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News & Updates
March 2 Issue 49
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Happy new month! Welcome to another edition of the CARTA monthly updates. Read on to keep abreast with what is new. | |
5th Vice Chancellors and Heads of Research Institutions Meeting | |
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On February 7, 2022, CARTA held the 5th CARTA Vice Chancellors and Head of Research Institutions virtual meeting. The key goals were to update our partners on CARTA's performance, including funding, work towards strengthening postgraduate training, research, and related research ecosystems at the partner institutions, launch the NORHED II iCARTA project and apprise the audience on the APHRC project dubbed ‘Catalyzing Impact via Africa-led Implementation Research Platforms’ and deliberate on possible engagements of the CARTA institutions in the project. The meeting was attended by 63 participants who included the Vice-Chancellors and Heads of Institutions, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Directors of Research, Heads of Postgraduate Schools, and Heads of other departments from CARTA partner institutions, as well as the CARTA Directors, Focal Persons and Secretariat. The CARTA Co-Director, Catherine Kyobutungi gave opening remarks and welcomed all participants to the meeting and with co-director Sharon Fonn, presented the program’s strategic objectives and the progress in the last year.
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Training on On-line course design and facilitation
The online training kicked off on February 14, 2022 with an orientation meeting. The project targeted 23 CARTA graduates for the full course (4 additional facilitators and CARTA staff were enrolled), and 50 facilitators for the Reframing course (there are still plenty of spots available, reach out if you want to enroll!).
A Moodle platform for CARTA has been set up at APHRC. This is the learning Management System (LMS) that will be available for CARTA courses. A community of practice (COP) platform has been set for online exchange of ideas and information in an environment that promotes collaboration. This will be operational after the targeted group completes the online training.
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Graduations and Completions | |
Congratulations on your Graduation! | |
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Join us in celebrating Joan Mutyoba's graduation (Cohort Six Fellow, Makerere University).
We congratulate her on this achievement!
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Chimwemwe Defends PhD Thesis!
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Chimwemwe Kwanjo Banda (Cohort Six Fellow, University of Malawi) will be defending her thesis titled Self-management for people with diabetes in Blantyre, Malawi: a mixed-methods study on March 7, 2022.
We congratulate her on this achievement and await her graduation!
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CARTA Semi-annual Newsletter is out. Check it out Today! | |
In this issue of the semi-annual newsletter, we take an in-depth look at what it takes to be a CARTA graduate and share some of the millstones achieved. We talk to the professor of public health and medical anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Lenore Manderson, about postdoctoral supervision and what it takes to be a supervisor.
We bring you stories of fellows, graduates, focal persons and partners, of their innovative, creative and triumphant ways, and of the progress, they have made as they worked, taught, and attended meetings and conferences virtually.
Happy reading!
Read the full article here.
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IJPH & PHR - Fee Waivers for Authors from Low and Middle-Income Countries | |
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The International Journal of Public Health (IJPH, Impact Factor 3.38) and the Public Health Reviews (PHR, CiteScore 6.80) - owned by the non-profit Swiss School of Public Health - publish all contents Open Access.
The journals also financially support first authors from low- and middle-income countries to publish without fees, as part of the GLOBEQUITY program funded by swiss universities (until 2024)
Find more details on PHR and IJPH.
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Food security, dietary diversity, dietary patterns and the double burden of malnutrition among school-aged children and adolescents in two Nigerian states | |
With the steady rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children in all regions of the world, the prevalence of underweight children still remains high. Adeleye Adeomi ( Cohort Eight Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University) assessed the association between food security and dietary patterns in two Nigerian states.
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Failure to return pillbox is a predictor of being lost to follow-up among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania | |
Pill count is used to assess drug adherence in people living with HIV (PLHIV). Carrying a pillbox is associated with fear of concealment and stigma and might indicate poor adherence and predict someone who will be lost to follow-up (LTFU). Aneth Kalinjuma (Cohort Ten Fellow, Ifakara Health Institute) in HIV Med, therefore, assessed the association between pillbox return and being LTFU in rural Tanzania.
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The Complexity of Informal Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease in Rural South Africa - Postdoctoral Research Fellow: 12 Months
The MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Unit is a leading health and population research centre that supports a major research infrastructure including a health and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS) covering the Agincourt sub-district of rural Mpumalanga Province adjacent to Mozambique. Taking a life course approach, the Unit undertakes interdisciplinary observational and intervention research collaborating with scientists from South and sub-Saharan African, UK/ European and North American institutions.
The two postdoctoral positions relate to a two-year funded grant that will investigate how families and friends provide care and support in the context of dementia within the MRC/Wits-Agincourt study area.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Eco-Imagining the WEF Nexus
The University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Amsterdam are leading a collaborative research project entitled Ecological Community Engagements: Imagining sustainability and the water-energy-food nexus in urban South African environments (Eco Imagining). Through a transdisciplinary approach, we aim to explore the importance of creative imagination in understanding the inter-relationships between water, energy and food security challenges. By working in local, urban contexts, the researchers seek to generate new knowledge about the ways to maneuver such precarity. Working with local residents and leveraging their understanding of the WEF Nexus, the researchers expect to be able to develop guidelines for partnerships that can help improve the livelihoods, the environment, and the general well-being of urban residents in the South African context. The project is particularly concerned with and will work with youth and explore how age and gender influence water, energy and food (in) security
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AHRC research, development and engagement fellowships: standard route to support mid-career and established researchers
This fellowship scheme allows researchers to carry out high-quality research in any area covered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It also provides the opportunity to develop capabilities as research specialists and to undertake innovative and collaborative development activities.
