Monrovia – The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) will have Nana Oye Akuffo from the Noguchi Medical Research Institute (NMIMR) at the University of Ghana as her guest on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 to conduct a workshop and feasibility study for developing an office of research support (ORS) as a critical aspect of generating grants for the institute.
Nana Oyo Akuffo is the Coordinator for Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) at NMIMR, Ghana. The NMIMR conducts both laboratory and field-based research into communicable and non-communicable diseases of public health importance; led by researchers in the nine departments of the institute. They include, Animal Experimentation, Bacteriology, Clinical Pathology, Electron Microscopy and Histopathology, Epidemiology, Immunology, Nutrition Parasitology, and Virology.
According to a press release, the NMIMR was establishment in 1979 and named in honor of the renowned Japanese scientist, Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. Since its establishment, NMIMR has gained global recognition as a leading biomedical research institute in Africa, building capacity for prevention and control of endemic diseases, as well as emerging and re-emerging diseases, in Ghana and the West African sub-region.
The NMIMR Office for Research Support (ORS) provides pre and post awards administrative services for projects and helps to ensure the overall effective coordination of the research administration, system, policies and processes. The Office serves as a bridge between the sponsor and the Principal Investigator.
The ORS also assists in establishing collaborations with international agencies such as Bill and Melinda gates (B&MG) foundation, NIH, CDC, DANIDA, Wellcome Trust, WHO/TDR, Morehouse School of Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Grand Challenges, UNDP, EDCTP, USAID, Loyola University, University of Michigan, and JICA etc.
Nana Oye is willing to support the ideal in establishing an ORS at the National Public Health Institute of Liberia which will launch us into a different phase of research in Liberia.
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