Linköping University Joins AMPATH Consortium

The Academic Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Consortium of academic health centers welcomes Linköping University as its newest and first European member. The Swedish university becomes the 13th member of the consortium.

“Like Indiana University, Linköping University has been a partner with Moi University in Kenya since the founding of the medical school in 1990. While we have always worked cooperatively, we are thrilled to officially connect our care, training and research missions to improve the health and well-being of people in Kenya and around the world,” said Adrian Gardner, MD, MPH, executive director of the AMPATH Consortium.

“Over the last 30 years, we have collaborated with our colleagues at Moi University in the development of the medical school, medical library, website and the two-way exchange of students, faculty and researchers,” said Lena Jonasson, MD, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. “We look forward to enhancing these efforts and pursuing initiatives with all of our new AMPATH partners,” she continued.

In three decades, 218 Linköping students and 161 staff have travelled to Moi and 212 Moi students and 108 staff have travelled to Linköping for educational exchanges. Over the next few years, they plan to implement training for PhD students at Moi University, introduce short-term sabbaticals in Eldoret for Linköping faculty and participate in areas of special interest including medical education, immunology, infectious disease, neonatology and more. They also plan to use the Swedish government national knowledge center about violence and other abuse of children to enhance AMPATH’s services for orphans and vulnerable children.

Linköping University was founded in 1975 and is located in the southeast Swedish county of Östergötland. Linköping is the fifth largest city in Sweden with 163,000 inhabitants and is known as the capital of Swedish aviation. The university is one of the larger academic institutions in the country with 32,400 students, 4,100 employees and four campuses in three cities.

It features innovative educational programs for physicians and boundary-crossing research. There are 100 professors in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, which has 3,700 hundred students enrolled. Problem-based learning (PBL) is featured in all courses and programs and students have interprofessional learning opportunities in student-managed training wards, joint strategic research and close collaboration with health care and municipal care.

Indiana University leads the AMPATH Consortium which also includes the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, University of Alberta, Brown University, University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University, the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health at Duke University, NYU Langone, Purdue University, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School and the University of Toronto.