Do you remember EbolaAlert? Today, its founder Dr. Lawal Bakare and his team launched an app called AlertClinic in Yaba, Lagos. The AlertClinic app was created to answer the question: how can we make sure we detect infectious diseases early so that we can respond and contain outbreaks thereby protecting our communities? The best way…
Exploring Emerging Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity with GET Africa
From the 16th – 18th of August we attended the 3rd African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity in Accra, Ghana. The conference was hosted by the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment (GET) Consortium. Attendees included representatives from the biotechnology, biosecurity, and biobanking industries; health economists; bioethicists; engineers; government representatives from various African and European…