Sharing from @pentafoundation.bsky.social: the Brighter Future Award honours champions of maternal & child health.

🏆 €5,000 prize
🎓 Storytelling bootcamp
✈️ Trip to Italy

📅 Apply by 31 Oct 2025

🔗 penta-id.org/bfa

🤝🏽 Collaboration in action!

Members of our #ComBacAfrica consortium recently held a stakeholder workshop to strengthen collaboration in the fight against #AMR and prepare for the project’s next phase in Côte d’Ivoire.

Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/5ytyrmjk

@globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social

Join us at the @sciencebusiness.net conference 'Healthy competition: Can Europe regain its global edge in life sciences?'

📆 Thursday, 16 October, 11:00-11:45
📍 Brussels and online

Register: sciencebusiness.net/events/healt...

The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪

Here you will find:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources

#ScienceReadForSunday: Fixed-dose ivermectin for Mass Drug Administration: Is it time to leave the dose pole behind? Insights from an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Nominations are now open for the second edition of the Penta Brighter Future Award (BFA), a biennial international award that celebrates inspiring contributions to maternal and child health worldwide.

👉 Submit your nomination: penta-id.org/bfa

🆕 Apply: SAHRI Fellowship (Global Health EDCTP3-funded)

Fully funded 3-year programme for 12 mid-career African researchers.

⏰ Deadline: 1 Feb 2026

Apply now: t.co/ErYavfi4bw

Ghana launches Coartem® Baby – the first #malaria medicine for newborns & infants – as momentum continues to build across Africa.

🌍 8 more countries are set to approve soon. bit.ly/4mPN8da

💫SkincAIr according to us💫
We meet some of the people behind SkincAIr and discover what makes the project so special.

Today we present Alemtsehay Getachew, dermatologist, physician and researcher at Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI).

Watch her interview⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcn...

💡 #WhatIsGlobalHealthEDCTP3?

Take ODIN: using wastewater genomic surveillance to fight infectious diseases & antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa while training experts & building local capacity. 🌍

At #ScienceSummit #UNGA80, we chaired 'Partnering through Science: Africa–Europe Cooperation for Health #Security in a Changing #Climate.'

We also met key figures from Novo Nordisk and Novartis and are excited to turn these insights into action!

Meet Jose Sumban, the force ensuring the SUPPORT project research is high-quality and reliable!

He coordinates crucial lab efforts against multidrug-resistant infections in children living with HIV & drives key South-to-South collaborations.

Learn more: www.supportproject.eu

✅ A new milestone in the #MARCSEAfrica work on strengthening regional collaboration in the fight against #AntimalarialDrugResistance.

Read about the recent policy forum that brought together key stakeholders from East and Southern Africa➡️ tinyurl.com/4af23ene

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Welcome!

We look forward to exchanging exciting scientific breakthroughs with you.

Do you have an #AI or #DataScience project transforming health research in #Gambia? This is your chance to showcase it!

Submit your poster today & be part of the future of innovation!

Register here 👉 tinyurl.com/4ejrrh6f & send your posters to [email protected]

#DataScienceAwarenessMonth

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🚨New project publication🚨

In a new study, our @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social -funded #GenPathAfrica consortium traced Malawi’s 2022–2023 cholera outbreak to bacteria from Pakistan - showing how travel and climate-driven floods can fuel epidemics.

Read more👉 tinyurl.com/mvr58dwv

✋ How do you stop a fast-moving #mpox outbreak?

Thanks to our emergency #funding mechanism, the MBOTE-SK project launched in record time, building on lessons from the earlier MBOTE-Maniema project

More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...

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📢 Join us for IHI's brokerage event: 4-5 Nov in Brussels!
⚡ This is the perfect opportunity to network, brainstorm and share ideas for potential proposals for call 12.
💡 Find out more: lnkd.in/ev3y2ens
#IHITransformingHealth #BoldCollaborations #HealthResearch #HealthInnovation #EUResearch

We are in Hamburg for the 14th #ECTMIH!

🎤 Today - keynote lecture on digital innovations, behavioural research and implementation.

🔬 On Wednesday - 'Diagnostic innovation for infectious threats', with EDCTP-funded projects results

👩🏾‍🔬 We are sponsoring six researchers.

How to translate opportunity into action, ensuring #African communities are meaningfully #included in clinical research?

This new report by @accesstomedicinefoundation.org shows that change is possible.

🔗 Read the report: accesstomedicinefoundation.org/access-insig...

✨ ComBac-Africa at #UNGA80 Science Summit 2025!

In a session hosted by @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social, the #ComBacAfrica project shared its mission to fight #AMR by strengthening diagnostics, access to antibiotics & driving innovation through global partnerships.

Read more➡️ tinyurl.com/58xvpyh9

Global Health EDCTP3 endorses the @who.int Joint statement on strengthening clinical trials #CT 2025

This collective effort reinforces the WHO Guidance for Best Practices for #CT as the global benchmark for impactful and ethical studies.

More: www.global-health-edctp3.europa.eu/news-and-eve...

1 dollar in, 7 dollars out: the power of Global Health R&D and how it benefits everyone.

When high-income countries invest in global health research, the impact goes far beyond saving lives.

🔗 Explore the @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social report: www.impactglobalhealth.org/insights/rep...