Led by Prof Samson Kinyanjui, The Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL), based at the KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya, is a high-quality training programme that aims to develop outstanding young African scientists into world-class research leaders.
CARTA is a consortium of eight African-partner universities, four research institutions, and nine non-African partner institutions jointly led by Dr Catherine Kyobutungi the, Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya, and Prof Sharon Fonn from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa.
Led by Prof Bassirou Bonfoh, Afrique One-ASPIRE focuses on endemic zoonotic diseases (diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans) through capacity building. Its aspiration is to harness the unique societal drivers of Africa to build a world-leading Pan-African research capacity in One Health.
Led by Prof Abdoulaye Djimde, an eminent malaria researcher, the Mali-based DELGEME aims to develop advanced technical and analytical skills of African scientists in relevant areas of bioinformatics, next generation sequence analysis, population genetics, epidemiology, statistical and cellular and molecular biology in collaboration with local and international partners for malaria control and elimination in sub-Saharan Africa.
Led by world-renowned HIV and infectious diseases researcher Prof Nelson Sewankambo, THRiVE-2 is hosted at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. It aims to transform East African universities into world class research hubs for key emerging health issues in the region.