News and Events
Upcoming Events
Genetic Epidemiology in Africa
May 6-11, 2012
Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
Blantyre, Malawi
Deadline for Applications: January 27, 2012
(Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses)
This course aims to describe the key aspects of population genetics and genome-wide association studies (GWAS); participants will be able to perform analyses in their own research. The course will cover both theoretical and practical issues of genetic epidemiology via association analysis, illustrating particular concepts with examples from recent studies in Type 2 Diabetes, sickle cell disease and Malaria.
Advanced Workshop on Research Methods for African Scientists
Bamako, Mali
TBA 2012
The goal of this workshop is to train African scientists and project coordinators on establishing large population-based cohorts. Workshop instruction will focus on study design, understanding ethical and cultural issues in genomic studies, participant enrollment, definition of phenotype, collection and processing, storage and tracking of biological specimens.
Past Events
Ethics and Genomics Research in Africa (EAGER-AFRICA 2011)
Reiz Continental Hotel Abuja, Nigeria
November 28-29, 2011
Information Session for the H3Africa NIH Funding Opportunity Announcements
Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club
Nairobi, Kenya
September 21-22, 2011
Molecular Approaches to Clinical Microbiology in Africa
Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
Blantyre, Malawi
September 10-16, 2011
Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Conference
Cape Town, South Africa
March 4-5, 2011
H3Africa Working Group Project Meeting
Oxford, UK
August 8-11, 2010
H3Africa Press Briefing 
London, UK
June 22, 2010
Publications of Interest
Yuan J, et al. Chemical genomic profiling for antimalarial therapies, response signatures and molecular targets. Science, Aug. 4, 2011. [PubMed]
Press Releases
Media Availability: Screening effort turns up multiple potential anti-malaria compounds [genome.gov]
August 4, 2011
NIH and Wellcome Trust Announce Partnership to Support Population-based Genome Studies in Africa [genome.gov]
June 22, 2010
News Features
African researchers weigh in on ethics of genomic research on African continent [genome.gov]
December 12, 2011
Blog Posts
Broadening our Globel Health Vision [huffingtonpost.com]
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
June 15, 2011
