Context
As part of its capacity building activities, WANECAM 2 initiated a workshop for its PhDs students and extended to all MRTC-Parasito PhDs to review their thesis work. This in order to better formalize their supervision and enhance the quality of human resources trained locally at MRTC-Parasito.
Objectives
This activity took place from 19 to 20 September 2022 in the bioinformatics training room of DELGEME in the presence of Pr. Abdoulaye Djimdé, Director of MRTC-Parasito and Coordinator of WANECAM 2, and all the principal investigators of MRTC-Parasito who are also supervising the PhD students.
The main objectives were:
to share the progress of the Dissertations with the Scientific Leadership of MRTC-Parasito;
- to make preliminary corrections to their PhD research;
- to provide communication training to improve presentation skills;
- Set-up a local Thesis Committee of 2 supervisors in addition to the Thesis
Director to support the PhD student during the semester.
All presentations focused on malaria control strategies, including:
- establishing means to monitor genetic mutations of malaria;
- proposals for the implementation of malaria control tools;
- treatment protocol for uncomplicated malaria.
Presenters were given 15 minutes to present their work and 10 minutes for questions and answers.
The format of the workshop was hybrid: 30 people attended face-to-face, 30 were following the work online (ZOOM) and 21 PhD students made an oral presentation. The workshop closed with words of encouragement and congratulations from the WANECAM 2 Coordinator to the supervisors and PhD students. A follow-up meeting has been set in 6 months for updates on the research work.
