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Virtual Networking Exchange
24th of April 2024

Recorded sessions
Time (CAT) Activity
2:00 pm Welcome and Overview of Networking Exchange (Amit Mistry, NIH, 5 min)
2:05 - 2:10 Overview of DS-I Africa (Michelle Skelton, DS-I Africa Coordinating Center, 5 min)
2:10 - 2:15 Brief Overview of DS-I Africa Partnerships & Outreach Working Group (Rachel Maina, 5 min)
2:15 - 2:20 Transition
2:20 - 3:05 Networking Round 1 Breakouts (45 min)
Room 1 - Health research centers - 1
  • National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB)
  • Ethiopian Public Health Institute
 Room 2 - NGO/Non-Profit
  • Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS)
  • Management and Development for Health (MDH)
 Room 3 - Consulting Services
  • InSiGHt Health Consulting Ltd
  • Regional Centre For Mapping Of Resources For Development (RCMRD)
 Room 4 - Open Science Network
  • African Open Science Platform
  • Center for Translational Data Science (Gen3)
 Room 5 - Health research centers - 2
  • Institute of Human Virology Nigeria
  • Akros
  • Dodowa Health Research Center
3:05 - 3:10 Transition
3:10 - 3:55 Networking Round 2 Breakouts (45 min)
  Room 1 - NGO / Non-Profit
  • IntraHealth International
  • Tanzania Human Genetics Organization
  • Centre de Recherches Cliniques de L'institut National de Recherche Biomédicale
Room 2 - Health research centers - 3
  • African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
  • Africa Research Institute for AI (ARIFA)
 Room 3 - Private Sector
  • Histofi, Inc.
  • Brain, Inc.
 Room 4 - Global Networks
  • AFREhealth
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
 Room 5 - Health research centers - 4
  • National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
  • Nestra Klinikal
3:55 - 4:00 Transition
4:00 - 5:15 Networking Round 3 (Plenary Format, 75 min)
Research funding organizations will give 10-min overviews of their agency followed by 20 min of facilitated group Q&A with the full audience in plenary
5:15 - 5:30 Event concludes