Clinical Laboratory Services (a Division of the Wits Health Consortium) in Johannesburg South Africa aims to support the H3Africa project that will study diseases in African populations to gain a better understanding of factors that affect heath and diseases. CLS will do this by providing a Biorepository (also called a “biobank”)
Eastern Africa Network for Bioinformatics Training – (EANBiT) PROGRAM SUMMARY Developing sufficient mass of research leaders requires a large starting pool of high quality trainees at the early stage of the training pipeline and support to enhance their progression up the pipeline. As such Masters training,
Bioinformatics is now integral to clinical and biomedical research. Without bioinformatics expertise, health research in Africa will remain suboptimal. In fact, researchers on the continent are stuck with Next Generation Sequencing data that they can barely analyze.