Summary of exemplar international partnerships working as part of healthcare research in Africa
| Country | Institution | Collaborators | Sphere of interest |
| USA | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/Globalhealth/ | 32 African countries | Global health security, global health protection, HIV-AIDS, TB, malaria, parasitic diseases, among others |
| USA | Harvard Medical School-School of Public Health: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/africa-health-partnership/ | 12 African countries | Variety of public health issues (chiefly in communicable diseases) |
| USA | Yale University-Africa Initiative: https://world.yale.edu/africa | Links with 43 African countries but research and educational programmes in 8 countries | Clinical medicine, palliative care, education and training, among others |
| USA | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health: https://hopkinsglobalhealth.org/faculty-research/project-map/ | 15 African countries | Both communicable and non-communicable diseases including HIV, TB and malaria |
| France | Institut Pasteur: https://www.pasteur.fr/en/institut-pasteur/institut-pasteur-throughout-world/institut-pasteur-international-network | Institutes in 7 African countries | Communicable diseases: biomedical research, public health activities, education, innovation and technology transfer |
| Switzerland | Swiss Institute for Tropical and Public Health: https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/research-we-do/ | Collaborations throughout Africa with focus on Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda | Infectious and non-communicable diseases, society and health; environment; health systems and innovation |
| UK | Wellcome Trust: https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/programmes-and-initiatives-africa-and-asia | Projects throughout Africa, but institutes in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa | TB, HIV, malaria, respiratory diseases, leadership, training among others |
| UK | Medical Research Council: https://mrc.ukri.org/about/institutes-units-centres/list-of-institutes-units-centres/?filtersSubmitted=true&textSearch=Search+centres%E2%80%A6¢reLocation=The+Gambia¢reLocation=Uganda | Projects throughout Africa with dedicated research units in Gambia and Uganda | All aspects of communicable and non-communicable diseases including vaccinology |
| European Union | European Union: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/international-cooperation/africa_en | Supports potential research projects throughout Africa through specific funding calls | All aspects of medical research, innovation and education including new calls for COVID-19 work |
| Germany | Federal Ministry of Education and Research: https://www.bmbf.de/en/africa-strategy-of-the-federal-ministry-of-education-and-research-2280.html | Collaborations in 14 African countries | Both communicable and non-communicable diseases |
| Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (international organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland) | https://www.gavi.org | Projects in 43 African countries Associated with WHO, UNICEF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Bank | Established work with HIV and 12 vaccine programmes but work on COVID-19 underway now |
| USA | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Where-We-Work/Africa-Office/Focus-Countries | 45 countries in Africa eligible for help but focus on 10 countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia | Multiple areas including TB, HIV, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, maternal and child health; current attention on COVID-19 |
Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK support a variety of international partnerships usually through indirect resourcing, for example, via Wellcome and other outside sources. They are therefore not included as direct resource providers in this table.
TB, tuberculosis.