• Ghouila A et al. Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer
• Brown DK et al. HUMA: A platform for the analysis of genetic variation in humans
• Ahmed A et al. Organizing and running bioinformatics hackathons within Africa: The H3ABioNet cloud computing experience
• Choudhury A et al. Whole-genome sequencing for an enhanced understanding of genetic variation among South Africans
• Kumuthini et al. Proposed Guideline for Minimum Information Stroke Research and Clinical Data Reporting

• Rafael CN et al. Highlights of the second ISCB Student Council Symposium in Africa, 2017
• Mulder N et al. The development and application of bioinformatics core competencies to improve bioinformatics training and education

• Mulder N et al. Genomic Research Data Generation, Analysis and Sharing – Challenges in the African Setting
• Mulder N et al. H3Africa: current perspectives

• Jongeneel et al Assessing computational genomics skills: Our experience in the H3ABioNet African bioinformatics network
  

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Webinars and Workshops

H3ABioNet will combine their knowledge and experience to offer an array of insights into the world of bioinformatics and genomics grants, and/or proposal writing and job seeking. 
This series will be both formal and informal and allow space for questions and sharing of experiences. It should be particularly useful for PhD students, Post-Docs and other early career researchers who are increasingly needing to write or contribute to research proposals and seek employment.

See Links below for modules offered:

How to series -coming soon

Job Vacancies 

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Funding Oppurtnities and Travel Fellowships

Rachel Strohm - Rachel Strohm of the Mawanzo Institute has a regularly updated list of travel and research grants for African researchers

Htraindb - an H3Africa Portal for Trainees and Training Activities in Genomics and related health research

OFA - is an online information portal that seeks to connect Africans to latest diverse opportunities

Research professional - offers comprehensive, global news coverage of science, technology and innovation policy, and the use of research to provide solutions to Africa’s development needs

Funds for NGOs -  is a social enterprise and online initiative with the goal of increasing the sustainability of NGOs across the world. 

Undergraduate, Honours, Master's, PhD positions and Post-Doctoral Felllowships:

Genetics postdoctoral research fellowship – 2019. Requirements: A PhD degree (achieved within 2 years of this application) in an area of Human Genetics, Molecular/Cell Biology or Bioinformatics and more. Deadline - 26 November 2018. For more info click here

EDCTP Career Development Fellowships. The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to support early to mid-career researchers (“fellows”) by providing them an opportunity to train and develop their clinical research skills. Deadline – 27 November 2018. For more info click here

URL to learn more about event: H3ABioNet Website
To register: WiDS Africa  Registration form

Target audience: Women in Data Science, Early Career Researchers, Fellows, MSc, PhD trainees, postdocs. Academics, Government and Industry officials. Anyone interested in data science.

 

African WIDS Regional Programme to be found on our main website

Register by: March 03, 2021 11:59 PM CAT

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Workshop organizers: Collaboration of African Data Scientists from H3ABIONET, dlabTz and MARI.

Prof. MAMOKGETHI PHAKENG, PhD(Wits), Hon DSc (Bristol), MASSAf, GCOB, FAAS

Mamokgethi Phakeng (formerly Setati) began her term of office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 1 July 2018, where she had been serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation since January 2017. Previous to this appointment she served as Vice Principal for Research and Innovation at the University of South Africa (Unisa) for five years, after serving three years as Executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at the same university. She holds a PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of the Witwatersrand and is a highly regarded B1 NRF-rated scientist with over 80 research papers and five edited volumes published. She has been invited to deliver over 40 keynote/plenary talks at international conferences, and as a visiting professor in universities around the world (in Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Senegal, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA). She has won numerous awards for her research and community work, including the Order of the Baobab (Silver) conferred on her by the President of South Africa in April 2016. In August 2014 CEO magazine named her the most influential woman academic in Africa and in August 2016 she was awarded the prestigious Businesswoman of the Year Award in the education category. In July 2019 the University of Bristol conferred on her an Honorary Doctorate in Science in recognition of her leadership role in mathematics education in South Africa.

Kgethi, as she is popularly known, was elected as a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in November 2007; an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society in May 2009, an honorary life member of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA) in July 2009 and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2018. In 2008 she became the first black South African researcher to be appointed to co-chair a study commissioned by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. The study entitled “mathematics and language diversity” has completed its work and published a volume in 2016, which she co-edited.

She is a member of the board of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG); a trustee of the FirstRand Foundation; the South African Student Solidarity Foundation for Education (SASSFE) and the Pearson Marang Education Trust (PMET). In 2016 she was appointed by the then Deputy President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, to chair the Human Resource Development Council standing committee on Mathematics and Science Education. She served as member of the board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and chaired its Research Development and Innovation Committee from January 2015 till September 2017. She was elected in 2011 as the first woman President of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand and served for five years till 2016. She led the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA) as its first woman National President from 2002 to 2006, served as founding chairperson of the Board of the South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF) from 2004 to 2006 and secretary and member of the executive committee of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) from 2003 to 2007.

Kgethi is founder of the Adopt-a-learner Foundation (www.adopt-a-learner.com), a non-profit organisation that started in 2004 and provides financial and educational support to students from township and rural areas to acquire higher education qualifications.

Opening Talk: Dr Amel Ghouila

Dr. Amel Ghouila supports the coordination of a Data Science for Public Health program in Africa, India and Brazil of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This program aims at building Data science capacities, strengthening collaborations between data scientists and public health experts while leveraging existing data to answer complex public health problems and inform policies in LMICs.

Amel has a background in computer sciences with a PhD in Bioinformatics from the LIRMM, Montpellier. She previously worked for the pan-African bioinformatics network H3ABioNet supporting researchers and their projects while developing bioinformatics and Data Science capacity throughout Africa. Amel is an Open Science and Open Education advocate who dedicated time for designing curricula, organizing training, and leading engaging discussions. She was awarded an Open Science Fellowship from the Mozilla Foundation and was nominated as one of the “50 People Who Are Making the Internet a Better Place.” She is also involved in a number of  international efforts to address ethical issues and challenges posed by digital technologies in public health.

Amel is the Vice President for the African Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB) and the  founder of Technovation Tunisia, the non-profit dedicated to teaching young girls coding and entrepreneurship skills while addressing challenges in their communities as part of the global Technovation challenge program.