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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Traore on his recent appointment as the new Technical Director of Centre Muraz, Burkina Faso!

Mon, Feb 11, 2019

Asssistant Profrossor Traore has just completed his EDCTP Clinical Research and Development Fellowship where he was placed with Merck, Darmstadt, Germany.

Dr Traore was promoted to Assistant Professor at the University of Bobo-Dioulasso in July 2018 and as of Jan 2019 he took up the role of Technical Director of Centre Muraz in the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) of Burkina Faso.

Congratulations from the EDCTP Alumni Network!

Remembering Dr Jane Wanyama

Sun, Jun 27, 2021 Dr Jane Wanyama, a senior public health specialist based at the Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences at Makerere University passed away on 18 June 2021.
Her death was announced by United Christian Centre, a Pentecostal church based in Makerere-Kikoni in Kampala, where Wanyama was a member of the congregation.
Wanyama attended Makerere University for her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Public Health, and thereafter attended the University of Antwerp in Belgium to obtain a doctorate in Medical Sciences in 2017. She had over 15 years of experience in designing, coordinating, supervising, and implementing research and evaluations on Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).
Wanyama was a current European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) Career Development Fellowship grantee conducting research in adolescent health. 
EDCTP extends their sincere condolences to all her loved ones.

EDCTP Knowledge Hub Webinar - Protocol Development - 25 February 12.30-14.00 CET

Mon, Feb 15, 2021

Following the successful webinar on data management and data sharing, EDCTP and TGHN invite you to join in a new live webinar focusing on the tools and guidance available in the Protocol Development Toolkit on the EDCTP Knowledge Hub, to support the development of high-quality health research protocols. This webinar will take place on 25 February from 12.30-14.00 CET.
We encourage all EDCTP grantees to join us for this webinar, which is an open event and will be particularly relevant to researchers involved in clinical trials in low-resource settings from both the public and private sector, data managers, development partners, other funders, and public health experts.

More information, the agenda and registration details can be found on the EDCTP website: https://www.edctp.org/event/webinar-produce-high-quality-health-research-protocol/

Registration can be done directly via the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9016122698721/WN_nedbD11tQ4ydNijKnA8irQ

Reliable updates on the ongoing COVID-19 Outbreak

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

You can find thre reliable sources of information regarding the COVID-19 outbreake below:

 

The WHO dashboard - provides and up to date situational analysis, updated daily.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd

 

The LitCovid hub – a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19. This site is the most comprehensive resource on the pandemic, giving access to research articles in PubMed categorised by different research topics - General Info, mechanism, transmission, treatment, case reports and epidemic forecasting. The content is updated daily and as this morning there were are 950 papers published in the last 2,5 months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

 

The COVID-19 Global Cases dashboard  - provides daily updated (per country - total cases, recovered, deaths), hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6