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Research Management Programme in Africa
(ReMPro Africa)Global Stakeholders Workshop
21 - 22 February 2019
Nairobi, Kenya
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A Publication ofThe African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) 8 Miotoni Lane, Karen, Kenya
P.O. Box 24916-00502Nairobi, Kenya+254 20 240 5150+254 20 806 0674
AASciences
© Copyright African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) – 2018
Layout & Design | Charles Mugambi
www.aasciences.ac.ke
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Table of Contents
Welcome ..........................................................................4
About the Organisers....................................................... 5
Programme Overview ...................................................... 7
Biographies.................................................................... 18
Organising Committee ................................................... 27
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Welcome We are pleased to be hosting you in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Research Management Programme in Africa (ReMPro Africa) Global Stakeholders Workshop.
Over the past two years, we have convened some of you for our consultative meetings to shape this game changing Programme.
The AAS and partners have identified research management as one of the critical gaps that need to be filled to ensure a strong research ecosystem to maximise the quality and output of research
Thank you for the support you have accorded to us so far to realise our goal of addressing this need. Indeed, with your valued and valuable input we have defined the four strategic strands of the Programme– leadership, sustainability, standards and developing individual capacity– and made significant progress in the development of the ReMPro Africa.
Today’s workshop is a demonstrative of this progress. Having defined ReMPro Africa, we have attracted support from key partners, namely Wellcome, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and UK Research and Innovation. We have further commitment from Royal Society and UK Department of Health and Social Care. We are leveraging more funding from other partners to accelerate the implementation of this Programme.
Additionally, we are in a strong position to implement some of the activities aligned with the strategic strands, the priority being the standards that we are developing at this meeting.
Our hope and expectation is that at the end of these two days we will have collaboratively defined the scope, depth and breadth of the different aspects that should be included in the standard. We look forward to robust discussions over the next two days to ensure we meet the workshop deliverables.
Once again thank you for attending this meeting and sharing your expertise in this very important area. We look forward to further collaborations as we develop the standard and implement other activities under ReMPro Africa.
To those who have travelled from outside Kenya, we hope you will take the time to enjoy this warm and friendly country, whose people remain resilient despite recent painful occurrences.
Karibuni NairobiThe African Academy of Sciences team
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About the organiserThe African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit pan African organisation. The AAS’s vision is to see transformed lives on the African continent through science.
Our tripartite mandate is recognising excellence through The AAS’ highly prestigious fellow-ship, Affiliates and award schemes, providing advisory and think tank functions for shaping Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) strategies and policies and implementing key Science, Technology and Innovation programmes addressing Africa’s developmental challenges.
The AAS has set up a Research Management Programme in Africa (ReMPro Africa) in response to the critical gaps that were identified in building the continent’s research and development eco-systems that support a vibrant research culture and leadership. The overall goal of ReMPro Africa is to address systemic level challenges at African institutions in creating and sustaining enabling research environments for the flourishment of research.
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The African Academy of Sciences Research Management Programme in Africa (ReMPro Africa): Workshop on Good Research Management Practice (GRMP)21 & 22 February 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
BackgroundThe African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) Research Management Programme in Africa (ReMPro Africa) is developing good practice standards to assist African research institutions with benchmarking and improving their research systems and to enable funders to assess institutions they fund, may fund, and/or desire to strengthen. Research management consists of any action that an institution can take to improve the effectiveness of its researchers, but which is not part of the research process itself.
Technically, ReMPro Africa began in 2016 with the launch of a process to develop standards for Good Financial Grant Practices (GFGP). Members of the African Organization for Standardization unanimously voted in favour of adoption of the Final Draft African Standard for the GFGP in June 2018, and the GFGP became a new international standard, ARS 1651:2018. The next stage is to develop an international standard for Good Research Management Practice (GRMP) mirrored on the GFGP process.
The workshop is a component of the first of three linked but discrete projects to develop the GRMP standards. Project 1 is developing skeleton contents of a draft GRMP standard. It started in January 2019 with a literature review and will end in May 2019 with the submission of a final report. Project 2 will develop a draft self-assessment process for institutions to report against the skeleton GRMP standard and a draft process for on-site verification of self-assessment submissions by external assessors. Project 3 will pilot the self-assessment process and the on-site verification of self-assessment submissions by external assessors in a few selected institutions
Objective of WorkshopTo review and discuss an initial draft skeleton outline of a proposed standard for GRMP in preparation for further development by a technical working group. The workshop aims to achieve general agreement on what should be included in a 4-tiered standard for GRMP and what should be excluded. The output for the workshop will be a report which includes the skeleton outline for the GRMP standard with justifications and summary notes of the workshop process and discussions.
