Fragile states need essential national health research-the case of Somalia

Constituted on July 1, 1960, Somalia inherited a weak post-colonial, health-care system based on curing disease rather than preventing it, with most rural and nomadic populations having negligible access to essential health-care services. The next three decades resulted in notable improvements through expansion of health facilities and mobile outreach services. In the 1970s, academic institutions upscaled their training of health-care providers, who were then deployed as across the health-care system. During the same period, many senior Somali medical doctors underwent postgraduate studies at Italian universities and, after returning, engaged in academic teaching, training doctors, nurses, midwives, and a range of other health workers. Another milestone in building research capacity was the Swedish Government's support in the 1980s to the Somali National University, Mogadishu, Somalia, enabling the successful training of 23 Somali faculty members on master's or doctoral programmes at Swedish universities.

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Bile, K., M. Warsame, A. Dirie Ahmed (2022) Fragile states need essential national health research: the case of Somalia. The Lancet 10(5) E617-E618. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00122-X