Call for MARCAD Plus Fellowships 2023
MARCAD Plus Call for applications for Master, PhD, and Postdoctoral fellowships.
MARCAD Plus is a consortium of institutions putting together their capacities to contribute significatively to malaria and NTDs elimination in West and Central Africa. MARCAD Plus is sponsored by the Welcome Trust and the Foreign, Commonwealth&Development Office (FCDO), working in partnership with the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA)
MARCAD Plus is among the partners of the XIX Medical Days of UCAD
MARCAD Plus participated in the XIX Medical Days of the Faculty of Medicine of the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD). The launching Ceremony held on April 26th, was chaired by the General Director of Higher Education of Senegal, Amadou Abdoul Sow, in the presence of the Director of Public Health Institutions of the country. The event took place from 26th to 29th April 2023 at Dakar University.
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MARCAD Plus selected for DELTAS Africa II program implemented by The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA)
Malaria and NTDs Research Capacity Development (MARCAD Plus) in West and Central Africa is among the 14 consortia selected for the second phase of The Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training, and Science in Africa (DELTAS Africa) programme. The DELTAS Africa II launch ceremony was held on March 14th, 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya.
MARCAD PhD Fellow, Virtue Fiawokome De-Gaulle, awarded an African Researchers’ Small Grant
Virtue Fiawokome De-Gaulle in Ghana, a MARCAD PhD fellow, has been awarded an African Researchers’ Small Grant for her research on “Ivermectin-based Community Mass Treatment: Perspective for Accelerating the soil transmitted helminths Elimination in Cameroon and Ghana”.
Virtue is one of the sixteen researchers (10 males and 6 females) from eight African countries selected as the fifth cohort of the Program (SGP V) by the Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Disease (COR-NTD) and the African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ARNTD).
UHAS hosts MARCAD scientific writing workshop
University of Health and Allied Sciences, from September 27 to October 1, hosted a scientific writing workshop organised by the Malaria Research Capacity Development Consortium (MARCAD) for 15 fellows at the Volta Serene Resort in Ho. UHAS is a member of the consortium, which comprises five African and three European partners.
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