IAPH Cements Partnership with Rabat Collaborating Center

In line with its ongoing aims to attain excellence in public health education, public health workforce capacity building, and innovation at both the regional and global spheres, the International Academy of Public Health (IAPH) continues to move forward with its plans to expand its network of partners, further recognizing partnership as a tool to foster the effective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst members of the public health community.  

In keeping with this mandate, an MoU was signed on April 19, 2024, between IAPH and the Rabat Collaborating Center (RCC).

Founded in 2016, the RCC's activities vary from supporting countries to develop and strengthen their pharmacovigilance system to training health professionals, it also offers an Intercountry online Pharmacovigilance courses and in-depth seminars on a variety of relevant topics.

Through the terms and conditions stipulated in this MoU, both sides will work together towards creating joint educational programs, submitting joint fundraising proposals, and advancing public health research, while both entities expand on their shared areas of interest and experience. 

Being a multi-disciplinary professional development academy, IAPH, from its end, offers diverse fields of study, programs, and courses that utilize learning methods and teaching skills to be immediately applied in the field. IAPH’s professional training programs aim to enhance leadership and performance of the public health system and improve people’s health and health care at the national and regional levels. 

To achieve the above-mentioned goals, IAPH works with a pool of highly professional trainers who are both content and teaching experts. The instructors, It and its partners work with, bring a wealth of regional and international experience from over 12 countries in the EMR and beyond. 

Its areas of expertise ranges from academia, governmental and non-governmental organizations, to their respective fields. Therefore, with each partnership IAPH makes, it is doing its part to advance health education in the EMR, and more specifically to enhance the skills and capacities of the region’s public health workforce.