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The team from the Inter-University Council for East Africa on September
13, 2017 visit APHRC center to discuss potential areas of collaboration with
CARTA. IUCEA continuously sets higher education and research policy
strategies and develops appropriate interventions so as to ensure that the
institution continues to effectively serve the East Africa Community.
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Prof. Sharon Fonn, CARTA Co-director with University of the Witwatersrand
Vice Chancellor Prof. Adam Habib at a dinner on the evening of the first day
of the 2nd Vice Chancellors’ meeting in July 10-11, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The summit brought together eight vice chancellors from CARTA’s African
partner universities, three heads of CARTA’s partner research institutions
as well as two representatives from CARTA’s Northern partner institutions.
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Folusho Balogun (Center), CARTA Cohort 5 fellow, from the College of
Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria when she won the UNESCO-MARS
Best African Women Researcher 2017 award for her work on cervical cancer
and HPV vaccine for adolescents in Nigeria. She was awarded during the
3rd edition of the annual UNESCO-Merck Africa Research Summit (MARS)
that was held in Port Louis, Mauritius from November 28-29, 2017.
Representatives from the Department for International Development
(DFID) office in Nairobi visited APHRC on 10 November, 2017. The purpose
of the visit was to familiarize themselves with the DELTAS program through
AESA and learn more about the CARTA program. The team was led by
the DFID’s Deputy Director, Sian Rasdale, Head of Evidence Department,
Research and Evidence Division. Also present were representatives from
the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Tom Kariuki, Director, AESA and
Alphonsus Neba, DELTAS’s Program Manager.
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Peter Ngure (at the back) represented APHRC at the WHO Human
Reproductive Programme (HRP) Alliance partners’ meeting on October
31-November 2 in Accra, Ghana. Part of the discussion was on technical
updates on the research capacity strengthening activities of the HRP
Alliance as well as HRP sexual and reproductive health and rights research.
The WHO hubs discussed the modalities of collaboration in capacity
building and the possibilities for multi-country research. APHRC will
collaborate with other hubs to fundraise for the planned activities.
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CARTA Graduate Workshop Coordinator Hakan Billig from the University of
Gothenburg consults with CARTA Graduate Diana Menya on September
25, 2017 during the five-day workshop in Nairobi at the Safari Park Hotel.
The aim of the workshop is to equip post-doctoral early career researchers
with key skills to develop grant-winning proposals.