An international group of experts in community engagement for health research has identified urgent measures to foster involvement of local communities in emergency research, such as the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.
The second annual ALERRT General Assembly was held in Dakar on the 19th and 20th of March.
The ALERRT launch was a great success held at the Radisson Blu hotel in Addis Ababa on the 10th and 11th of March, 2018. Click for more information.
A joint ALERRT & WHO workshop on ethics preparedness was held in Dakar, Senegal on the 20-21st of March ahead of the Global Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees, from 22-24 March 2018. Click here for more information.
(http://www.who.int/ethics/partnerships/globalsummit/en/)
ALERRT aims to reduce the public health and socio-economic impact of disease outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa by building a sustainable clinical and laboratory research preparedness and response network.
