The second Management Board Meeting of Afrique One-REACH will be held from 1st to 7th February 2024 in Arusha, Tanzania. The event is hosted by Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and co-organized with National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) and Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCRI), the main Tanzanian partners. Three key activities will be run during the event: (i) the Annual Management Board Meeting for reporting and decision-making, (ii) a summer school for fellow’s training and (iii) a site visit for policy and community engagements exercise in One Health.
During the Annual Management Board Meeting (1st to 3rd February 2024), 62 fellows competitively selected in 2023 will present – under the coordination of the researcher clusters’ leaders – their respective research projects on One Health to the Principal Investigators, funders and members of the Scientific Advisory Board.
From 4th to 7th February 2024, a summer school will be organized on designing and implementing One Health research projects with different hard and soft skills training modules. As some soft skills modules have already been offered in webinars, a site visit, which is a practical exercise, to get familiar with transdisciplinary methods, research design and data collection and analysis. The training will allow them to learn more about the perceptions and environment of the integrated key actors (health professionals, veterinarians, communities, policy makers etc.) who shape public health intervention activities. Further modules will focus on good practices in research partnerships, data security and sharing, as well as grant writing and disease modelling and socio-economic impacts of collective actions.
About Afrique One–REACH
Afrique One-REACH (2023-2027) is the third phase of funding of the Afrique One consortium after Afrique One (African Institution Initiative of the Wellcome, 2009-2015), Afrique One-ASPIRE (DELTAS Africa I: African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence 2016- 2022). The objectives of Afrique One-REACH (DELTAS Africa II) are (i) to assess and fill key skills and capacity gaps by offering training to the future African research leaders to implement the One Health approach; (ii) to work towards the systematic integration of different scientific disciplines and sectors (biomedical and veterinary sciences, environmental and social sciences), as well as policy makers, practitioners and communities to find and implement practical and collective public health solutions.
