Monday, 16 June 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00
1.1 Scientific symposia: Leveraging innovative peer-to-peer, North-South and gender-sensitive partnerships to strengthen research capacity across socioeconomically diverse and multilinguistic African regions
Chairs: Rashida Ferrand and Dorothy Yeboah-Manu
Presentations:
Matching and cohorting of North and South research fellows through an innovative global health academy program: The CREATE and SOFAR fellowships
Katharina Kranzer, Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe
Institutional peer-to-peer support for stronger research ecosystems amongst Southern African countries: Southern Africa Network of Excellence-TESA
Francisco Saute, Manhica Health Research Center, Mozambique
Gender-sensitive platform for scientific leadership in West Africa: the TALENT Fellowship as a case study
Toyin Togun, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM), The Gambia