{"id":2562,"date":"2026-07-30T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:09:34","slug":"xploring-equitable-partnerships-for-health-workforce-development-in-africa-by-dr-kara-neil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2026\/07\/30\/xploring-equitable-partnerships-for-health-workforce-development-in-africa-by-dr-kara-neil\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Equitable Partnerships for Health\u2011Workforce Development in Africa by Dr. Kara\u202fNeil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2563 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-83x55.jpg 83w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-1600x1067.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2026\/07\/IMG_3947-580x387.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Department of Medical Education, the Center for Global Health Equity, and the John\u202fSloan\u202fDickey Center for International Understanding invited Dr. Kara\u202fNeil, EdD, to lead a session on \u201cExploring Equitable Partnerships for Health\u2011Workforce Development in Africa.\u201d\u00a0Dr. Neil directs COMS-A, a continent-wide consortium of nearly 200 African medical schools, and is Assistant Professor at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. She brings more than a decade of leadership in global health professions education, including service as Chief Education, Training &amp; Research Officer at King Faisal Hospital and Vice Chair of Rwanda\u2019s National Ethics Committee.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The session examined\u00a0what equitable partnership in global health professions education requires in practice, using the Consortium of Medical Schools in Africa (COMS-A) as a working case study in African-led collaboration. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in health professions education in Rwanda, this interactive discussion considered where partnership rhetoric and partnership practice tend to diverge, and what closes that gap.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Medical Education, the Center for Global Health Equity, and the John\u202fSloan\u202fDickey Center for International Understanding invited Dr. Kara\u202fNeil, EdD, to lead a session on \u201cExploring Equitable Partnerships for Health\u2011Workforce Development in Africa.\u201d\u00a0Dr. Neil directs COMS-A, a continent-wide consortium of nearly 200 African medical schools, and is Assistant [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/2026\/07\/30\/xploring-equitable-partnerships-for-health-workforce-development-in-africa-by-dr-kara-neil\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","author-397"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/cghe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}