///Symposium: Transformative partnerships: investing and innovating in local and gender-balanced leadership for next-generation of African leaders in Malaria R&D

Symposium: Transformative partnerships: investing and innovating in local and gender-balanced leadership for next-generation of African leaders in Malaria R&D

When: Friday 26 April 2024, 10:30-12:00 (CAT)
Where: Kigali Convention Centre, Room AD12
Organiser: Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV Switzerland) and Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen (Germany)

This symposium will highlight how multistakeholder innovative investment with grassroots malaria researchers promotes capacity for equitable leadership from within malaria-endemic African nations.

Stakeholders will explore strengthening of capacity to end malaria by enhancing academic opportunities for young scientists, identifying significant knowledge gaps and working to address these, and developing the necessary soft skills for innovative leadership in malaria eradication.

We will hear specifically from the grassroots of science: young malaria researchers. They will discuss their scientific and personal journeys reflecting on the importance of facilitating growth in softer skill areas such as communication, presentation, writing and management to promote leadership, and will reflect on the importance of, and challenges around, ensuring gender equity in science.  They will demonstrate how partnerships between the scientific community, policymakers, research institutions and funders can transform capacity strengthening, from a bottom-up approach, to end malaria.

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Agenda


Chairs:

  • Teresa Machai, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM, Mozambique)
  • Joseph Okebe, Merck Group (Switzerland)


Equitable partnerships as a tool for improved malaria control and elimination
Alice Neequaye, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV, Switzerland)

Discussion: Including women on the global agenda, career progression in clinical research, addressing gender and opportunity challenges through advanced degree and practical training to enrich African clinical trial ecosystem
Jessica Dalsuco, CISM (Mozambique) and Dearie Glory Okwu, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL, Gabon)

Partnering to enable higher education and further research skills at grassroots level
Helen Demarest, MMV (Switzerland)

Panel discussion: Consortium perspectives on clinical research skills in the drive to end malaria