Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration

The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) assists Ethiopians in identifying and implementing solutions to some of their nation’s most pressing challenges through training and education. 

This partnership brings together faculty and learners at the University of Toronto (U of T) with colleagues at Addis Ababa University (AAU). Together, they support AAU in preparing the specialist professionals Ethiopia needs, while building upon U of T’s commitment to global citizenship and international engagement. By developing and strengthening AAU’s graduate medical and academic programs, we are building capacity in Ethiopia to train their own professionals. This will lead to a robust and accessible healthcare system, an improved economy, and pre-empt food insecurity and unemployment. Together, we are building a better future for Ethiopia.

Publications

• TAAAC: A relational, partnership model for building educational capacity between a high- and low-income university 
• Passing the microphone: Broadening perspectives by amplifying underrepresented voices
• Co-Creating a psychiatric resident program with Ethiopians, for Ethiopians, in Ethiopia
• COVID-19 in Ethiopia: A contextual approach to explaining its slow growth
• 'I exist because of we': Shielding as a communal ethic of maintaining social bonds during the COVID-19 response in Ethiopia
• Breaking borders: How barriers to global mobility hinder international partnerships in academic medicine
• Development of a pediatric ophthalmology academic partnership between Canada and Ethiopia: A situational analysis
• Maintaining a global health partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic: a road map from the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine
• Emergency medicine and its development in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department
• A program to reduce nurse attrition rate in a tertiary care emergency medicine department in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• The clinical profile and acute care of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury at a tertiary care emergency centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Perceptions and reflections of Ethiopian emergency medicine graduates regarding the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM) curriculum: a qualitative evaluation study
• Patterns and predictors of early mortality in the Tikur Anbessa hospital emergency department in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a prospective study
• Not a hobby anymore: Establishment of the Global Health Emergency Medicine organization at the University of Toronto to facilitate academic careers in global health for faculty and residents
• Examining critical factors affecting graduate retention from an emergency training program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives
• Partnering to establish emergency medicine in Ethiopia: development, implementation and evaluation of a postgraduate residency training program at Addis Ababa University; final technical report
• Epidemiology, clinical characteristics and outcomes of head injured patients in an Ethiopian emergency centre
• Development of emergency medicine in Ethiopia
• The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration: Emergency Medicine
• Life on the ground floor
• Perceptions and reflections of early graduates of the first emergency medicine program in Ethiopia: A qualitative study
• Design and implementation of a postgraduate curriculum to support Ethiopia's first emergency medicine residency training program: The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in emergency medicine (TAAAC-EM)
• A review of published literature on emergency medicine training programs in low- and middle-income countries
• Barriers to and facilitators of the development and utilization of context appropriate evidence based clinical algorithms to optimize clinical care and patient outcomes in the Tikur Abbess emergency department: A multi-component qualitative study
• Evaluation of a point-of-care ultrasound scan list in a resource-limited emergency centre in Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• Development and implementation of an emergency medicine graduate training program at Addis Ababa University School of Medicine: Challenges and successes
• Tackling challenges of global health electives: Resident experiences of a structured and supervised medicine elective within an existing global health partnership