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› Innovative Financing and Partnerships for Africa and Europe. Incorporating African countries
Sustainable STI Development in Africa in the global PM agenda can contribute to reducing
existing health disparities between developed and
› Investing in Health Research Capacity for
Sustainable Development developing countries, as well as facilitating access
of African countries to new tools and technologies
› The SA 110K Human Genome Programme: Building that have the potential to make healthcare more
a Converged Model for Data-Driven Health efficient and equitable. To advance this objective,
Investment in Africa the project organised an ICPerMed engagement

› Prioritising Financing for Food Systems meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on the 10-11 June 2025,
Transformation hosted by the Kenyan National Commission for
Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI).
The Europe- Africa Personalised Medicine Representatives of African Ministries of Health
(EU-Africa PerMed) Consortium
and research funding organisations from Ethiopia,
EU-Africa PerMed (www.euafrica-permed.eu) is an Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania and
international coordinated support action project Uganda, together with ICPerMed leadership and
funded by the European Commission Horizon members from Estonia, Tunisia, France and South
2020 framework programme. The project has the Africa, joined the meeting. The aim of the meeting
objective of integrating African countries in the was to bring together organisations interested in
development of a global Personalised Medicine (PM) joining the ICPerMed, to discuss PM in general,
research agenda by facilitating their participation the benefits and opportunities coming from global
in the activities of the International Consortium collaborations, and the ICPerMed consortium
for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) and by specifically, and how those joint collaborations can
strengthening the collaborations in PM between support local, national and regional developments.

The EU-Africa PerMed Consortium: Building links between Africa and Europe in Personalised Medicine (PM).
Partners engaged in a joint meeting with ICPerMed in June 2025.

Grand Challenges 2025/2026, the SAMRC managed a portfolio of
South Africa Programme projects falling under the following topics: Climate
and Health; Infodemics/Public Health Data Systems;
Established in 2014, the Grand Challenges South and Artificial Intelligence.
Africa (GCSA) programme is a member of the
Global Grand Challenges partner network, which is › GC Climate and Health Portfolio: The goal of
a family of initiatives fostering innovation to address this RFA, which was launched in collaboration
key global health development priorities. During with Grand Challenges Canada, was to support

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