Author: Dario Scaramuzzi

The NeuroSolve consortium held its Project Kick-off Meeting on the 4^th December 2023 in Lusaka (Zambia). NeuroSolve is a four-year project funded by EDCTP3, lead by an African-European research consortium involves the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM – Tanzania), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA – Tanzania), University of Zambia (UNZA – Zambia), Revolution Worldwide Srl – Impresa Sociale (R-EvoWW – Italy) and Universiteit Ghent (UGent – Belgium).

The third edition of CPHIA was hosted by the Zambian Ministry of Health and took place from 27th to 30th November 2023 at Mulungushi International Conference Center in Lusaka, Zambia.

The topic of the conference “Breaking Barriers: Repositioning Africa in the Global Health Architecture” was explored across nine plenary sessions, several parallel and abstract sessions and dozens of official side events. CPHIA 2023 was one of the largest global public health events because involved 40 different nations with over 5000 delegates who attended the conference in person and over 20,000 virtually. Part of the R-evoWW team took part in the event.

R-evoWW took part to the Eleventh EDCTP Forum in the Palais des Congrès de Paris in Paris (France) from 7th to 10th November 2023.

This Forum marked EDCTP’s 20th Anniversary and the theme was “Partnering for Global Health Research Innovation and Impact in Africa – Celebrating EDCTP: two decades and beyond”.

The INTEGRATION consortium held its annual meeting of the year 2 of the project on 6th and 7th March 2023 in Rome, Italy. During the meeting, the progress of the project was presented by the different members of the consortium.

Professor Andrea Crisanti (Full Professor of molecular parasitology at Imperial College in London – Department of Life Sciences and Senate of the Italian Republic) also took part in the event with a plenary speech on scientific advances in the manipulation of the natural selection of mosquitoes to disrupt the reproductive capacity of malaria vectors.

The Second International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) was held in Kigali on 13th-15th December 2022.

In CPHIA 2022 conference were addressed discussion on need to ensure global health security. The conference also offered dedicated tracks focused on progress in the areas of digital health technologies, local vaccine manufacturing capacity, as well as all concerning HIV, TB, Malaria and Non-Communicable Diseases, and the need of strengthening of health system for equitable and universal health African coverage. In the conference related issues were addressed equity and inclusion, dedicated totally to Woman in Health, as, also the importance of public-private partnership in enhancement of overall health response.

During this conference R-evoWW had the opportunity to present the results of INTEGRATION project.

The INTEGRATION consortium held its kick-off meeting on 22nd and 23rd November 2021 both in person at Hôtel l’Amitié, Bamako, Mali, and virtually. The main purpose of the meeting was to offer the opportunity to exchange knowledge and practices between the INTEGRATION researchers, stakeholders and policymakers, as well as to have a common understanding of the study and any key questions during the study implementation in the routine health systems in Burkina Faso and Mali.

The Tenth biennal EDCTP Forum took place virtually, because of COVID-19 pandemic, from 17th to 21st  October 2021, hosted by the National Institute of Health (INS), Mozambique and the Health Research Centre of Manhiça (CISM). The Opening and Closing sessions were held in person at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre (JICC) in Maputo (Mozambique).

The topic of Forum “Equity in Research for Health” gave the excellent opportunity of networking between over six hundred most exponent from different regions and research fields.

R-evoWW had the opportunity to participate to the Tenth EDCTP Forum presenting, during the Poster Session, the INTEGRATION Project.

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