INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
fewest resources, yet the world relies on them to stop the next pandemic.
Meet eight Africa-based scientists and doctors using cutting-edge
genomic tools, data-sharing platforms and shoe-leather epidemiology to identify, track, and counter the spread of emerging pathogens on a
mpox-causing monkeypox virus spreading in central Africa is the latest scourge to set off a global health emergency, but climate change,
urbanization, deforestation, and intensive livestock production are accelerating the emergence of contagious threats
contributed to local and global knowledge of reemerging respiratory and mosquito transmitted viruses
This has prioritized the development of diagnostics and vaccines on the continent.
Using genomic-based techniques, scientists can screen
pressing health threats, Venter says
Rift Valley fever viruses
way to an appreciation of the unique skill set that exists in Africa, especially as donors and philanthropic organizations focus more on
veterinarian and epidemiologist at the Zambia National Public Health Institute, studying the intersection of human, animal, plant, and
environmental conditions that gives rise to new microbial threats.
Hamoonga says Covid highlighted the disparities that exist across the
globe and the ingenuity of under-resourced African medical teams who created novel ways to deliver care at home when faced with a lack of
facilities to isolate coronavirus patients
Diseases, where she studies viruses, like Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, that circulate in animals and cause disease when they spillover
and infect humans.
The spread of SARS-CoV-2 highlighted the importance of global collaboration, she says
Sigal, scientists at the Africa Health Research Institute, who are conducting immunologic studies to better understand the burden of
