A 2-Day Translational Vaccinology training concludes at #MRCG with participants from #Gambia & #SierraLeone. Organised with 🤝 @europevaccine.bsky.social & funded by #EDCTP, the training seeks to bridge the gap between research #VaccineDevelopment, manufacturing, testing & application. #MMVC

📢We’re #Hiring! Are you passionate about creating engaging digital content - videos, photos, & graphics that bring our research to life? Join our team as a Digital Content Officer & help showcase impact & make #HealthResearch accessible! Apply now 👉 tinyurl.com/43jmbv8j #Communications

#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness. From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth. 📆 26 Nov 2025 🕦17:15 GMT Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2

We wrap up the #DataScience & #AI Conference with the Poster and#Hackathon award ceremony! 🎉 Participants tackled real-world health data challenges with innovative AI-driven solutions. #Nurturing #Learning #YoungTalent #MRCGDataScienceConference2025

An exciting #DataScience month concludes with the #AI Conference under the theme “Empowering The Gambian Health Research Through Data Science & AI.” It brought together experts , partners on data infrastructure, #AI for health research & innovation. #HealthcareInnovation 1/4

As part of our #TrialsDay2025, participants showcased posters highlighting #ClinicalTrials, innovations, and lessons learned from across the research hubs. These presentations reflect our ongoing commitment to advancing scientific excellence & collaboration in #GlobalHealth. #ClinicalResearch

#HappeningNow The 3rd Annual Trials Day with @lshtm.bsky.social & MRC Uganda, is here! A platform for researchers, students and experts across the globe to showcase their work, share innovations, & discuss challenges in trial design & delivery. #ResearchCollaboration #LSHTMTrialsDay

Our Director & leadership team visited #PasteurDakar’s new Director Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall to discuss renewing #collaborations in health security, #ClinicalResearch & #EpidemicPreparedness. Together, we aim to build a stronger, more resilient African research ecosystem. #GlobalHealth #Partnerships

In collaboration with Gambia's Ministry of Health & partners, we concluded a 2-day training on implementation #HepatitisB rapid diagnostic test kits for health professionals, as part of efforts towards the elimination of HIV, syphilis, HBV, the Triple Elimination Strategy. #MaternalHealth

Strengthening regional partnerships! Together with Cheikh Anta Diop University, we have launched a 🆕 Partnership Office, a hub for research #coordination, capacity building & scientific exchange across #WestAfrica. Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/y3js4a6d

#MARCADPlus Director, Prof. Oumar Gaye & PI Prof Umberto D’Alessandro moderated a scientific showcase on cross-border research collaboration between the UCAD & @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social ; organized as part of the official opening of the MRCG–UCAD Partnership Office in Dakar. #RegionalCollaboration

📍Dakar: The new MRCG–UCAD Partnership Office is open! A hub for collaboration, research & capacity building in #WestAfrica. The partnership seeks to equip researchers to broaden capacity needed to address current & future health challenges. #ResearchExcellence #AfricanScience

Gearing up for a new milestone in African science! #MRCG, @lshtm.bsky.social & Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar officially opened Partnership Office in #Dakar, strengthening collaboration for health research across #WestAfrica. #MRCGUCADPartnership #ResearchExcellence #RegionalCollaboration

#HappeningNow in #Dakar, Senegal! A scientific showcase of cross boarder research collaboration btw #UCAD_Senegal, #MRCG & @lshtm.bsky.social. Centred on public health, cross boarder disease surveillance & research initiatives including capacity building, genomics, childhood TB & #HepatitisB.

#HappyFriday! We are pleased to share the another issue of Our Science #Newsletter. This edition features a range of activities & achievements from our Unit. We look forward to sharing more exciting news in our upcoming releases. Enjoy! ⤵️ tinyurl.com/5b7cjebr

👏 👏👏Congrats to our Hepatitis Research Group lead, Dr Gibril Ndow, First Place winner of the 2025 Tumani Corrah Prize for Excellence by #AREF - a proud moment recognizing his leadership in advancing hepatitis research in #Africa.. #HepatitisElimination #TumaniCorrahPrize #ResearchExcellence

Joined partners for the National Workshop on Advancing Triple Elimination, integrating #HepatitisB prevention into routine antenatal care. A key step toward ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis & hepatitis B in #Gambia. #TripleElimination #MaternalHealth #PublicHealth

Our Data Science Cluster kicks off its #DataScienceMonth school outreach to Armitage & Brikama Ba Senior school in CRR to raise awareness on #DataScience, its practical applications, & potential to drive #Innovation & shape the future of #HealthResearch. Next 👉 NBR, LRR & URR!

