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AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum, 7 - 10 March 2023
The Forum will be designed to inform and engage with policymakers to ensure that the role and contribution of science, enabled through digital technologies, is reflected in European Union and its Member States’ policies concerning Africa. The meetings will also be designed to increase the level of participation and reinforce the networking by African nations’ with their partners in related EU programmes and science and innovation programmes supported by European Union member states and some associated countries. Digital capacities, existing and new, for expanding science inclusion and citizen participation by all groups in society across Africa, will be explored.
Key policy and programme developments include:
The meeting will address a range of themes, including Biodiversity Health, Medicine, Life Sciences, Geoscience, ICT, Digital Transformation, the Green Agenda, Women and Girls in science, Astronomy, reskilling and upskilling and Agri-food systems. In the Forum, we will examine the feedback loops between scientific funding, education funding, and digital transformation to support evidence for policymakers.

The meeting will also consider how emerging regulations covering data protection, medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and other areas impact science in Africa and science and innovation cooperation between Africa and the European Union.

The global context will be considered through the inclusion of speakers from the UN, OECD and other multilateral bodies.

The programme below is still in development so please check it regularly for updates.
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Thursday, March 9 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm
(09850) One Health in Africa

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'One Health' is an integrated, unifying approach to balance and optimize the health of people, animals and the environment. It is particularly important to prevent, predict, detect, and respond to global health threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work together. This way, new and better ideas are developed that address root causes and create long-term, sustainable solutions.
One Health involves the public health, veterinary, public health and environmental sectors. The One Health approach is particularly relevant for food and water safety, nutrition, the control of zoonoses (diseases that can spread between animals and humans, such as flu, rabies and Rift Valley fever), pollution management, and combatting antimicrobial resistance (the emergence of microbes that are resistant to antibiotic therapy).

Speakers
avatar for George Owusu Essegbey

George Owusu Essegbey

Chief Research Scientist, CEO/ Chief Research Scientist, CSIR Technology Development and Transfer Centre, Ghana
Dr. GEORGE OWUSU ESSEGBEY, is the CEO/Chief Research Scientist of the CSIR-Technology Development and Transfer Centre. I was the former Director of the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of Ghana... Read More →
avatar for Kurt Zatloukal

Kurt Zatloukal

Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Director of BBMRI.at, Medical University of Graz
Kurt Zatloukal, M.D. is a professor of pathology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria and is head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular Biomedicine. His research focuses on the molecular pathology of diseases as well as biobanking and related technologies. He coordinated... Read More →
avatar for Colleen Kraft

Colleen Kraft

Chief Medical Officer, Emory University Hospital
Dr. Colleen Kraft is the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She splits her time between hospital leadership, clinical research, clinical care of inpatients and teaching. She is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory... Read More →
avatar for Khilona Radia

Khilona Radia

CEO, Antrum Biotech
Khilona is a passionate, goal-driven and engaging business consultant working across trade and industry development in South Africa. Her recent interest is in supporting MedTech innovators and leads a University of Cape Town spin-off specialising in Healthcare Innovations for Africa... Read More →
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Julie Makani

Principal Investigator, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and SickleInAfrica
Prof. Julie Makani is from the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences [(MUHAS) www.muhas.ac.tz], where Tanzania established one of the world’s largest single-center study cohorts for sickle cell disease in Muhimbili... Read More →

Thursday March 9, 2023 3:00pm - 4:30pm CET
Embassy of South Africa, Belgium
  Health and Diagnostics, Policy

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