Zambart hosted the Inaugural Annual Meeting of The Southern Africa Research Capacity Network (SOFAR) from 6-7 November 2025 in Lusaka, Zambia.
The SOFAR Network is a collaborative initiative aimed at developing skilled, innovative, and resilient African researchers to address significant health challenges, particularly infectious diseases. This program is designed to bridge training gaps and enhance research capacity across Africa, focusing on equitable partnerships and interdisciplinary research.
The 2-day event brought together 38 participants including the fifteen SOFAR MSc, PhD and Post Doc fellows, their supervisors and mentors, as well as the program administrators who all took part in activities that included mental health training, equitable partnerships, supervisor training, safeguarding & moral distress training and community engagement as well as career trajectory and implementation science network for the fellows only.
The PhD and MSc fellows presented their research projects which were the highlight of the meeting.
The Fellows also had an opportunity to visit the University Teaching Hospital where they met with the Project ECHO Team at the Institute of Digital Health. They later visited Zambart House where they were introduced to some of Zambart’s current studies and later toured the laboratories which comprises a Biosafety Level 3 TB laboratory, a Genomic Sequencing laboratory (AMPHEUS), and a Serology and Immunology laboratory.
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