Vaccinology in Africa Master’s Level Courses
TheSE courseS provide teaching in both human and veterinary vaccinology, drawing on the experience of the Jenner Institute and LEADING African host institutionS
The courses alternate between East and West Africa. In 2021, participation is limited to attendants currently working or studying in East Africa and applications have now closed for this year's course.
The 2022 course will be for participants resident in West Africa. Information about this course will be posted here in due course.
Attendance is free to participants. Places are limited and participants will be selected based on their relevant experience and background within the vaccine development field. These courses are specifically aimed at students, researchers and professionals resident in Africa and cover the main aspects of vaccinology, the vaccine development process, biomanufacturing, regulatory and ethical issues.
The courses have an exceptional faculty of academic and industrial speakers, and resonates with the ‘One Health’ agenda by highlighting human and veterinary links and synergies between the two fields from scientific, technological and regulatory perspectives.
Previous courses have been held at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana (2013), the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya (2014), the Malaria Research and Training Centre & Centre d’Infectiologie Charles Mérieux in Bamako, Mali (2015), Makerere University/ UVRI Centre of Excellence in Infection and Immunity Research and Training in Entebbe, Uganda (2017), and the MRC Unit The Gambia (2019).
Confirmed 2021 Speakers
Adrian Hill, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Alassane Dicko, Malaria Research & Training Centre, University of Bamako
Alison Elliott, Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Andrew Pollard, Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford
Antoine Diatta, Institut Pasteur, Dakar
Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Beate Kampmann, MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Bryan Charleston, Pirbright Institute
Calman MacLennan, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford & Gates Foundation
Caroline Trotter, University of Cambridge
Chris Netherton, Pirbright Institute
David Jeffries, MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Edwine Barasa, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi & Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford
Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Furaha Mramba, Hester Africa Biosciences Ltd, Tanzania
George Warimwe, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi & University of Oxford
Halidou Tinto, Institute for Health Sciences Research, Nanoro, Burkina Faso
Helen Fletcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Helen McShane, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa, African Academy of Sciences and University of Washington
Julius Mugwagwa, University College London
Mahamadou Thera, University of Bamako
Mainga Hamaluba, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi & University of Oxford
Morena Makhoana, The Biovac Institute, Cape Town
Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi
Pip Beard, Pirbright Institute
Rebecca Grais, Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières
Sarah Gilbert, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Shabir Mahdi, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Simon Draper, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford & SpyBiotech
Simon Kimuda, MRC/Uganda Virus Research Institute & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
Thumbi Ndung'u, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tonya Villafana, AstraZeneca, Bethesda, USA
Vish Nene, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi
William Ampofo, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana