Public health capacity development in Africa: The case of advanced public health education and training in Cabo Verde

The problem persists. Since 2021, 32% of the 47 countries in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) still do not have postgraduate public health training programs [1]. METHODS We conducted a single holistic case study design [13] based on the experience and information of various professionals, including professors, coordinators, heads of institutions, and others directly involved with the different advanced training programs, academic reports, and analysis of relevant policy, academic and programmatic documents related to public health and the health system of Cabo Verde. In 1960 (order number 5/997 of August 27 1960), before independence, a mid-level nursing school was established at the Mindelo Central Hospital on the island of São Vicente to address the ‘need to prepare nursing staff and improve the provision of health care’. Since 2016, in the stride of the 2014–16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the 2015 Zika, and 2017 malaria epidemics in Cabo Verde [34,36,37], Uni-CV reformulated the master in public health.