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Creative Education 2012. Vol.3, Special Issue, 749-754 Published Online October 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) /10.4236/ce.2012.326112 Delivering Creative Education for Health Promoters in Africa—Towards Critical Mass by “Going Global and Staying Local” Rachael Dixey Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK Email: R.Dixey@leedsmet.ac.uk Received August 1st th th , 2012; revised September 5 , 2012; accepted September 16 , 2012 Postgraduate opportunities for health promotion and other courses allied to health are limited in sub-Sa- haran Africa (apart from South Africa). There are major constraints on the development of health promo- tion in sub-Saharan Africa, and the lack of training capacity is one of them. Although potential students can access courses in parts of the global North where health promotion is strong—Europe, North America, Australia—this option is expensive. It also takes workers away from their posts for considerable periods and can be gender-biased. This paper describes a creative educational approach where postgraduate study is taken to Africa, from the UK, in the attempt to create communities of learning and to develop a critical mass of health promotion workers, such that they can make real change to the infrastructure for health promotion