Cambridge-Africa Day 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Cambridge Africa is pleased to inform you that we will celebrate Cambridge-Africa Day on 18th June 2024, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm. The event is held every two years and will showcase a wide range of exciting collaborative research projects and capacity building initiatives involving Cambridge academics and postgraduate students in partnership with African colleagues. The day will present many opportunities for networking.
Programme
Our keynote speakers are Professor Refiloe Masekela and Professor Eric Danquah. Professor Masekela, Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, is President of the Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS), the co-leader of the PATS MECOR programme, a capacity strengthening initiative for respiratory health research training. She is the first African woman to hold the prestigious NIHR Global Health Professorship.
Professor Danquah is Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics, University of Ghana, Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) and recipient of the 2022 Africa Food Prize. WACCI trains plant breeders from across Africa to improve African crops in local environments. WACCI is one of the largest Institutions in Africa for PhD education in plant breeding and aims to be the foremost Centre for post-graduate research in crop improvement in Africa.
Please find the programme here.
Programme details:
This event will take place in-person in Cambridge. Online participation is available for those joining from Africa. Please contact enquiries@cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk for the online link. The Cambridge-Africa Day is primarily aimed at researchers in Cambridge and in Africa, African scholars in Cambridge as well as those supporting research collaborations between Africa and the UK.
Event details: In the days leading up to the event, participants will receive an email with the event details. Please only come to the event if you have an in-person ticket.
Location: The address (for in-person ticket holders only) is The Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge CB2 1DQ. The event will be signposted on arrival.
A drinks reception will follow the event.
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Downing College
Regent Street , Cambridge, CB2 1DQ
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