Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Dr Fatu Badiane - Participant

Science for Africa Foundation (Programme manager)

Fatu Badiane, Ph.D. is currently a programme manager at the Science for Africa Foundation. Previously she worked for the Rita Allen Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey (USA) supporting early career biomedical researchers and unique projects on science engagement with broader publics. She graduated from Rutgers University, Newark in May 2019 with a doctorate in immunology. Her research focused on understanding the biology of Ewing's Sarcoma, a common paediatric cancer of the bones and soft tissues, in the hopes of finding new therapeutic targets. She published the findings of her research in several scientific journals. As a graduate student, Fatu was recognized with the Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellowship by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. With this fellowship she worked at the statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey on a variety of projects on governance and policy. As a graduate of Rutgers, Fatu regularly presents at career development workshops and mentors current graduate students and post docs as they begin their careers journeys. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College and a Professional Science Masters in Cell and Developmental Biology from Jefferson University.