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Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is delighted to commemorate Dr. Humphrey D. Mazigo (first winner) and Dr. Debora Charles Kajeguka (second runner up) as the two winners of the 2024 Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence. The Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence which...
In celebration of AREF’s 10th Anniversary in 2025, we are delighted to host a Mount Kilimanjaro Fundraising Trek! Please join us as we climb the highest freestanding mountain in the world to support talented African health researchers to solve challenges that will...
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...
AREF invites you to join insightful panellists discussing how post-doctoral capacity training in Africa can advance innovative research to tackle common infectious and non-communicable diseases, and emerging global pandemics.
The world is enjoying unprecedented levels of interconnectedness, which has brought enormous benefits, but also some negative consequences
Africa’s Researchers per Population Ratio is the lowest in the world, for example, Africa has only 20 Health Researchers per 1 Million Population, compared to other WHO countries, e.g., Europe has 246 Researchers per 1 Million Population.
London, United Kingdom, 1 December 2023 - Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is delighted to commemorate Dr Akin Ojagbemi and Dr Kolapo Oyebola as the two winners of the 2023 Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence which recognises the remarkable successes of our...
New AREF-Roche and Genentech Fellowship to Support the Next Generation of Health Researchers in Africa
We are delighted to award 18 scientists and researchers from 8 countries across Africa as our latest Research Development Fellows.
We are proud to share the news of our recent partnership with GIZ and the Kibong’oto National Infections Diseases Hospital in Tanzania.