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Dawit Wondimagegn1, Clare Pain, Yonas Baheretibeb
1D. Wondimagegn is chief executive director, College of Health Sciences, and vice president and associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. C. Pain is associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Y. Baheretibeb is associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. B. Hodges is executive vice president of education, University Health Network, professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and scientist and Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research, Wilson Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M. Wakma is former director of graduate programs and current assistant professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. M. Rose is program coordinator, Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A. Sherif is former chair of internal medicine and assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and current fellow of autologous stem cell transplantation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. G. Piliotis is associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A. Tsegaye is former president, Addis Ababa University, and current Ethiopian Ambassador to Indonesia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. C. Whitehead is director and scientist, Wilson Centre, BMO Financial Group Chair in Health Professions Research, University Health Network, vice president of education, Women's College Hospital, and associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Educational partnerships between academic health sciences centers in high- and low-resource settings are often formed as attempts to address health care disparities. In this Perspective, the authors describe the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), an educational partnership between the University of Toronto and Addis Ababa University. The TAAAC model was designed to help address an urgent need for increased university faculty to teach in the massive expansion of universities in Ethiopia. As TAAAC has developed and expanded, faculty at both institutions have recognized that the need to understand contextual factors and to have clarity about funding, ownership, expertise, and control are essential elements of these types of collaborative initiatives. In describing the TAAAC model, the authors aim to contribute to wider conversations and deeper theoretical understandings about these issues.
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