Introducing "The African Scholar Podcast": How one professor is working to break down barriers of knowledge access.

Access to higher education remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa.  Select scholarships and bursaries are available to some, but getting access to knowledge to many remains a challenge.  Germaine Tuyisenge, an Assistant Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is working to change that.  By expanding online learning to students in sub-Saharan Africa, and to highlight African scholar research on her new podcast "The African Scholar Podcast", Germaine is working to break barriers of knowledge access and knowledge translation in global development.  Check out how she's doing it.

Germaine Tuyisenge is an assistant professor of sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, UK, where she is also a program director for the online masters, Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming in Low and Middle Income Countries that the school is developing with the University of Ghana and that will start this September.

Germaine’s research focuses on equitable access to sexual and reproductive health services among resource-limited settings

Her PhD research looked at the role of community health workers in promoting access to maternal health services in Rwanda. For her post-doctoral research, Germaine worked with the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University to explore the dynamics of access to sexual and reproductive health services among immigrant women in Vancouver, Canada.

Germaine has worked with government and non-government institutions in Rwanda, Kenya, the Netherlands and Canada on community-based programs to improve SRH.

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