Rebuilding research capacity in fragile states: the case of a Somali-Swedish global health initiative: Somali - Swedish Action Group for Health Research and Development

• Main Authors: Abdirisak Ahmed Dalmar (Author), Abdullahi Sheik Hussein (Author), Said Ahmed Walhad (Author), Abdirashid Omer Ibrahim (Author), Abshir Ali Abdi (Author), Mohamed Khalid Ali (Author), Derie Ismail Ereg (Author), Khadra Ali Egal (Author), Abdulkadir Mohamed Shirwa (Author), Mohamed Hussain Aden (Author), Marian Warsame Yusuf (Author), Yakoub Aden Abdi (Author), Lennart Freij (Author), Annika Johansson (Author), Khalif Bile Mohamud (Author), Yusuf Abdulkadir (Author), Maria Emmelin (Author), Jaran Eriksen (Author), Kerstin Erlandsson (Author), Lars L Gustafsson (Author), Anneli Ivarsson (Author), Marie Klingberg-Allvin (Author), John Kinsman (Author), Carina Källestål (Author), Mats Målqvist (Author), Fatumo Osman (Author), Lars-Åke Persson (Author), Klas-Göran Sahlén (Author), Stig Wall (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This paper presents an initiative to revive the previous Somali-Swedish Research Cooperation, which started in 1981 and was cut short by the civil war in Somalia. A programme focusing on research capacity building in the health sector is currently underway through the work of an alliance of three pa...