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AREF receives a $4.48 million multi-year grant to bolster malaria research capacity across Africa

Press Release Today, the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is delighted to announce a $4.48 million multi-year grant from the Gates Foundation to bolster malaria research capacity across Africa. This grant, spanning from 2025 to 2028, will support AREF’s work to...

Commemorating the winners of the Tumani Corrah (TC) Prize for Excellence 2024 Winners

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...

Join us for AREF’s 10th Anniversary Mount Kilimanjaro Fundraising Trek!

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...

Science at the Crossroads: Shaping Global Future Development through Innovation

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...

A call to empower the next generation of African researchers for sustainable solutions.

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.

There’s a science research gap in Africa. Here’s how to fill it

The world is enjoying unprecedented levels of interconnectedness, which has brought enormous benefits, but also some negative consequences

AREF Christmas Appeal 2023

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.

Commemorating the winners of the Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence awards ceremony – press release

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...