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Fund for Innovation in Development
Testing, accelerating and scaling innovations to reduce poverty and inequality, drawing on the rigor of scientific evaluation in order to transform public policy.
Deadline: March 18, 2022
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TWAS (the World Academy of Sciences) Call for Applications for their Project Grants for Gender Equity and Climate Action, funded by the Elsevier Foundation.
Under this scheme, three (3) grants are awarded to collaborative teams of 2-5 women for action-based projects which, although scientific in nature, will take them outside the lab to promote practical and tangible change under the umbrella of the “climate action” SDG in their local context. The principal applicant and project leader must be a woman scientist, holding a PhD, living and working in a science and technology lagging country (STLC). Co-applicants are either scientists or technical experts in a field relevant to the project, from any developing country.
The team leaders from the three (3) awarded groups will be invited to an initial training workshop. In case travel restrictions due to the global COVID-19 pandemic allow it, the training will be held face to face in Europe: the programme will cover the costs for flights, accommodation, and food. This cost does not need to be included in your application’s project budget.
The project grant is designed to be flexible and modular, with a total value in the USD 24,000- 25,000 range. It will allow for a variety of expenses within a three-year timescale, if these are clearly justified by the work tasks.
Deadline: May 19, 2022
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Secondary Data Analysis Initiative - Open - no closing date
This grant supports research that exploits existing data resources for social and economic research, created by the ESRC and other agencies, for comparative analysis. It also aims to develop research capacity and skills in using large and complex secondary data.
Grants can be for up to £300,000 for a period of up to 24 months. Funding is based on the full economic costs of the research, with ESRC providing 80% of the cost and the research organisation covering the balance.
Proposals can draw from the wider sciences, but the social sciences must represent more than 50% of the research focus and effort.
Additional primary (first-time) data collection will not be funded under this call.
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PARC conversations on transforming 'global North'-Africa research partnerships: Call for reflections and perspectives
Centring African experiences and perspectives is a vital starting point for understanding and redressing the multi-layered power imbalances- legacies of colonialism- in 'global North' -Africa research collaborations and the global research and science ecosystem as a whole. PARC Conversations aims to provide a web-based reflection platform an intellectual space for African and Africa-based researchers to share their views and perspectives on the nature and implications of such imbalances in international research partnerships-- and on where and how such collaboration- and the individuals and institutions engaged in them need to change.
They hope to encourage contributions from every discipline and field of study - with a view to galvanising conversations that will shape our efforts - and those of others - to champion transformation in global North-Africa research relations and knowledge production.
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Special Issue Call for Papers: 'AIDS in the time of COVID-19
The African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, social science, research journal established in 2002. The Journal publishes papers to make an original contribution to the understanding of social dimensions of HIV, and as such recognizes the impact of COVID-19 on every aspect of HIV. In support of this, a special issue on COVID-19 and HIV will be published in 2022. The COVID-19 and HIV special issue will contain up to 12 invited and solicited articles and an editorial. Authors are invited to reflect on the HIV pandemic in the COVID-19 context, exploring the parallels, divergences and lessons to be learnt.
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Call for Abstracts - 4th Centre for Control and Prevention of Zoonoses (CCPZ) International Conference
Scientists and researchers from the academia and industry are invited to submit abstracts describing original research in line with the conference theme “ Emerging Disease Threats: Mitigation and Surveillance Strategies”. The abstract should be from a country-specific, regional, or global perspective, and should be related (but not limited) to one of the following sub-themes. Submissions from international collaborations are highly encouraged.
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Courses Open at Wellcome Connecting Science
Target Validation using Genomics and Informatics
This conference will highlight advances in the use of high-throughput methods and functional validation techniques that can influence the selection of new drug targets and the development of precision medicine. The programme will also explore the emerging technologies in drug discovery, including AI and machine learning. There will also be a focus on the challenges in clinical trials and translation into the clinic for the benefit of patients.
Summer School in Bioinformatics
This course provides an introduction to the use of bioinformatics in biological research and is run jointly with EMBL-EBI. Course participants will be given guidance on using bioinformatics in their work and will gain hands-on training in resources appropriate to their research.
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Find more opportunities on our website here.
Disclaimer: The opportunities we share are mostly from external funders. Linking to an external site does not constitute an endorsement by CARTA.
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Carnegie Report
CARTA featured prominently in the Carnegie report that focused on their Corporation’s investments in higher education in Africa from 2010 to 2019 and the accomplishments they supported. In this report you will get to find out about their overview and detailed analysis of the Corporation’s three main investment objectives in the following areas: the Next Generation of African Academics initiative, or NextGen; the Diaspora Linkages Initiative; and Higher Education Policy and Research.
Read it here
Country ownership in global health
In this article Mohammed Noor breaks down some of the lessons he has learnt over the last twenty years on country ownership.
Read it here
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Research4Life Resources
Research4Life has partnered with Research Square Company to provide free access to AJE Digital Editing tool to researchers in Group A countries.
AJE Digital Editing tool uses Artificial Intelligence to reduce language disadvantages of researchers who have English as a second language by correcting grammar and phrasing, and helping researchers communicate their work effectively.
Researchers in 69 countries have free access to this tool! You can find the tool on their content portal here.
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