with the US National Institutes of Health to fund research into using information and communication technology for medical training.

Here, Roger Glass, director of NIH’s Fogarty International Center, describes why the US agency decided to team up with the Tanzanian funder and what’s in it for African scientists.

What drove NIH to take interest in funding research on emerging technology for health education?

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