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Grand Challenges is a global family of grant initiatives and partners that strives to equip and empower local innovators around the world to solve the health and development issues that have the greatest impact on their communities. The Annual Meeting, held in a different global city each year, aims to catalyze collaboration to advance innovation for impact (https://grandchallenges.org/#/map). 

Meeting organizers collaborated with a Local Scientific Advisory Committee made up of leading scientific experts from across the continent to nominate and select “Rising Stars” – a group of promising young African scientists whose participation at the meeting was sponsored by meeting organizers.

Congratulations on your selection as a Rising Star!

The XXVIII Interational Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Srategies was held in Johannesburg from 18-20 October 2019.

Dr Fokam (TMA2015CDF1027) gave both an oral and poster presentation and also participated in the expert opinion session.

At the National Forum on HIV, PMTCT and Paedeiatric Care held in Cameroon in September 2019, the same work received the award for best oral abract.

As of October 2019, Dr Faith Osier (TMA2015SF1001) is the president of the International Union of Immunological Societies (https://iuis.org/about/who-we-are/executive-council/) for a three year term.

The International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) is an umbrella organization for many of the regional and national societies of immunology throughout the world. As articulated in its Constitution, the objectives of IUIS are:

• to organize international co-operation in immunology and to promote communication between the various branches of immunology and allied subjects
• to encourage within each scientifically independent territory co-operation between the Societies that represent the interests of immunology
• to contribute to the advancement of immunology in all its aspects.

Dr Osier was also recently appointed as a #TOGETHERBAND Amasssador for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health & Well Being.

This week Dr Osier gave a Spotlight talk at the Grand Challenges meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Congratulations on these great career acheivements!

The ICREID 2020 Scientific Programme Committee will begin accepting abstract submissions on October 18 for the March 2020 International Conference (see attached). Abstracts should have a focus around the theme “EMERGING INFECTIONS AND ONE HEALTH” and must be submitted to one of the following four major tracks – (1) One Health, Zoonosis and Emerging Infections, (2) Human, Environmental and Animal Health: The Interfaces of Health Security, (3) Innovations in Public Health, Laboratory Diagnostics, and Networking, (4) Role of National Public Health Institutes in Implementing One Health.

ICREID 2020 Program includes:

o 6 Plenaries: 3 Invited Speakers 90-minute sessions that consist of 3 invited speaker presentations, followed by a 15-minute panel discussion

o 24 Oral abstract sessions are 60-minute sessions that consist of five to six 10-minute oral presentations, each followed by a five-minute question and answer session

o Poster viewing: 60-minute sessions

o Satellite symposia/Satellite sessions

Visit: http://www.icreid.com/