We are excited to share the launch of the Epidemiological Society of The Gambia (#EpiSoGam), a key milestone for #PublicHealth. A community of scientific experts will work closely together to strengthen disease surveillance, preparedness & response nationwide. #EpidemicPreparedness #Research

🚨 #NewResearchAlert @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social scientists with partners have developed a low-cost tool that rapidly detects low levels of #malaria from a finger prick offering a scalable solution for malaria elimination across #Africa. Read more about this innovation: tinyurl.com/ybmp8p87

Step Inside Our Clinics! Get a closer look at the life-changing work happening every day in our clinics. From expert care to innovative treatments, our short videos show how we're transforming #healthcare in our #Communities. ✅Discover our services ✅See the impact Watch 👉 tinyurl.com/2urf6293

🌸 As part of commemorations marking #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, we collaborated with #ComiumGambia & Gambian Agency for the Management of Public Works to hold a seminar on the disease with their staff. Promoting early detection through public health awareness is 🔑 to beating cancer! #Pinktober

Kicked off #DataScience Awareness Month 2025! This year, our team is focusing on #AI literacy and #community school engagement and an exciting hackathon competition to drive #Innovation in data science. #STEM #HealthResearch #GlobalHealth

📢 We are hiring! Communications Manager Do you possess an expertise in strategic and digital communications? Would you like to join our team in supporting health research in West Africa to save lives and improve health across the world. Apply now 👉 tinyurl.com/43jmbv8j 📅22 October 2025.

Excited to join partners & share key insights from the Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella Study in Basse #Gambia (2022–2024). The findings highlight how Shigella infections and antibiotic resistance continue to affect young children and why new vaccines are urgently needed. #GlobalHealth

Have a game-changing idea on #AI or data science? Want to transform #ChildHealth in #Gambia & beyond? Here is your chance to showcase it! Join the Hackathon/Ideathon Launch to pitch, form teams, & co-create solutions. Deadline: 10th October 2025 Register 👉 tinyurl.com/4ejrrh6f #HealthInnovation

DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 10th 2025! Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work! Submit your poster today and join the future of #Innovation. Send your posters to: [email protected] #DataScienceAwarenessMonth #HealthResearch

Do you have an #AI or #DataScience project transforming health research in #Gambia? This is your chance to showcase it! Submit your poster today & be part of the future of innovation! Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/4ejrrh6f & send your posters to [email protected] #DataScienceAwarenessMonth

Our esteemed colleague, Professor @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social delivered her inaugural lecture today, reflecting on her remarkable 2️⃣0️⃣+ year journey in academic #research. Join us to congratulate Prof. Sutherland on this very significant milestone! 🎉 #InauguralLecture

🎉🎉🎉Today, Prof @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social will be delivering her #InauguralLecture, showcasing her work in clinical immunology & #GlobalHealth research. Read more about her lecture & join us at 4:15pm GMT 👇 tinyurl.com/3mhd97up Stay tuned!

🎉🎉🎉Big congratulations to our Hepatitis Group, for their outstanding achievement at the 8th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA 2025), organised by the Society on Liver Disease in Africa (SOLDA) in Accra, #Ghana. #COLDA2025 1/3

This week we are hosting a training course on Molecular & Genomic Approaches to Clinical Microbiology for microbiologists & lab scientists. organised in🤝with @eventswcs.bsky.social, the course explores how genomics transforms practice, by guiding participants through region-specific case studies.

As part of the #ECOWAS Lassa Fever Conference 2025, @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social with #IVI hosted a side event on the @cepi.net capacity building project on “Strengthening Clinical Trial Capacity & Advancing Regional Epidemic Preparedness for Lassa Fever.” #ELFIC2025 #ARCWA 1/4

MRCG is participating in the 2nd #ECOWAS Lassa Fever International Conference, an opportunity for research partnerships. The theme, “Beyond Borders: Strengthening Regional Cooperation to Combat Lassa & Emerging Infectious Diseases,” aligns with our vision to improve health & save lives. 1/4

Strengthening capacity for data-driven health research! Last week, #MRCG joined partners for a virtual kick off meeting of the #AFRICAI-RI project aims to establish Africa's first federated, multi-institution imaging data infrastructure for AI-powered respiratory disease detection.

