06/08/2025
⏰ It's 18 days to go to the highly anticipated Data for Health in Africa Meeting and 5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting at the Cedi Conference Centre, University of Ghana from the 23rd–29th August 2025.
🤝 This landmark event is jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and The National Institutes of Health (NIH).
‼️ The meeting is open to Wellcome Trust and DSI-Africa grantees.
ℹ️ This year’s theme is “Data Science in Africa: Strengthening Partnerships and Collaboration across Networks, Sectors and Impact Areas”.
💬 Meet one of our exhibitors: Professor Nicola Mulder is the Head of the Computational Biology Division at the University of Cape Town. Prof. Mulder led H3ABioNet, a Pan African Bioinformatics Network of 28 institutions in Africa, which developed bioinformatics capacity to enable genomic data analysis. She is PI of the DS-I Africa, eLwazi_ODSP Open Data Science Platform and co-leads a Sickle Cell Disease Data Coordinating Centre and a Wellcome Trust Discovery Data Integration Platform at UCT. She received her PhD in Medical Microbiology from UCT, then worked for 8.5 years at the European Bioinformatics Institute as a Team Leader. Her research focuses on genetic determinants of susceptibility to disease, African genome variation, and microbial genomics and infectious diseases. Her group provides bioinformatics services and training and develops new algorithms and resources for African genomics. Prof Mulder is actively involved in capacity development, including training, education and curriculum development in Bioinformatics. She also sits on several international scientific advisory boards and is currently the interim Director for the African Bioinformatics Institute.
🌐 For more information please scan the QR code in the flyer or go to: https://lnkd.in/eWEzjUEG