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Outline of Project MethodologyAn initial skeleton framework for a GRMP standard has been drafted based on a literature review of published and grey literature, including various institutional standards, ISO standards and with reference to the GFGP standard. The skeleton framework will be presented, discussed and developed further at the workshop. More details will be added through consultations with key stakeholders, including representatives of funders, research institutions and members of research associations, following the workshop. A refined skeleton framework will be presented at a second workshop in April 2019 (tentative).
Structure and Facilitation of the WorkshopThe team is a partnership between the Centre for Capacity Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/research/centres-and-units/centre-for-capacity-research) and The African Academy of Sciences (The AAS) Research Management Programme (ReMPro Africa) (https://aasciences.ac.ke/).
This workshop will be facilitated primarily by Imelda Bates and Aaron Yarmoshuk (CCR). After initial sessions to introduce The AAS, ReMPro Africa, participants and expected outcomes, the workshop will commence in earnest. The workshop will focus on presenting and discussing a list of seven primary components of GRMP and indicators for them.
Workshop SessionsThe principal sessions of the two-day workshop are:
• Welcome remarks
• Goal of ReMPro Africa and outline of process to achieve the goal
• Purpose, objectives, structure of the workshop and anticipated outcomes
• Generation of evidence used to inform workshop discussions on skeleton contents of a Good Research Management Practice (GRMP) standard
• GRMP 1: Research strategies and policies
• GRMP 2: Institutional support services and infrastructure
• GRMP 3: Supporting funding applications
• GRMP 4: Project management and control
• GRMP 5: Career development for researchers and research support staff
• GRMP 6: Training in research skills
• GRMP 7: Engagement with research users
• Validation of indicators to measure outcome/impact in research capacity strengthening
• Summary of discussions and next steps
• Dinner on Friday evening
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Workshop programme on Good Research Management Practice (GRMP)Mara Room, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Day 1: Thursday 21st February 2019
Time Agenda Presenter/facilitator
08h30 Coffee and registration (Foyer)
09h00 Introduction to workshop Nelson Torto, The AAS Executive Director,
Tom Kariuki, The AAS Director of Programmes
Tom Drake, DFID
09h30 Goal of ReMPro Africa and outline of process to achieve the goal
Allen Mukhwana, The AAS Research Systems Manager
09h50 Purpose, objectives, structure of the work-shop and anticipated outcomes
Imelda Bates (IB), Centre for Capacity Research, LSTM
10h10 Coffee break and photos (Foyer)
10h45 Generation of evidence used to inform work-shop discussions on skeleton contents of GRMP standard
Aaron Yarmoshuk (AY), Freelance Research & DLSPH University of Toronto
11h00 GRMP 2: Institutional support services and infrastructure
IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
11h45 GRMP 3: Career development for researchers and research support staff
IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
12h45 Lunch break (Baraka Restaurant)
13h45 GRMP 4: Research training and mentoring IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
15h00 GRMP 5: Engagement with research users for impact
IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
16h15 Wrap up and plan for day 2 IB
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Day 2: Friday 22nd February 2019
Time Agenda Chair/facilitator
08h45 Coffee and registration (Foyer)
09h00 Validation of indicators to measure outcome/impact in research capacity strengthening
Anne Khisa/IB
Group discussions + feedback
11h00 Coffee break (Foyer)
11h30 GRMP 6: Supporting funding applications IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
12h00 GRMP 7: Project management and control IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
12h30 Lunch break (Baraka Restaurant)
13h30 GRMP 1: Research governance, strategies and policies – Part 1
Focus: institutional governance and strategic and annual planning
IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
14h30 GRMP 1: Research governance, strategies and policies – Part 2
Focus: policies and guidelines
IB/AY
Group discussions + feedback
15h30 Summary of discussions and next steps IB/AY
15:55 Concluding remarks AM
18.30 Dinner (Sikia Restaurant)
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BiographiesThe African Academy of Sciences
Nelson Torto, Executive Director
Nelson Torto is the Executive Director of The AAS. Under his leadership, the goals of The AAS are to promote partnerships, mobilise the African scientific community, lead science advocacy efforts and ensure research findings are incorporated into policymaking so that science remains at the forefront of the African agenda and is adequately supported to transform people’s lives. At the core of his agenda is empathy; the stakeholder has to be part of finding the solution to their challenges. Prior to joining The AAS, Torto was the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation.
He has had an illustrious academic and research career and has graduated 19 PhD students during his tenure at the University of Botswana and Rhodes University. He is a Fellow of The African Academy of Sciences, Inaugural Fellow of the Botswana Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). He is a recipient of the Young Separation Science Award by the American Chemical Society.
Tom Kariuki, Director of Programmes
Tom Kariuki is the Director of Programmes at The AAS where he leads the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA Platform), which was launched in 2015 by the AAS and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency (now known as the African Union Development Agency). An internationally recognised immunologist, Kariuki leads the Academy’s programmatic activities to accelerate world-class research, foster innovation, and promote scientific leadership on the continent. He oversees the funding of research, development and commercialisation of novel, high-impact STI solutions for the continent, and is cultivating strategic partnerships with academic institutions, governments and industry globally to transform Africa’s future through science-led, knowledge-based economies.
