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You are invited to read our 2019 end of year message below which offers you a brief summary of EDCTP's achievements to date.

Since 2014, EDCTP invested more than €600 million of funding in European-African research & development partnerships engaged in developing new and improved interventions for the poverty-related infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa.

We wish you all a happy festive season, restful holidays, and a healthy and successful 2020!

Here is an exciting opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking research, advocacy and frontline health provision that is taking place at the South African Medical Research Council and in your networks.

The 2019 REACH Awards will be recognizing stories of unsung achievement in disease elimination (Malaria, Tuberculosis, NTDs, and more) and raise awareness of the role of game-changing innovators within the larger global health community. Prominent leaders from across global health disciplines will judge the awards, including:

· Professor Baron Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

· Dr. Chris Elias, President of Global Development Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

· Dr. Maha Barakat, Executive Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership

The winners will receive an undisclosed monetary prize, media visibility and the opportunity to come to Abu Dhabi’s Reaching the Last Mile Forum in November to receive the awards in front of high level global health leaders such as Bill Gates and Dr. Tedros.

About the 2019 REACH Awards

The REACH Awards uniquely honor unsung heroes working in the field of disease elimination who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and commitment. Categories include:

· The Unsung Hero Award honors an extraordinary individual who has played a transformative, frontline role in the field of disease elimination, and has been under-recognized for his or her efforts.

· The Game-changing Innovator Award recognizes an individual who has developed and implemented a creative technology or practice in support of disease elimination.

· The Rising Champion Award celebrates an individual who is championing a cause related to disease elimination.

Nominations will remain open until July 12.

The Awards will be presented at the biennial Reaching the Last Mile Forum in November in front government officials, bilateral and multilateral aid leaders, global health experts, and industry leaders.

The event is supported by Fogarty, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), UK Medical Research Council (MRC), and Wellcome Trust, and will serve as a pilot to help determine if there is sufficient interest in a recurring event in the future.

The event will bring researchers and humanitarian organizations together to share experiences and promote collaboration around health research in humanitarian settings, modelled after the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (which Fogarty also supports). The target audience is early- to mid-career researchers from LMICs and countries affected by humanitarian crises, though the applications are open to all interested parties.

Applications are invited for case study presenters and general participants, with a submission deadline of May 28, 2021.

The following themes for case studies for the upcoming Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research may be of interest (announcement below). Case studies to be presented at GFH2R should relate specifically to the theme of “Research in the Context of Concurrent Crises.” Questions that could be explored in the case studies include, but are not limited to:
• What are the key ethical considerations for researchers working in the context of multiple humanitarian crises? What are some specific ethical dilemmas in these settings?
• How can researchers better engage with communities living in humanitarian crises?
• How can research provide an opportunity for inclusion and nurture leadership of local actors in problem solving in such contexts?
• What are specific experiences and good practices related to the study of specific subpopulations (e.g. vulnerable populations, women, children, etc.)?

For more information visit https://www.fic.nih.gov/About/center-global-health-studies/Pages/health-research-humanitarian-crises-global-forum.aspx

The Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (GH EDCTP3 JU) has opened a call for expression of interest for the selection of the members of its Scientific Committee. The committee will be composed of fifteen to eighteen members, ensuring a balanced representation of experts within the scope of the activities of the Joint Undertaking, including with respect to gender and geographical balance. Collectively, the members of the Scientific Committee will have the necessary competences and expertise covering the technical domain in order to make science-based recommendations to the Joint Undertaking.

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/research_and_innovation/research_by_area/documents/ec_rtd_edctp3-call-eoi-members.pdf