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The SAMRC President and CEO and the GIPD • A ONE HEALTH Plenary with a progressive
Precision Medicine Programme Manager, co- discussion on the nexus of climate change and
developed and participated in several core plenaries health to address non-communicable diseases
at the Science Summit of the United Nations General and outlining a model to develop Personalised
Assembly UNGA79 which took place in New York, Medicine for low- and middle-income countries
USA, in September 2024. Presentations from the • Round table discussion on the UN AI Report
SAMRC included: featuring Governing AI for Humanity: The

• The role of African science leadership to advance Implication for Health Research
sustainable development in Africa • Advancing Health Outcomes in Africa:
• How Science and AI can be used to enable Black Implementing Genomics and Health Security in
economic development globally Africa
• A roundtable on “Certifying Primary Maternal
Health Clinicians in Point-of-Care Ultrasound
(POCUS) to Reduce Maternal Mortality by 2030.”

The SAMRC President & CEO and SAMRC Senior Programme Manager for Precision Medicine presented
in-person at several sessions at the Science Summit of the UNGA79 in September 2024.

The EU-Africa PerMed Consortium: Building links between Africa and Europe in Personalised Medicine (PM).
Partners engaged in the 3 Stakeholder Workshop in Dakar Senegal in June 2024. The outcome of the workshop
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was the validation of a PM Action Plan and the Launch of the Dakar Declaration to advance the policy agenda in
developing the field of PM on the African Continent. The SAMRC Programme manager and project coordinator
in precision medicine participated in this large African-European stakeholder event.

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