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Michael Kilpatrick, Senior Advisor, Good Financial Grant Practice
Jennniffer Mabuka, Programme Manager, Human Heredity and Health
Michael Kilpatrick qualified in London with a PhD in neurophysiology, and then entered the pharmaceutical industry as a research scientist. This was followed by a career as a management consultant in the life sciences sector. Following two years as the Operations Director for the Medical Research Council in the Gambia, he relocated to London to be the MRC Operations Director for their units in UK and Africa. Kilpatrick was seconded to the African Academy of Sciences in 2015 to be the Senior Advisor to the Good Financial Grant Practice Programme (GFGP).
Jenniffer Mabuka is Programme Manager at the Human Heredity and Health In Africa (H3Africa) programme of The AAS. She is responsible for the development and management of the H3Africa portfolio of activities and investments. Prior to joining The AAS, Mabuka spent 16 years doing HIV-1 clinical research. Her research broadly focused on understanding host innate and immune factors that modulate HIV-1 transmission and pathogenesis. She investigated host immune responses in mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 with a focus on breast milk transmission and explored antibody evolution in natural HIV-1 infection with the goal of informing antibody-based vaccine design. Mabuka holds a PhD from the University of Washington’s department of Global Health and spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow with the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (now Africa Health Research Institute- AHRI). She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and a 2018 Aspen New Voices Fellow.
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Lydia Makendo Manoti, Programme Manager, Coalition for African Research & Innovation
A development practitioner with over 10 years’ experience, Manoti has worked in various countries in different roles, currently, working as a Programme Manager, Coalition for African Research & Innovation (CARI) and most recently as a proposal development manager, Save the Children International and an institutional partnership development manager, for SOS Children’s Villages. Previously I have worked for Marie Stopes as a contracts manager. She equally supported the running of programmes at Amref Health Africa and USAID Capacity Kenya.
She holds an MA in Project Planning and Management. Manoti’s role at The AAS involves working closely with funding leadership and programme managers and other staff including country directors to provide support and leadership in the development of country level funding strategies aligned with ambitions of new programmes while seeking to grow income in the region by scoping for new partnerships, exploring new income streams, supporting country/regional teams develop new funding strategies/relationships, develop and foster stronger networking of country funding managers and work closely with affiliates to explore new funding opportunities.
Her role also involves supporting monitoring of funding pipeline and leads in income planning/forecasting at regional level while supporting countries on the same. Other specific areas including mentoring and developing capacity of funding managers/staff during her tenure.
Simon Ndoria, Programme Officer, Grand Challenges Africa
Simon Ndoria, joined The AAS as a Programme Officer for Grand Challenges Africa in February 2019. He supports in the implementation and delivery of the Grand Challenges Africa Programme phase 2 projects. This involves enabling innovators transition to scale through development of viable business models, growth strategy and investment and or partnership readiness. Prior to joining The AAS, Ndoria was in charge of the Innovate for Life Fund at Amref Health Africa where he led the fund’s set up and day-to day operations of the accelerator programme that supports African Healthcare Innovators scale their healthcare solutions. Ndoria is passionate about translation of research outcomes into social-economic benefits through sustainable enterprise.
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Allen Muyaama Mukhwana, Research Systems Manager
Lillian Mutengu, Public and Community Engagement Manager
Allen Muyaama Mukhwana is the Research Systems Manager at The African Academy of Sciences (www.aasciences.ac.ke). She is responsible for the Research Management Programme (ReMPro Africa) which seeks to build the expertise necessary to create and sustain robust research enterprise and environments by addressing systemic level challenges at institutions in African. She was previously Centre Manager for the Makerere University/Uganda Virus Research Institute Centre of Excellence for Infection & Immunity Research and Training (MUII-plus) http://www.muii.org.ug . She was responsible for setting up management systems for the centre and service the partnerships and collaborations. Prior, Allen was the Senior Research Administrator and Head of Capacity Building the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), College of Health Sciences, Makerere University (https://www.idi-makerere.com). Whilst at IDI she established the research systems and support functions and developed the governance framework.
She holds an MBA from the Eastern & Southern Institute of Management and Post Graduate Diplomas in; Clinical Trials Management (Karolinska Institutet), Global Program Management and Evaluation (University of Washington) and Applied Clinical Research & Evidence-Based Medicine (Makerere University College of Health Sciences).
