doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.03042.
Barriers to global engagement for African researchers: A position paper from the Alliance for Medical Research in Africa (AMedRA)
Bamba Gaye
1
2
3
, Nzechukwu Michael Isiozor
1
4
, Gurbinder Singh
1
, Ngone Diaba Gaye
1
5
, Mame Madjiguene Ka
1
6
, Daouda Seck
1
7
, Khadidiatou Gueye
1
8
, David Lagoro Kitara
1
9
, Camille Lassale
1
10
11
12
, Anne Malick
1
13
, Mor Diaw
1
2
, Sidy M Seck
1
14
, Abdourahmane Sow
7
, Magaye Gaye
1
15
, Abdou Salam Fall
16
, Aïda Diongue
1
17
, Ibrahima Seck
18
, Jamal Belkhadir
1
19
, Issa Wone
20
, Serigne Magueye Gueye
15
, Papa Salif Sow
21
, Jamal Eddine Kohen
1
22
, Dorothea Vogelsang
23
, Maïmouna Ndour Mbaye
1
24
, Elisabeth Alice Liyong
1
25
, André Pascal Kengne
26
, Roberta Lamptey
27
, Ndeye Marième Sougou
18
, Eugène Sobngwi
28
, Awa Ba
1
29
, John Tukakira
30
, Thiess Lorenz
31
, Elise G Kabore
1
32
, Malaizyo Gabriel Muzumala
1
33
, Ahmed Olanrewaju
1
34
, Lamin Es Jaiteh
35
, Lucrèce M Delicat-Loembet
36
37
, Aimée Olivat Rakoto Alson
1
38
, Khadim Niang
39
, Ciira Wa Maina
40
, Ernest Mwebaze
41
, Joyce Nabende
42
, Dina Machuve
43
, Prestone Adie
44
, Fatoumata Hanne
20
, Roger Tine
45
, Marième Sougou
1
45
, Kouassi Gustave Koffi
46
, Lameck Luwanda
47
, Elisabeth Lilian Pia Sattler
1
48
, Demeke Mekonnen
1
49
, Fatma Ebeid
1
50
, Jean Paul Enama
51
, Mohamadi Zeba
52
53
, Fernand Guedou
54
, Pascal Mbelesso
55
56
, Jennifer Carter
57
58
, Bakary Coulibaly
59
, Mohamed Lamine Drame
60
, Alain Mouanga
55
61
, Pierre Marie Preux
55
62
, Philippe Lacroix
55
62
, Mouhamadou Diagana
55
63
, Didier Koumavi Ekouevi
55
64
, Dismand Houinato
54
55
, Adama Faye
45
, Vivien Wambugu
1
65
, Jean Kamaté
1
66
, Mathias Lalika
1
67
, Elaine Nsoesie
68
, Boni Maxime Ale
69
70
71
, Ibrahima Socé Fall
1
72
, Abdoulaye Samb
1
2
, Léon Tshilolo
1
73
74
, Modou Jobe
1
75
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 Alliance for Medical Research in Africa (AMedRA).
- 2 Department of Physiology, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 3 Biomedical Informatics, Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- 4 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- 5 Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Ibra Mamadou Wane Medical Center, Dakar, Senegal.
- 6 Department of Cardiology, Principal Hospital of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 7 Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 8 Fann National University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
- 9 Gulu University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Gulu, Uganda.
- 10 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
- 11 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
- 12 CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.
- 13 Ministry of Health and Social Action, Dakar, Senegal.
- 14 Faculty of Health Sciences, University Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
- 15 Surgery & Surgical Specialties Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 16 Laboratoire des Transformations Économiques et Sociales, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
- 17 Senegalese National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM), Dakar, Senegal.
- 18 Department of Public Health, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
- 19 Moroccan League for the Fight Against Diabetes, Rabat, Morocco.
- 20 Département des Sciences de la Santé, Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Ziguinchor, Sénégal.
- 21 Department of Infectious Diseases, Fann National University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
- 22 Universite Abulcasis (Cheikh Zaid), Rabat, Morocco.
- 23 Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 24 Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 25 Likak Research, Dakar, Senegal.
- 26 Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 27 Family Medicine Department, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
- 28 Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon.
- 29 Laboratoire de physiologie, département de médecine, UFR Santé et Développement Durable, Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Bambey, Sénégal.
- 30 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 31 Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
- 32 Department of Cardiology, CHU Yalgado Ouedraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 33 The University of Zambia, Department of Computer Science, University of Zambia Datalab and Enterprise Medical Imaging in Zambia Project, Lusaka, Zambia.
- 34 University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- 35 Department of Surgery, Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, Banjul, Gambia.
