Snapshots from our science and bioethics virtual café on ethical and responsible data science for infectious disease control and management in Africa. Many thanks to our panelists, moderator and the organizing team from both PUBGEM-Africa and @dsicamra. @GeraldGmboowa@NubwaMedugu@oau_cor@DSI_Africa
📢Attend the science and society Cafe on "Ethical and Responsible Data Science for Infectious Disease Surveillance and AMR Research in Africa" hosted by @dsicamra & PUBGEM-Africa.
📅 Thursday 29 August 2024
⌚14:00 WAT / 15:00 CAT
Register: https://t.co/CM1EzHVyr6
🦠 Data! "The New Oil:" Fueling Disease Research Responsibly
CAMRA has collaborated with PubGem-Africa to produce a webinar on:
🔹 Bioethics
🔹 Infectious Disease
🔹 Data Science
In Africa! 🌍
Register now: https://t.co/mLQOiduKTT
The following study highlights the urgent need for better surveillance, diagnostics and therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance in Africa, which is the focus of the CAMRA project.
https://t.co/tzLnpTkaGn
#AntimicrobialResistance
Call for Applications: As part of @DSI_Africa, the CAMRA Research Hub is soliciting applications for Pilot Project grants. Applicants are invited to submit expressions of intent by 20 December 2022. Learn more here: https://t.co/qplTY9itPg
We caught up with @Fogarty_NIH director Roger Glass on the sidelines of the @DSI_Africa meeting in Cape Town
"The people we fund end up on the front lines"
https://t.co/Gt0u8akS5y
It was really interesting, from their original application in astronomy and now trying out in neuroscience @DSI_Africa! Here is a link to the lab: https://t.co/UORtAVAfVZ with more info.
MPI Tinashe Mutsvangwa presenting our COBIP project at the @DSI_Africa consortium meeting, including discussion of the @OHSUInformatics introductory biomedical and health informatics that will be taken by 8 @UCT_news students in January.
Today's morning sessions focused on the theme: 'Cross border data sharing to harness data science for health in Africa, and moderated by Dr Brad Newsome, Programme Officer (NIH/FIC), discussed topics like "State of African Data Sharing: Challenges to Intra-Africa data sharing."
Some of the Terra @eLwazi_ODSP folk from The Broad at the @DSI_Africa consortium meeting which kicked off in Cape Town yesterday with some inspiring words from Roger Glass. @DannyJPark@sevinsky