The 18th annual #GrandChallenges Meeting takes place this week, highlighting the biggest problems in global health and bringing together stakeholders from around the world to solve them.
Meet some of the innovators who are taking part⬇️
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Dr. Fredros Okumu is the director of Science at the Ifakara Health Institute. Since 2008 Dr. Okumu has devoted his time to studying human-mosquito interactions and accelerating current efforts to eliminate malaria.
Photo: ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Dr. Jessica E. Manning is an assistant clinical investigator at the Laboratory of Malaria & Vector Research at NiAid & Science Attaché, U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh & NIAID ICER CAMBODIA. The focus of her research is infectious disease & internal medicine.
Photo: Dr. Jessica Manning
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Iruka Okeke is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan.
She is a bacterial geneticist who researches enteric bacteria.
Photo: ©Gates Archive/Mulugeta Ayene
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Abdoulaye Djimdé is the CAMES Professor of Parasitology and Mycology and Honorary Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Djimdé is currently a Calestrous Juma fellow working on disease surveillance and genomics.
Photo: Abdoulaye Djimdé
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Isabella Oyier is an Associate Professor and Head of Bioscience at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya. She is a Calestous Juma Fellow and is working on a malaria molecular surveillance platform.
Photo: Isabella Oyier
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These local innovators are making changes in their communities. Learn more about #GrandChallenges and how innovators like these are working towards change.
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Project Innocence in Portugal is in deep need of computers to proceed with their incredible work. Would apple be able to donate 3 desktop computers? Thank you
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Innovators but they do not solve their owns problems, go back to work and solve my issue
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