Lillian Mutengu is responsible for strategic planning and execution of the engagement support programme for grant holders receiving funding through AAS’s programmes. Mutengu has over 20 years’ community and public engagement and communication experience in biomedical research and sexual reproductive health. Her focus has primarily been on HIV/AIDS, Ebola and adolescent health, establishing programmes and leading teams to identify and execute innovative strategies that support better understanding of communities and cohorts, and testing candidate vaccines and medical devices in clinical trials. Mutengu has also contributed to policy advocacy, through development of national and global guidelines including the Good Participatory Practice Guidelines for Biomedical HIV Prevention Research, Guidelines for Conducting Adolescent HIV Sexual & Reproductive Health Research in Kenya, and the Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth in Uganda (PIASCY).
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Judy Omumbo, Programme Manager, Affiliates and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Judy Omumbo joined The AAS in May 2018 as a Programme Manager for the Affiliates and postdoctoral programmes. She has over 20 years of experience in epidemiology focusing on research to support malaria control programs, where she focused on developing effective partnerships between researchers and vector-borne disease control programs; emphasizing the use of national data, research, and health information systems for monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
She has played a major role in building the capacity of national control programs through curriculum development; providing training of trainers and supporting programs to develop tools to collate, analyze, and display their own data. Judy has worked in the capacity of a consultant and published research in climate, vector-borne diseases, and health, as the head of a policy and practice unit of an international malaria research program, and as director of Public Health M&E for the MEASURE Evaluation PIMA Project. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master’s in Public Health.
Alphonsus Neba, Deputy Programmes Director- Science Support and Systems
Alphonsus Neba is the Deputy Programmes Director- Science Support and Systems, a post which he was appointed to in December 2018. He still retains principal responsibility for the Wellcome Trust-supported Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training, and Science (DELTAS Africa), which he has led as Programme Manager from its inception in 2015 and continues to provide guidance and supervision to the DELTAS Africa team.
Before joining the DELTAS Africa programme, Neba was Assistant Director for Research Commercialisation and Technology Transfer, and Acting Assistant Director for Research Funding and Grants Management at the University of Botswana. He holds a PhD in Biotechnology and an MSc in Environmental Biotechnology from South Africa’s Rhodes University; a Master’s degree in Information Sciences from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and a BSc Hons degree in Microbiology from the University of Lagos. He further holds several certificates including Converting Technology to Wealth from the University of Texas at Austin in the US, Bioentrepreneurship from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Developing STI Policy in Developing Countries from the World Bank Institute.
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Vincent Nkundimana , Programme Officer, Good Financial Grant Practice
Edward Abira, Programme Officer, Good Financial Grant Practice
Vincent Nkundimana joined The AAS as a Programme Officer for Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) in April 2018.He is charge of operationalizing the Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) programme to ensure it is providing the full range of services that meet the needs and expectations of Grantors, Grantees and other stakeholders of the Global Grant Community in order to strengthen Africa’s research and development infrastructure.
Nkundimana joined The AAS with over five years of experience in standardization and public policy, having participated in the development of regional (at African level) and international standards (at ISO level). He holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP), double majoring in Trade and Industry Policy & Finance and Macroeconomic Policy, from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA-Accounting and Finance) from Kabale University in Uganda.
Edward Abira is a Programme Officer for the Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) Programme at The AAS. He is responsible for operationalizing the Global Grant Community portal, an online self-assessment tool based on the GFGP Standard, that helps Grantors and Grantees complete the funding due diligence process in a more efficient and tech savvy way. Edward has previously worked as a Senior Accountant for Silicon Valley based fintech firm, Branch International and helped operationalize their Kenya and Nigeria offices. He has also project managed the deployment of various high value tech projects in Kenya.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Strathmore University, Certified Public Accountant qualifications from KCA University and is pursuing an MBA in Management Information Systems.
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Imelda Bates, Head of the Centre for Capacity Research, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Imelda Bates is a clinician and an experienced research leader with a well-established international reputation for original research in public health issues. She established and leads the Centre for Capacity Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, which is at the forefront of innovative research into the science of capacity strengthening, with a focus on institutional research capacity and laboratory systems. She has over 30 years’ experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams and multi-site research in low income countries, predominantly in Africa.
