Dr Oluwafemi Akande is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. He began his career in a field far removed from global health research. But by combining his knowledge of building design with his interest...
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Improving malnutrition science
Dr Martha Mwangome is a research scientist at KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya. In 2019, Martha was awarded an AREF fellowship and began a placement at Jimma University in Ethiopia to learn about the latest techniques in assessing the body composition...
Tackling depression in Nigeria
Dr Akin Ojagbemi from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, started his fellowship in 2017, undertaking a placement at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Akin’s research aims to develop and expand access to mental health services for older adults living in Nigeria...
Targeting mosquito DNA to fight malaria
Dr El Hadji Amadou Niang is an Assistant Professor in medical entomology from Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Senegal where he studies the role of insects in transmitting diseases to humans.