Date: 27th September 2024
Time: 12pm -01.30pm EST
Location: UN Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Join AREF’s Founder and Co-President Professor Sir Tumani Corrah at the concluding plenary of the Science Summit at UNGA 79 for an insightful panel discussion titled ‘Science at the Crossroads: Shaping Global Future Development through Innovation’, where Professor Sir Tumani Corrah will emphasise the importance of inclusion and equity in global science and the need for building resilient research systems in Africa.
AREF’s mission is to nurture, mentor and support a community of post-doctoral health researchers across Africa to become research experts and leaders, capable of tackling African and global health challenges.
AREF’s mission comes at a time when the spread of diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 show the major risks to global health when one part of the world does not have research capacity to timely detect and respond to disease outbreaks.
Africa shoulders a disproportionate 25% share of the world’s disease burden. Common infectious and non-communicable diseases continue to devastate, as new and drug resistant diseases constantly emerge. We are also living in an age where global pandemics and climate change are adding to the threat to lives and livelihoods across the world.
However, research institutions in the Global North dominate research efforts, with African scientists contributing less than 3% to global research publications. If Africa is to respond to the continent’s health challenges, it needs to build and sustain a community of health researchers to redress the imbalance of who sets Africa’s research agenda and priorities.
To get there, the health research sector needs significant investment. Too many of Africa’s brightest, emerging researchers are frustrated due to lack of funding and opportunities to succeed, such that many opt to leave health research altogether.
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