- 36 Department of Biology, University of Sciences and Technology of Masuku, Franceville, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
- 37 NGO Sickle Cell Disease Organization of Gabon (SCDOGa), Franceville, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
- 38 Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona University Hospital Center (JRA UHC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
- 39 UFR-2S, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
- 40 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya.
- 41 College of Computing & Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- 42 Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- 43 Schools of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.
- 44 ENGIE Energy Access.
- 45 Institut de Santé et Développement (ISED), Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
- 46 Clinical Hematology Unit, CHU de Yopougon, BP 3709 Abidjan 08, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 47 Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Manyara, Haydom, Tanzania.
- 48 Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
- 49 Medical Research Lounge Trading PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 50 Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University Research Institute-Clinical Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.
- 51 Humanity First, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
- 52 International Research Laboratory Environnement, Santé Et Sociétés (IRL 3189, ESS), CNRST/CNRS/UCAD/UGB/USTTB, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 53 Laboratoire de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses Et Parasitaires (LR/MIP), Institut de Recherche en Sciences de La Santé (IRSS/CNRST), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 54 Laboratory of Chronic and Neurologic Diseases Epidemiology, LEMACEN, Doctoral School of Health Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin.
- 55 EMAC-AOC Group (Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases - Central and Western Africa).
- 56 Department of Neurology, Amitié Hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic.
- 57 Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 58 Health Data Research UK, University of Oxford (HDRUK-Oxford), Oxford, UK.
- 59 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Appliquée, Bamako, Mali.
- 60 Health Policy and Health System Expert, International Consultant, Port Moresby, Guinea.
- 61 Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Congo.
- 62 Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France.
- 63 Département de Neurologie, CHU de Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania.
- 64 Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Département de Santé Publique, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo.
- 65 Duke University, Durham, USA; Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
- 66 AGCS PLUS, Advocacy Officer, Dakar, Senegal.
- 67 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
- 68 Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 69 Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 70 Holo Global Health Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 71 School of Public Health, MOI University, Eldoret, Kenya.
- 72 Department of Health Emergency Interventions, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 73 Institut de Recherche Biomédicale, CEFA-Monkole, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 74 Département de Pédiatrie, Université Officielle de Mbujimayi (UOM), Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 75 Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Serrekunda, Gambia.
- PMID: 39421942
- PMCID: PMC11487463
- DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.03042
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Bamba Gaye
1
2
3
, Nzechukwu Michael Isiozor
1
4
, Gurbinder Singh
1
, Ngone Diaba Gaye
1
5
, Mame Madjiguene Ka
1
6
, Daouda Seck
1
7
, Khadidiatou Gueye
1
8
, David Lagoro Kitara
1
9
, Camille Lassale
1
10
11
12
, Anne Malick
1
13
, Mor Diaw
1
2
, Sidy M Seck
1
14
, Abdourahmane Sow
7
, Magaye Gaye
1
15
, Abdou Salam Fall
16
, Aïda Diongue
1
17
, Ibrahima Seck
18
, Jamal Belkhadir
1
19
, Issa Wone
20
, Serigne Magueye Gueye
15
, Papa Salif Sow
21
, Jamal Eddine Kohen
1
22
, Dorothea Vogelsang
23
, Maïmouna Ndour Mbaye
1
24
, Elisabeth Alice Liyong
1
25
, André Pascal Kengne
26
, Roberta Lamptey
27
, Ndeye Marième Sougou
18
, Eugène Sobngwi
28
, Awa Ba
1
29
, John Tukakira
30
, Thiess Lorenz
31
, Elise G Kabore
1
32
, Malaizyo Gabriel Muzumala
1
33
, Ahmed Olanrewaju
1
34
, Lamin Es Jaiteh
35
, Lucrèce M Delicat-Loembet
36
37
, Aimée Olivat Rakoto Alson
1
38
, Khadim Niang
39
, Ciira Wa Maina
40
, Ernest Mwebaze
41
, Joyce Nabende
42
, Dina Machuve
43
, Prestone Adie
44
, Fatoumata Hanne
20
, Roger Tine
45
, Marième Sougou
1
45
, Kouassi Gustave Koffi
46
, Lameck Luwanda
47
, Elisabeth Lilian Pia Sattler
1
48
, Demeke Mekonnen
1
49
, Fatma Ebeid
1
50
, Jean Paul Enama
51
, Mohamadi Zeba
52
53
, Fernand Guedou
54
, Pascal Mbelesso
55
56
, Jennifer Carter
57
58
, Bakary Coulibaly
59
, Mohamed Lamine Drame
60
, Alain Mouanga
55
61
, Pierre Marie Preux
55
62
, Philippe Lacroix
55
62
, Mouhamadou Diagana
55
63
, Didier Koumavi Ekouevi
55
64
, Dismand Houinato
54
55
, Adama Faye
45
, Vivien Wambugu
1
65
, Jean Kamaté
1
66
, Mathias Lalika
1
67
, Elaine Nsoesie
68
, Boni Maxime Ale
69
70
71
, Ibrahima Socé Fall
1
72
, Abdoulaye Samb
1
2
, Léon Tshilolo
1
73
74
, Modou Jobe
1
75
Affiliations
- 1 Alliance for Medical Research in Africa (AMedRA).
