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Who Guidance For Best Practices For Clinical Trials - 4 December 2024

Recently released World Health Organization (WHO) guidance for best practices for clinical trials set a new standard for clinical research, placing participant and community engagement at the forefront to ensure trials meet public needs and build trust. Key updates focus on inclusive trial reforms, particularly for underrepresented groups like children, pregnant women, and older adults.
This guidance advocates for risk-based approaches rather than blanket regulations, emphasizing ethics, efficiency, and tailored oversight. WHO further provides practical recommendations for health and regulatory authorities to streamline and support clinical trials, backed by recommendations for sustained funding.
SFA Foundation through its  Clinical Research and Trials Community Programme and the World Health Organization (WHO) have planned a joint webinar for the African clinical research ecosystem players to explore these transformative guidelines and practical steps to align clinical trials with WHO standards and strengthen local research capacities. 


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Wed, Jun 12, 2024

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program - Applications Due Monday 4 March 2024

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a fellowship program for African institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and member institutions of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and partner universities with the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) to host an African-born scholar to work on projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development. The application process has two parts.


The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program is a fellowship program that supports educational projects in African higher education institutions. This is an opportunity for African-born scholars living in the U.S. or Canada to travel to Africa to work on a project in one of the following: Innovations in curriculum co-development, new approaches and methods to graduate mentoring and training, and impactful research collaboration and capacity strengthening.


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Applications due Monday, Mar. 4, 2024.

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Tue, May 30, 2023

Virtual Workshop: Recognition And Control Of Mtb Infected Cells: From Basics To The Clinic | 13 – 14June 2023

The Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Vaccines (WGNV) and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)are co-hosting a workshop on the topic of Recognition and Control of Mtb Infected Cells: From Basics to the Clinic. This workshop is intended to address the need for correlates and to identify platforms that measure recognition or control of the infected cell - especially in humans - as identified in the EDCTP/AIGHD Global Roadmap for Research and Development of New TB Vaccines and the Strategic Framework for New TB Vaccines in the Stop TB Partnership Global Plan to End TB 2023 - 2030. 

The overall goals of this workshop are to: 

  • elucidate the mechanisms by which the immune system recognizes the Mtb-infected cell 
  • explore the degree to which such recognition can lead to control of the intracellular microbe, and 
  • discuss the translational implications of these observations 

The workshop format will be largely discussion-based. Each session will have three short presentations that will provide a high-level overview of key topics within the session theme, followed by a discussion between the session chairs, speakers, and participants. 

Click here to view the programme and speakers. 

This workshop is free of charge and open to any participants interested in this topic. 

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Tue, May 30, 2023

Ssi/Isid Infectious Diseases Research Fellowships | Deadline For Applications: 16 June 2023

The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI) are inviting applications for their joint Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship Program. The purpose of this programme is to support infectious disease physicians and scientists from under-resourced countries through multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory training at a select biomedical institution in Zurich, Switzerland. The one-year SSI/ISID Fellowship programme is open to applicants who are 40 years or younger, citizens and permanent residents of under-resourced countries or Eastern Europe. The deadline for applications is 16 June 2023. 

More information: https://na.eventscloud.com/eSites/748378/Homepage 

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