Introduction: Africa, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, has a high disease burden due to several challenges including communicable and non-communicable diseases, poverty, poor infrastructure and insecurity. This suggests the need for highly trained thinkers to come up with local solutions to the problems in the continent. However, there are inadequate trained manpower at doctoral level at the African Universities. The doctoral training further faces the problems of high attrition and low rate of timely completion of the programs in many African universities. Unfortunately, support for the training of supervisors for doctoral candidates are inadequate in many institutions in Africa and requirements for supervisor’s qualifications are inconsistent. Many supervisors of PhD candidates therefore learnt the process of supervision on the job, but this is often not enough to guarantee quality.

Performance Goal: The overall performance goal of this Supervisors’ Training program is to ensure that the next generation of PhD supervisors in Africa are well prepared and use the possibilities to support the supervisory process. 

Course duration and delivery mode: This will be a A 6-Days course that will be delivered as both face-to-face and Online teaching and learning - Blended (Hybrid) Face-to-Face/Online teaching and learning

Target Audience: The course targets Faculty members from partner institutions who supervise doctoral students and have a CARTA Fellow as one of their students. It is hoped that this course will enhance participants' doctoral supervisory skills that will enable them support their students to establish themselves as career researchers. Hence at the end of the training, participants will be more competent in supervision of their doctorate students.