Missed out on a ticket for LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED? Our event is proving so popular we’ve released EXTRA online tickets so more people can learn how to fight dangerous health #misinformation! Get your ticket👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Yesterday, we commence a 3️⃣-day Research Leadership and Grant Writing Workshop for senior researchers from 7️⃣ institutions in The #Gambia. Organised in 🤝with #MoHERST & supported by #UNESCO NATCOM, the workshop is designed to strengthen transferable research & leadership skills for 2️⃣7️⃣ participants.

#NewLaunchAlert! Our @epiverse-trace.bsky.social project launched the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa, an online course designed for Africa’s cultural, linguistic & epidemiological contexts. The course is now available in English: tinyurl.com/w83aaxbh French: tinyurl.com/yyawpj29 #PublicHealth

#DidYouKnow in the 1990s #MRCG researchers have worked with local communities to conduct #ClinicalTrials assessing the RTS,S vaccine in enhancing #Malaria immunity in young children! Today, RTS,S is the world’s first approved malaria vaccine, providing life-saving protection to #EndMalaria.

Meet Our Presenters! As we gear up for the #Ecowas Lassa Fever International Conference 2025, we will be hosting this side event to share insights on the @cepi.net capacity building project aimed at strengthening epidemic preparedness & collaboration. #ELFIC2025

Kicking off the Genomic Surveillance of Malaria project in #WestAfrica, building the science & capacity needed to track malaria parasites and vectors. With support from @nihr.bsky.social, this collaboration will strengthen data sharing, research & strategies for #Malaria elimination. #EndMalaria

🌡️How is a hotter world endangering #pregnant women & their babies? In the Economist, Dr Ana Bonell @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social & Prof Debra Jackson @lshtm.bsky.social, discuss the latest research on heat & maternal health & the importance of urgent climate action👇 www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Last Saturday, volunteers from the @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social planted 92 indigenous & endangered trees in Kunjo, #Farafenni, a step towards climate action, restoration & a healthier future. Just like our #Fajara field station, we hope the Kunjo site will flourish into a thriving ecosystem.

Behind every breakthrough is a dedicated face in the lab Meet the scientists & technicians @lshtm.bsky.social & @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social working to understand 🦟 & fight malaria, dengue, Zika, & more. This #WorldMosquitoDay2025, let’s shine a light on their vital work. 👉 bit.ly/45qtn6F

#WorldMosquitoDay Spotlight Meet Harouna Soumare, an Entomology Laboratory Manager at the @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social. Harouna reminds us of the importance of prevention measures to keep #mosquitoes at bay. Read more about it here 👉 tinyurl.com/mrxy6et7 #EndMalaria

It’s #WorldMosquitoDay and we are proud to highlight a major step forward in the fight against insect-borne diseases. In 2024, @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social inaugurated an insectary in Fajara, a game-changer in research & innovation to help #EndMalaria & other mosquito-borne illnesses in #Africa.

Ahead of #WorldMosquitoDay2025, we celebrate the brilliant scientists and technicians 👩🏽‍🔬🔬 at @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social whose dedication helps us better understand mosquitoes 🦟

As part of the @epiverse-trace.bsky.social project, @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social staff with @lshtm.bsky.social are facilitating a two-week training at MRC Uganda. Participants are learning advanced outbreak analytics tools to strengthen real-time monitoring, analysis & response to health emergencies.

In 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣, @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social completed a study on the ETVAX vaccine. The goal was to see if the vaccine is safe & works well in protecting children aged 6️⃣ to 1️⃣8️⃣ months in #Gambia from diarrhoea caused by a germ called ETEC (Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli). Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4suh2tz2

Join us, International Vaccine Institute & health leaders in #W/Africa as we gear up for the @ecowas.bsky.social Lassa Fever Conference 2025. We will be hosting this side event to share insights on the @cepi.net capacity building project aimed at strengthening #EpidemicPreparedness & collaboration.