About the Facilitators
Anne Khisa, Postdoctoral Fellow, African Population and Health Research Centre
Anne M. Khisa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) https://aphrc.org/. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Sciences awarded by the University of Nairobi in 2016. In addition, she holds a Master of Arts in Gender and Development Studies from the same university. As a postdoctoral researcher in the research capacity strengthening division, her focus is on conducting research on higher education and research capacity strengthening. Her portfolio includes leading work on developing impact indicators for research strengthening capacity initiatives in Africa, which is a collaborative project between the APHRC and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). Other ongoing research interests focus on inquiry of gender equality in doctoral training in Africa; and supervision and mentorship of women in science in Africa. Discussion and a summary of her previous research work focusing on obstetric fistula, a women’s reproductive health condition is available here Khisa linkedin
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Aaron Yarmoshuk, Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Aaron Yarmoshuk is a researcher and consultant based in Canada. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Aaron has worked across East, Southern and West Africa for 20 years on a range of projects with rural communities, universities and private companies, and conducting research. For 10 years he managed a portfolio of partnerships with sub-Saharan African universities, including Moi University in Kenya, University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria and the University of Namibia, for the University of Toronto. His consults in global health, higher education internationalisation and corporate social responsibility. Aaron completed his PhD in Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He holds a BA (Honours) from Dalhousie University, Canada, and a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
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Steering Committee
Ernest Aryeetey is the founding Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), a network of 16 of Africa’s flagship universities. He is a Professor of Economics and former Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana (2010-2016). He was also previously Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) (2003-2010) at University of Ghana and the first Director of the Africa Growth Initiative of Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Professor Aryeetey studied Economics at University of Ghana and undertook graduate studies at Universitaet Dortmund, completing in 1985. He has held academic appointments at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London), Yale University and Swarthmore College in the U.S. at various points in time. Ernest Aryeetey was appointed a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations University by the U.N. Secretary-General in May 2016, and was previously Chairman of the Governing Board of UNU-World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki). He is also a member of the Governing Board of the Centre for Development Research at University of Bonn. He served as Resource Person and member of the Programme Committee of the African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi) for many years. He is currently a Board member of Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited.
Ernest Aryeetey’s research focuses on the economics of development with interest in institutions and their role in development, regional integration, economic reforms, financial systems in support of development and small enterprise development. He is well known for his work on informal finance and microfinance in Africa. He has consulted for and advises a broad range of international agencies. Ernest Aryeetey has published three books, nine edited volumes, and numerous journal articles. Among his publications are “Financial Integration and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Economic Reforms in Ghana: the Miracle and the Mirage”. His latest publication is the edited volume “Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence”, Oxford University Press, March 2017.
One of Ernest Aryeetey’s strategic priorities as Vice Chancellor at University of Ghana was to develop the University into a research-intensive institution that supports structural transformation in Ghana and in Africa. He led his colleagues to engage in building many new research and graduate programmes that aim to both advance knowledge and to promote national development.
Ernest Aryeetey, Secretary General, African Research Universities Alliance
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Jonathan Chuks, Director of Research & Academic Planning/Coordinator of Projects, Association of African Universities
Jonathan Chuks is currently the Director of Research & Academic Planning/Coordinator of Projects at the Association of African Universities (AAU), Accra, Ghana. Before joining the AAU, he worked at the University of Ghana for 12 years having attained the position of Associate Professor at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. He has worked as the Deputy Director at RIPS for about four years and the Coordinator of academic programmes at RIPS for seven years. Additionally, he has worked as the Acting Executive Director of the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) for two years.
He has written extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed to reports and book chapters. He has edited three books and is the author of one book. Prof. Mba has Ph.D, MPhil, and M.A. degrees in Demography and B.Sc (Hons.) degree in Statistics.
Exnevia Gomo, Associate Professor, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences
Exnevia Gomo is an Associate Professor (Immunology) in the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (UZCHS) since 2011. He is also the pioneering Director of the UZCHS Research Support Centre (RSC). Gomo has several publications in peer reviewed journals on infectious diseases particularly HIV and parasitic infections. Through his senior research positions and further training Gomo acquired experience in research management. He has led the establishment of research support centres in Malawi and Zimbabwe and provided support for similar initiatives in Zambia, Uganda and Rwanda. He has contributed significantly to development of research management capacity in several other institutions in Zimbabwe.
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Coumba Toure Kane, Professor of Microbiology and Bacteriology Virology, Dakar University
Coumba Toure Kane is a PharmD, PhD, Professor in Microbiology and Bacteriology Virology at Dakar University. She is the Scientific Director and lead of the Molecular Biology platform at the “ Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidémiologique et de Formation (IRESSEF). She is the head of Bacteriology-Virology Laboratory of Dalal Jamm University Teaching Hospital in Dakar.
Her research interests include the molecular epidemiology, physiopathology and Drug Resistance of HIV and many other infectious diseases agents. In the Health field she assisted in the implementation of Alternative tools for the virologic monitoring of HIV infected patients including the DBS (Dried Blood Spot) for Viral Load and Genotyping assays. She has contributed to the documentation of molecular epidemiology of HIV in several countries of the African AIDS Research Network. She also contributed to the scaling up access to Viral Load and EID (Early Infant Diagnosis) in many countries. With CDC Atlanta she is in charge the EID and VL PT panel production and management for many Pepfar Countries in Africa.
She’s involved in many research projects on preventive and therapeutic strategies (HIV and Hepatitis B and C), Bacterial Resistance and other virus-induced Cancers and. She authored or co-authored more than 150 papers published in International peer-reviewed journals.
She is a member of many scientific boards.
