Applications

Many African countries are using the development of their Pharma industry as a route to economic development. Attention to animal welfare and care, and experimental design is critical in ensuring that these animal studies translate into clinical practice. However, Africa has an extreme shortage of individuals with the knowledge and skills to care for and use research animals. This deficit is a Grand Challenge in itself, hindering the ability of Africa to undertake world-leading research to address its specific health challenges. Opportunities for education and training in research animal sciences across the continent are extremely fragmented and restricted to specific countries. Animal ethics committees are in their infancy or non-existent. There have been limited interventions, led principally by the applicants, to address this knowledge and skills Grand Challenge. However, such training modalities can’t cover long term lagged need of the community and professionals. Therefore, setting up online training for Ethiopian as well as African scientists and biomedical graduate students has a paramount role to improve biomedical research and an ethical review process and to give proper attention to animal welfare.

The Project, a two (2) - full and half days intensive highly integrated Workshop is aimed to “Raising the Bar on the number of Africans skilled in humane animal care and use for scientific purposes”, who are expected to return to their Institutions and put into practice the knowledge and skills acquired from the training, while training others and promoting the same principles. The program will comprise didactic seminars, content and plenary sessions with interactive role play and networking between participants and the Instructional experts from within and outside Africa, invited by ACURET.ORG. A one-day Pre-Workshop Lab Animal Medicine [LAM] Summit, will prelude the training workshop. This is open to Veterinarians from across Africa, for and by Veterinarians who are interested in lab animal medicine as a discipline, course and specialty to promote humane animal care and use for scientific purposes in developing countries.