Title: “COVID-19 Outbreak in Africa: What You Need to Know and How to Stay Safe"

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Wednesday, 8 April 2020
9:00-10:00 am US Eastern Time,
1:00-2:00 pm Accra; 2:00-3:00pm Kinshasa/Brazzaville.
3:00-4:00 pm Johannesburg/Harare/Lubumbashi; 4:00-5:00 pm Kampala/Nairobi

Facilitators/Moderators:
Jean B. Nachega, MD, PhD, MPH (Professor, AFREhealth/Stellenbosch Univ)
Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH (Professor, CUGH/Vanderbilt Univ)

Speakers/Panelists:
COVID-19 Response in Africa: Lessons from Ebola and Beyond (20 min)
Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tam-Fum, MD, PhD
Director, National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB);
Professor of Medical Virology/Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Congo

The COVID-19 in Africa: An urgent need to relook at the training of the African health workforce (10 min)
Michael J. Reid, MD
Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA

Panel Discussion/Q & A from the Audience (30 min) 

Partially Supported by NIH-Fogarty Grant No. 1R25TW011217-01
African Association for Health Professions Education and Research

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The African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) is an interprofessional health grouping that seeks to work all stakeholders interested in health profession education , research and service delivery to improve the quality of health care in Africa through research, education and capacity building. It is a conglomerate of individuals, institutions, associations and networks from all the geographic and linguistic regions of Africa namely Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone and Arabophone. Read More...

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