Yolande Harley, Health Sciences Faculty Manager: Research Enterprise, University of Cape Town
Yolande Harley is the Health Sciences Faculty Manager: Research Enterprise of the University of Cape Town. She manages initiatives to advance health research at UCT as well as to develop partnerships and source major funding. In addition, she provides strategic management for the Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa), offering executive oversight and coordination of initiatives to further science, foster collaborations and raise funds. Before joining UCT she worked as Deputy Director of Research for Action Medical Research, a charitable funder in the UK. Since 2005 she has focused on strategic advancement of research, including major proposal development, research management, science communications, evaluation and impact reporting, research advocacy and network building.
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Catherine Kenyatta, Chief Operating Officer, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme
Catherine Kenyatta has over 20 years’ experience in managing in research and development organisations. After completing her PhD, she started working at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Kenya; before taking up a series of positions as consultant and advisor on agriculture and food related issues in the horn of Africa with USAID, the University of Missouri and Tuskegee University. In 2001, Kenyatta returned to ICRAF as Manager for programme planning and resources, and 2005 left to work with the University of Missouri as Director of a project focused on supporting development and governance activities in Southern Sudan. In 2006, she joined the MDG Centre of the Earth Institute at Columbia University managing planning and operations. Kenyatta joined the Programme in 2009 and is responsible for the strategic development and management of all the support functions at the Programme – finance and procurement; human resources; facilities; transport; security; health and safety; and, information technology. A member of our senior management team, Kenyatta leads for the Programme on risk management and business continuity.
John Kirkland, Chief Operating Officer, UK National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
John Kirkland has been Chief Operating Officer at the UK National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) since July 2018. Prior to this he undertook assignments as Senior Advisor to the Wellcome Trust, assisting with the establishment of the current programme, and South African National Research Foundation, advising on new international programmes. He was previously Deputy Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth Scholarship programme for eighteen years until September 2017. Kirkland received his doctorate from Brunel in 1989, and he qualified as a Chartered Company Secretary in 2003. He was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E) for services to Commonwealth universities in 2015.
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Natasha Bevan, Head of International Grants, Royal Society
Natasha Bevan is Head of International Grants at the Royal Society, the national academy of science in the UK, where she oversees the direction and delivery of the organisation’s international research funding programmes and its funding partnerships including for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining the Royal Society in 2016, she was Head of International at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for social sciences and humanities, leading on the development and delivery of its international strategy, policy and programmes. Between 2006 and 2011 she was Acting Secretary-General and Senior Programme Specialist for the UK National Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with a particular focus on UNESCO’s higher education and sciences programmes. She has worked on a number of capacity development programmes during her career including during time spent at the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.
Afua Yeboah, Senior Assistant Registrar, University of Ghana
Afua Yeboah is a Senior Assistant Registrar at the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) at the University of Ghana. She joined the University of Ghana in 2007 and was assigned to the School of Research and Graduate Studies with responsibility for the research administration schedule. From 2007 – 2010, she served as secretary to the University Research Committee which was responsible for managing the UG Conference Grant Scheme, UG Faculty Development Scheme, UG Research Grants Scheme; responsible for organising capacity building workshops for faculty, staff and students; managed a variety of graduate scholarships; and, managing the graduate theses office.
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Eunice Muthengi, Research Specialist, East Africa Research Hub, Department for International Development
Eunice Muthengi is a Research Specialist with the East Africa Research Hub of the Evidence Division of DFID. She oversees the Hub’s portfolio of initiatives to strengthen research systems in Africa and promote effective investments in science, technology and innovation. This includes support for the AESA programmes of the African Academy of Sciences, building research leadership through DELTAS Africa, and technical support to national research councils through the Science Granting Council’s Initiative. Muthengi obtained a Master’s degree with a research specialisation from Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with a concentration in demography. Prior to joining DFID, she was an Associate at the Population Council in Nairobi, where she designed and managed large-scale research projects and randomised controlled trials.
Garry Aslanyan, Manager of Partnerships and Governance TDR, World Health Organization (WHO)
Garry Aslanyan joined the World Health Organization’s Special Program on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) in 2009. He is responsible for managing a wide range of partnerships and engagement with global health stakeholders in order to mobilize program resources. He also runs the governing bodies for TDR, all of which support the overall strategy. Aslanyan manages the collaboration of TDR with six regional WHO offices and coordinates the ESSENCE on Health Research, an initiative of research funders. He previously worked as the principal health advisor and director in federal government for the Public Health Agency of Canada and Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa, Canada. He is a founding member of the International Professional Recognition Council of the Southern African Research Management and Innovation Association (SARIMA).
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Silke Blohm, Pan-African University in Cameroon
Silke Blohm is an international Higher Education expert. A focus of her work in recent years has been on change management at an institutional level as well as HE development in an international context. She will shortly be taking on a new role in support of the Pan-African University in Cameroon.
Most recently she worked as Director of Research and Enterprise at SOAS, University of London. Her previous positions involved establishing the Office of Research Services at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and a role as Managing Director of the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia.
