Past Events

This conference will be an opportunity to learn from researchers working across different areas, geographies and disciplines. The aim of the conference is to present research findings and also methods and processes and to learn from these to better enable research in every health care setting.

Learn how to apply NGS technologies for analysing monogenic disease in African populations. in collaboration with the 14th Conference of the African Society of Human Genetics and the Moroccan Society of Human Genetics, this free to attend workshop will focus on the application of NGS technologies for analysing monogenic disease in African populations and is aimed at those planning to use NGS approaches in their research or clinical work.

Seeking bold ideas that address the human health impacts of climate change in low- and middle-income countries. These innovative solutions are expected to address the adaptation gaps and build resilience against the effects of climate change on the human health and wellbeing of underserved communities. Successful proposals will be awarded seed grants of up to CAD $150,000 for a period of up to 18 months to develop and test the proposed innovation.

A series of Grand Challenges grant opportunities from the Gates Foundation has been announced. A scheme of particular interest is: Interventions to Enhance Epidemic Intelligence, Surveillance and Outbreak Response.  This challenge is in conjunction with Grand Challenges Senegal which aims to advance the ecosystem for public health innovation in Africa. Grand Challenges Senegal will deploy grant funding to test new ideas led by innovators working in the region and African scientists in the diaspora with a focus on the ECOWAS…

The programme will include theoretical and practical information on next generation sequencing systems currently available and those on the near horizon. Technologies will be chosen from short- and long-read sequencing platforms including PacBio, Illumina Miseq/HiSeq and Oxford Nanopore MinION. Applicants should be postdoctoral scientists, senior PhD students, or junior faculty members actively engaged in or soon to commence research involving next generation sequencing instrumentation. Application deadline 5 January 2023

The short course “Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings (AIM)” is a 3-week course which offers an interdisciplinary and interactive trainingon relevant aspects of antibiotic resistance and its containment at the hospital level. The course focuses on hospitals because they concentrate the most ill and vulnerable patients; in addition, they are hotbeds of healthcare-acquired infections, act as referral sites for difficult-to-treat infections and host trainees and postgraduate educational programs. The short-course consists of a common track and 3 specific…