Places and Activities

Bethune Round Table

With the support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives based at the Canadian High Commission in Georgetown, CNIS Trauma Team Training, an active pre-pandemic program, was reintroduced in its digita[...] Read More

South Sudan

South Sudan CNIS began supporting South Sudan in 2018, collaborating with the Canadian Association of Midwives (CAM) under UNFPA sponsorship. Initially, Train-the-Trainer sessions were held at the Col[...] Read More

Uganda

Uganda has been central to CNIS’s history since 1996, when it helped establish the Injury Control Center, trauma register, and the Kampala Trauma Score. Over decades, CNIS has trained thousands of h[...] Read More

Nigeria

CNIS conducted a knowledge-sharing project where what we had learned through the digitization of FIRST for Midwives was handed over to the two midwifery schools in Benue State and six other schools is[...] Read More

Ethiopia

CNIS is currently digitizing the 4th of its programs using the previous methodology of placing the courses on a Learning Management System and then on a mobile phone app. This project is being suppor[...] Read More

Kenya

With the support of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the TTT course was digitized and made accessible to learners on mobile phone apps. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of Ken[...] Read More

Tanzania

With the support of a Rotary Global Grant, CNIS commenced a new project to promote obstetrical and surgical skills training in Tanzania, this time in the capital city of Dodomo. This project involves [...] Read More

Guyana

With the support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives based at the Canadian High Commission in Georgetown, CNIS Trauma Team Training, an active pre-pandemic program, was reintroduced in its digita[...] Read More

Legacy

Legacy Since its founding in 1995, CNIS has delivered essential surgical and trauma training in Ethiopia, Rewanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Guyana, while also working in Malawi, Mali, Egypt,[...] Read More