It has been an exciting journey of professional growth and development with the AFREhealth community. In addition to the communities of practice and collaborative networks that we have built with other AFREhealth members, I, personally have had the opportunity of being mentored by senior academics whom I met at the AFREhealth symposia. e mentorship and support I have received is enabling me to grow my research and professional career path. I am looking forward to the launch of the AFREhealth Learning Management system and I am privileged to be part of the working team who are working on rolling this out later this year. AFREhealth is indeed an emerging organization committed to strengthening research and education in health for the entire African continent.

Dr Nisha Nadesan-Reddy,
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa