Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration

The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration is a university educational program to teach medicine in Ethiopia.

[1] Both universities pay costs, the program is run frugally, and it does not receive any external funding.

[1][2] Since it started, the scope of the collaboration has grown to include 24 medical and non-medical academic disciplines.

[1] The Psychiatry Program provides training in physiatry to medical students at Addis Ababa University and works with priests to encourage referral to, and acceptance of, medical care for people with mental illness.

[4] As of 2017, 222 Ethiopian graduates have become university faculty due to assistance from the collaboration and a further 143 were enrolled in ongoing education.