- 2 Department of Physiology, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 3 Biomedical Informatics, Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- 4 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.
- 5 Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Ibra Mamadou Wane Medical Center, Dakar, Senegal.
- 6 Department of Cardiology, Principal Hospital of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 7 Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 8 Fann National University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
- 9 Gulu University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Gulu, Uganda.
- 10 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
- 11 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
- 12 CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.
- 13 Ministry of Health and Social Action, Dakar, Senegal.
- 14 Faculty of Health Sciences, University Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
- 15 Surgery & Surgical Specialties Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 16 Laboratoire des Transformations Économiques et Sociales, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
- 17 Senegalese National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM), Dakar, Senegal.
- 18 Department of Public Health, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
- 19 Moroccan League for the Fight Against Diabetes, Rabat, Morocco.
- 20 Département des Sciences de la Santé, Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor, Ziguinchor, Sénégal.
- 21 Department of Infectious Diseases, Fann National University Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
- 22 Universite Abulcasis (Cheikh Zaid), Rabat, Morocco.
- 23 Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 24 Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
- 25 Likak Research, Dakar, Senegal.
- 26 Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 27 Family Medicine Department, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
- 28 Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon.
- 29 Laboratoire de physiologie, département de médecine, UFR Santé et Développement Durable, Université Alioune Diop de Bambey, Bambey, Sénégal.
- 30 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 31 Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
- 32 Department of Cardiology, CHU Yalgado Ouedraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 33 The University of Zambia, Department of Computer Science, University of Zambia Datalab and Enterprise Medical Imaging in Zambia Project, Lusaka, Zambia.
- 34 University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- 35 Department of Surgery, Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, Banjul, Gambia.
- 36 Department of Biology, University of Sciences and Technology of Masuku, Franceville, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
- 37 NGO Sickle Cell Disease Organization of Gabon (SCDOGa), Franceville, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon.
- 38 Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona University Hospital Center (JRA UHC), Faculty of Medicine, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
- 39 UFR-2S, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
- 40 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya.
- 41 College of Computing & Information Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- 42 Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- 43 Schools of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.
- 44 ENGIE Energy Access.
- 45 Institut de Santé et Développement (ISED), Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
- 46 Clinical Hematology Unit, CHU de Yopougon, BP 3709 Abidjan 08, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 47 Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Manyara, Haydom, Tanzania.
- 48 Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
- 49 Medical Research Lounge Trading PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 50 Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University Research Institute-Clinical Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.
- 51 Humanity First, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
- 52 International Research Laboratory Environnement, Santé Et Sociétés (IRL 3189, ESS), CNRST/CNRS/UCAD/UGB/USTTB, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 53 Laboratoire de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses Et Parasitaires (LR/MIP), Institut de Recherche en Sciences de La Santé (IRSS/CNRST), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- 54 Laboratory of Chronic and Neurologic Diseases Epidemiology, LEMACEN, Doctoral School of Health Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin.
- 55 EMAC-AOC Group (Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases - Central and Western Africa).
- 56 Department of Neurology, Amitié Hospital, Bangui, Central African Republic.
- 57 Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 58 Health Data Research UK, University of Oxford (HDRUK-Oxford), Oxford, UK.
- 59 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Appliquée, Bamako, Mali.
- 60 Health Policy and Health System Expert, International Consultant, Port Moresby, Guinea.
- 61 Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Congo.
- 62 Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France.
- 63 Département de Neurologie, CHU de Nouakchott, Nouakchott, Mauritania.
- 64 Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Département de Santé Publique, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo.
- 65 Duke University, Durham, USA; Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
- 66 AGCS PLUS, Advocacy Officer, Dakar, Senegal.
- 67 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
- 68 Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 69 Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 70 Holo Global Health Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 71 School of Public Health, MOI University, Eldoret, Kenya.
- 72 Department of Health Emergency Interventions, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 73 Institut de Recherche Biomédicale, CEFA-Monkole, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 74 Département de Pédiatrie, Université Officielle de Mbujimayi (UOM), Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 75 Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Serrekunda, Gambia.
- PMID: 39421942
- PMCID: PMC11487463
- DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.03042
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