Bassirou Bonfoh, Director, African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence
Bassirou Bonfoh is a Togolese veterinarian who holds a PhD in biology. He worked for five years in West Africa as livestock development programme coordinator with Vétérinaires Sans Frontières. Bonfoh served for four years as an epidemiology postdoctoral researcher on health risks in the animal source food value chain at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. He also spent four years leading a research group on extensive pastoral production systems at the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Central Asia in the framework of the NCCR North-South, where he contributed to validating the One Health concept on zoonosis control. Bonfoh is Professor in epidemiology, and, since 2009 and the Director of the consortium Afrique One-ASPIRE/DELTAS Africa initiative. He is chair of the scientific advisory board of the Inter-States Veterinary School, Associate Professor at University of Liege (Belgium), and, since 2017, a Fellow of The African Academy of Sciences.
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Linsey Dickson, Head of Research Development & Performance, University of Stirling
Linsey Dickson is Head of Research Development & Performance at the University of Stirling, leading on two areas, one focussing on delivery of increased grant capture and the other supporting broader research performance including post graduate research support and researcher development. Dickson also sits on the Board of ARMA, chairing the Professional Development Committee and has overseen the refresh of ARMA’s professional qualifications and the current refresh of our Professional Development Framework as well as leading the annual conference for the association. She represents ARMA on the Research Organisations Consultation Group which advices the Research Councils on all aspects of research funding administration and policy and the UKRI Gender Equality Act Compliance External Advisory Board. She is passionate about professional development and supporting those working within research and research support.
Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele, Senior Lecturer of African Literatures and Cultural Studies, University of Buea
Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele is a Senior Lecturer of African Literatures and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of Buea. She is also dead of the division in charge of Research and Publications in the same university. Her research interests are feminist and gender literary criticisms, narrative ethics, decolonial, marginality and eco-cultural issues. She has published articles in national and international peer-review journals and has co-edited two books: Eco-cultural Perspectives and Perspectives on Marginality. She is a member of CELLA, FRONTIERS, VESPERS, CaPROWN and WAACLALS Literature and Language research groups in Cameroon and Africa.
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Sapna Marwaha, Head of Research Contracts, The University of Nottingham
Sapna Marwaha is Director of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators UK. Marwaha is a dual-qualified solicitor by profession and specialises in advising on legal and compliance issues relating to research, including research contracts. She has led the ARMA Special Interest Group for Research Contracts for several years, regularly delivering training, workshops and resources for the ARMA community. Marwaha is currently the Head of Research Contracts at the University of Nottingham, leading a large team of legal and contracts staff to provide support for the research agenda across the University.
Patricia Masego Makepe, Director of the Centre for Business Management, Entrepreneurship and General Education, Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Patricia Masego Makepe serves at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) as Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Business Management, Entrepreneurship and General Education. She previously served as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Botswana; and, was the first woman Chair of the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC) Collaborative Masters Programme Academic Board. She holds board memberships in several national organizations. Makepe is an accomplished scholar with over 20 years’ experience in teaching, research and management. She has worked as a consultant for various national and international organisations including the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC), Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to name a few.
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Anteneh G. Mekonen, Finance and Procurement Director, Armauer Hansen Research Institute
Anteneh Mekonen joined AHRI in June 2015 and is responsible for the delivery of finance and procurement service of the grant and government account of the institute. Mekonen has over 10 years’ experience in providing professional services across a broad range of finance areas including compliance, business process, grant management and logistic administration. Prior to joining AHRI, Mekonen held finance manager and senior finance officer positions working with not-for-profit and government organisations in Ethiopia.
Peter Mwita, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Linkages, Machakos University
Peter Mwita is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Linkages) and Professor of Statistics at Machakos University, Kenya. He has over 23 years’ experience in academic, research, publication and supervision of postgraduate students. Previously, he held positions of Dean, School of Mathematical Sciences and Chairman, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences both at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. He is the founding Chairman of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Board of Directors and founding Chairman of the Kenya National Statistical Society.
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Harriet Nambooze, Programme Coordinator of THRiVE-2, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
Harriet Nambooze is a Programme Coordinator of THRiVE-2, a capacity-building programme for mid-level faculty at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences. She graduated with a Master’s of research administration and management from the University of Central Florida in 2014. She has over 10 years of experience in research administration management of donor funded programs at Makerere University in Uganda. Under her leadership, she set up systems for submission of applications to funding agencies and continues to guide the writing of grants and grants management.
Yogi Naik, Director of the Research & Innovation Office, National University of Science & Technology
Yogi Naik has a PhD in Biochemistry and has published papers in biochemical and environmental toxicology. He is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science & Health at the National University of Science & Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Currently, he is the Director of the Research & Innovation Office at NUST. He is a member of the Southern African Research & Innovation Management (SARIMA) Committee portfolios for Africa Engagement and Research Management. He is also the Focal Point for Zimbabwe on the SRIM initiative of SARIMA/DST. He is particularly interested in engaging the Research & Technology Transfer Managers (R&TTM) in countries within SADC in order to promote and strengthen R&TTM within tertiary institutions. Naik is the Project Lead on behalf of SARIMA on the Science Granting Council Initiative (SGCI) since July 2018.
