THP Study
Training for Health Professionals

Tanzania has among the worst sexual and reproductive health statistics of any country, yet health professionals receive almost no training on how to address sexual health concerns. To address multiple intersecting sex-related epidemics, and to train the professionals who do everything from staffing clinics to writing national policy, this study develops a rigorous new curriculum for  healthcare workers in Tanzania.  Using a randomized controlled trial of the intervention (curriculum) against a waitlist control, we will test health workers' skills to effectively address sexual health concerns.

Contact the THP Study

Email:  kilian@umn.edu 

Address: Division of Epidemiology and Community Health 1300 S. 2nd St. Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

The Training Health Professionals Study is:

Research Team

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Principal Investigator:

Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health
 B. R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH

Coinvestigators:

Institute of Sexual and Gender Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School
Michael W. Ross, MD, PhD, MPH, MHPEd, MSt

Department of Educational Psychology
Nidhi Kohli, PhD 

Investigator Partners 

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Principal Investigator:

Dickson Mkoka, PhD 

Coinvestigators:

Gift Gadiel, BScN, MSc, PHEC 

Lucy Mgopa, MD


Research colleagues at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences 

Agnes Massae, PhD, MN, MWH, BScN

Stella Mushy, PhD, MN, MWH, BScN

Dorkas Mwakawanga, MN, MWH, BScN


Johns Hopkins University Department of Pediatrics
Maria Trent, MD


Staff in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Program Director: Gudrun Kilian, BA

Graduate Research Assistant: Koua Her, MPH, MBA