Training Overview
Training and capacity strengthening activities form a major component of IMPRINT and form an integral part of all planned research activities. We aim to build the urgently needed research capability across the African and Vietnamese partner institutions, at both individual and institutional level, which is essential to drive down deaths from fungal infections. This will be achieved through a combination of mentored research activities with senior members of the group providing mentorship to young and emerging researchers, formal research training through taught courses and research studentships, and structured support for research management at sites with limited experience of managing large research programmes. The training lead for the Group is Dr Claire Hoving (UCT).
Training Activities
African Medical Mycology course. Cape Town, Dec 2025.
This course will be based on a highly successful course run in 2019 in collaboration between the AMBITION-cm trial and the AFRICA Unit, a UK-African partnership between the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology and UCT. We will again run the course with the AFRICA Unit, providing tutors for the teaching programme, and sponsoring several places for junior clinicians and researchers from the NIHR Global Health Group collaborating sites. The course will be an ideal opportunity for promising young African and Vietnamese clinicians and scientists to gain an understanding of the field, be inspired, and learn about the opportunities for further training within the programme.
IMPRINT will fund 3 PhD studentships, 5 MSc studentships, formal mycology training courses in South Africa and Vietnam, and cryptococcal meningitis specific training activities in Botswana, Malawi, and MSF supported sites in DRC, Guinea, and Mozambique.
Meet Our Students
Student-led Journal Club and Progress Presentations (Dr. Johnny Falconer)
3 x PhD Funded
Dr Trevor Mnguni (UCT)
PhD thesis: Outcome and Diagnosis of HIV-associated Pneumocystis Pneumonia.
Date of enrolment: October 2022
Ms. Buhle Ndweni
PhD thesis: Economic Evaluation of Novel Interventions in the Reduction of Fungal Infection-related Mortality among People Living with Advanced HIV Disease
Date of enrolment: February 2023
Ms. Bui Thu Hien (HMU)
PhD thesis: Health Economics Assesment of Talaromycosis Screening Program for People with Advanced HIV Disease in Vietnam
Date of enrolment: October 2024
5 x MSc Funded
Dr Lauriane Fomete (LSHTM)
MSc in Epidemiology
Date of enrolment: September 2024
Ms. Elizabeth Hlagala (UCT)
MSc in Clinical Sciences and Immunology
Date of enrolment: March 2023
Completion: March 2025
Dr Dao Quang Linh (HMU)
MSc in Microbiology
Project title: Evaluation of the Distribution of Talaromyces marneffei strains according to MIC
Date of enrolment: October 2022
Completion: November 2023
Dr Freddy Mangana (LSHTM)
MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health
Date of enrolment: September 2025