Job Description

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and conducting policy-relevant research on population, health, education, urbanization and related development issues on the continent.

Consultancy to Facilitate Open Source Capacity Strengthening for the Mental Health Data Prize – Africa

The project aims to develop the capacity of MH prize winners to use open-source platform for data sharing. The goal is to enable data scientists to share their project progress (e.g., code, datasets, documentation) on open-source platforms (e.g., GitHub, Kaggle, Zenodo) under licenses that allow free use, modification, and distribution (e.g., MIT, Apache 2.0, CC-BY for data). This promotes transparency, collaboration, and reproducibility in data science. The Consultant will work closely with MHDP-Africa Project team and ...