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.
Read more: Sensitization workshop at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
MARCAD Communication Officer, Kodou Sene, has attended the 2nd Africa-Asia Communications Forum (AACF) from 22nd to 25th January at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Read more: Africa and Asia Science communications specialists meet in Durban/South Africa
Dr Ousmane Sy’s project titled ‘’ Structuration génétique des populations d’Anopheles melas de la région sénégambienne ‘’ << Genetic structuring of Anopheles melas populations across the Senegambian region >> has been selected for funding as part of the Science and Language Mobility Scheme Africa (SLM) grant a five-year programme led by the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA).
“As part of our general postdoctoral research program, we focus on one of the members of the Anopheles gambiae complex, Anopheles melas, which plays a role as a local (secondary) vector in malaria transmission in the coastal
‘’This was definitely the opportunity for us, young researchers, to meet well experienced people…’’
MARCAD Post-Doc and PhD Fellows participated at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 67th Annual Meeting held in Oct. 28-Nov. 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. They presented their research to the public and got a major interest from the participants of the ASTMH Meeting.
Dr Aminatou Kone is one of the post-doctoral fellows who attended to this meeting. She shared her experience as a young African scientist.
Dakar, the capital of Senegal, was from 1 to 5th December 2018, the rallying point for scientists from Africa and around the world, on the occasion of the simultaneous celebration of the Centenary of the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology (FMPO) of the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD) and the "Homecoming-Delsi naniu_ Return of the old to the UCAD".
MARCAD Consortium Secretariat
Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology
University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar, Senegal