Deltas Africa Will Launch a new Program REACCT-CAN on March 14, 2024 in Addis Ababa

The Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation)  launched Research and Excellence in African Capacity to Control and Treat Cancer (REACCT-CAN) on 14th March 2024 in addis Ababa, Ethiopia. REACCT-CAN brings together 7 grantees from across the continent including  Wellcome Trust Research Programme.

The programme funded by Wellcome, and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in the UK is conceptualized as a health research leadership capacity-building programme integrating a major component of social sciences and humanities and climate sciences in a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to address a broad spectrum of Africa’s developmental challenges.

The programme will provide an enabling environment for the emergence of a new cohort of globally competitive African research scientists and leaders on the continent who will be trained through collaborative supervision and mentorship mostly at Masters, PhD, Post-Doctoral and Senior Research Fellows to address a broad spectrum of Africa’s health and other sustainable development challenges.