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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Congratulations to the MARCAD Postdoctoral Fellow,  Kevin Ochieng’ Opondo, awarded a Science and Language Mobility Scheme Africa Grant

Opondo is a postdoctoral fellow at DELTAS Africa-funded Malaria Research Capacity Development (MARCAD) fellowship. He is based at the Disease Control and Elimination Theme at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds a PhD in tropical medicine- entomology/epidemiology, from The University of Liverpool -Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and a postgraduate diploma in planning and management of tropical disease control programmes from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

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MARCAD PARTICIPATION AT THE 7th MIM CONFERENCE

Twenty years after the first Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference (MIM) in Dakar , Senegalese was once more honored to organize the 7th edition of this prestigious conference, the meeting took place at the International Conference Centre of Diamniadio on April 15th to 20th 2018.

The MARCAD with the Department of Parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine of Cheikh Anta Diop University was the key organizer of the Conference with Professor Oumar Gaye chairing the Organizing Committee
The 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference (MIM) conference theme was ‘’ Dakar II: Two decades of progress, challenges and perspectives in ending Malaria’’.

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Sensitization workshop at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana

The Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa (MARCAD) team of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana held its maiden sensitization meeting on 13th February 2018 at the School of Medicine conference room of the university.

The meeting called at the instance of the MARCAD was chaired by the Volta Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Timothy Sewornu Letsa, in the presence of health managers and health workers from the four study districts.

Professor Tagbor, MARCAD principal investigator at UHAS, took the opportunity to make a presentation on the project objectives and activities to the participants. The two postdoctoral candidates on the project Dr. Gifty Ampofo and Dr. Matilda Aberese-Ako, took part in the sensitization workshop.

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