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Josepha Foba Ngenefeme, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Chemistry Department, University of Buea
Josepha Foba Ngenefeme is an associate professor of materials chemistry at the University of Buea, Cameroon. She has over 24 years of experience providing support for university research. She has served successively as junior and middle level research administrator at the University of Buea for over 18 years (Head of Service for University Research and Head of Division for University Research and Publications). She is currently the Head of the Chemistry Department at the University of Buea and is actively involved in efforts to promote materials research across sub-Sahara Africa. She is the regional partner in one of the World Bank Centres of Excellence, PAMI (Pan-African Materials Institute) under the STEM category. She has been involved in numerous initiatives to improve research governance in Cameroon, Central Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. She has served as the Secretary General of CARIMA since its creation in 2012 and collaborates extensively with sister organisations in West, East and Southern Africa.
Ole F. Olesen, Director of International Cooperation, EDCTP
Ole F. Olesen joined EDCTP in September 2013. He is the Director of International Cooperation for Europe. He studied at the universities of Aarhus, Denmark and Cambridge, UK, as well as at Copenhagen Business School. Olesen holds a Masters and PhD degree in Molecular Biology and an HD degree in international economics. Olesen has considerable work experience in conducting and managing large international projects on pharmaceutical product development. He also worked as assistant professor in pharmacology at Copenhagen University. Olesen worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 10 years, initially as an international project manager and later in the position of Global Project Director. Before joining EDCTP, Olesen was Principal Scientific Officer for Global Health at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, where he was responsible for research in neglected infectious diseases and for vaccine research activities.
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Nadia Tagoe, Grants and Research Manager, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Nadia Tagoe has over ten years’ experience in research and programme management. As the Grants and Research Manager at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, she spearheaded the development of the University’s research management structures, policies, and services. She was also the Programme Manager for capacity strengthening grants such as the NIH-funded Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and the Danida-funded Building Stronger Universities (BSU I and II) initiatives. Tagoe is a Project Management Professional (PMP), has an MSc in Management and Implementation of Development Projects from University of Manchester, UK; and a BSc in Building Technology from KNUST, Ghana. She is currently a DELTAS Africa PhD Fellow examining the interaction between health research capacity strengthening consortium management and capacity development.
Labode Popoola, Vice Chancellor, University of Osun
Labode Popoola holds a 1990 PhD degree in forest economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was at various times, Head, Department of Forest Resources Management, Dean Postgraduate School, pioneer Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, Chairman, Committee of Deans of Postgraduate Schools in Nigerian Universities; Member, Governing Council, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; President, Forestry Association of Nigeria, General Secretary, West African Research and Innovation Management Association and currently, President. He is the Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)-Nigeria; member, Global Leadership Council of the SDSN; Chairman, Sustainability Support Forum, Nigeria. He has published over 160 articles in reputable outlets. A multiple award winner, and a consummate community worker and leader, he is currently the Vice Chancellor, Osun State University, Nigeria, and is happily married with children and a granddaughter.
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Marta Tufet, Executive Director, UK Collaborative on Development Research
Marta Tufet is the Executive Director of the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), which ensures strategic coherence across UK government departments and research funders of international development. Before joining UKCDR, she led the development of the UK Department of Health’s first £450M Global Health Research Programme. Prior to this she was Strategic Partnerships Manager at Wellcome developing and implementing research funding partnerships and capacity strengthening initiatives in developing countries. She has previously worked at Nature, the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the African Academy of Sciences in Kenya to establish the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa. She is a Trustee of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Marta has a research background in malaria with a BSc in biology and a PhD in parasitology from Imperial College London.
Henry Tumwijukye, Director, Global Research Administration & Management Services
Henry Tumwijukye is a lawyer with post – graduate training in Management. He is among the first three African recipients of the NIH IEARDA Award (2007 – 2013). Since 2007, he has provided mentorship and trainings to institutions in Uganda and outside. He is a founder member of ARAA, a member of the SRA and received the SRA’s “Partnership award for Inter-collegiate and International Collaboration”. He has consulted for AIGHD providing support to research support centres at 4 Colleges of Medicine in Africa. He is currently the Director for Global Research Administration & Management Services, a company facilitating Research Capacity development across research – intensive Institutions.
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Organising CommitteeThe AAS
Anita Chami, Programme Assistant
Janet Kariuki, Executive Assistant to The AAS’s Executive Director
Juliette Mutheu-Asego, Head of Communications & PR
Deborah-Fay Ndlovu-Mafu, Communications Manager
Charles Njagi - Online Content Editor
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