International Workshop for Scientists on Community Engagement and University Career Management

Building Capacity of its fellows, training Senegalese and sub-regional teachers / researchers to better understand the concept of community engagement and to better manage their university career are the main objectives of MARCAD program (Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa).

Those were the motivation for MARCAD director Professor Oumar Gaye and his team to hold an international workshop to sensitize Scientists on community engagement and University Career Management. The event was held from 20 to 22 June 2019 at the Keur Socé Research and Training Center, Kaolack, Sénégal.

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Congratulation to MARCAD PhD fellow Dr Abdullahi Ahmad for his new achievement at Harvard Medical School

MARCAD PhD fellow at the MRC Unit The Gambia, Dr Abdullahi Ahmad, has completed a one-year training program at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from 16^th June 2018 to 3^rd June 2019. This was funded through a partial tuition scholarship he won from HMS and his MARCAD PhD grant.

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Dr Drissa Coulibaly work’s results will help to update strategies for malaria elimination in Mali

One of the main objectives Dr Coulibaly has set himself is to provide evidence to his national malaria control programme in order to better targetd control interventions.
In Mali, malaria represents 32% of the consultations, revealed the General Secretary of the Malian Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Dr. Mama Coumaré during one of his communication published by the online web site afrobone.com dating from April 2018.
Medical Doctor specialized in Parasitology, Dr. Drissa Coulibaly, is a MARCAD postdoc fellow. He is a researcher based at the Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) of the University of Sciences Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Mali.
Dr Coulibaly is one of the Malian researchers whose principal aim is to contribute to malaria elimination in the continent.

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Hommage au Professeur Ogobara Doumbo

Jeune médecin affecté au sud du Mali, Ogobara Doumbo participe très tôt aux travaux sur l'onchocercose, la schistosomose et la dracunculose ; à cet égard, on lui doit la certification de l'éradication de ce fléau dans de nombreux pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
Mais le paludisme est la parasitose la plus grave en Afrique subsaharienne avec, selon l’OMS, plus de 90% des 400 000 décès annuels recensés dans le monde.

Pour vaincre chaque obstacle, Ogobara Doumbo complète d’abord sa formation, forgeant ainsi sa capacité à fédérer les compétences, convaincre les plus hautes instances et fonder une "École". Selon cette approche, il crée avec l’entomologiste Yéya Touré le Malaria Research and Training Center MRTC à Bamako, un dispositif d’excellence doté d’un réseau de villages sentinelles.

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