The East African Health and Scientific Conference (EAHSC) is an EAC biennial event convened in East Africa by the EAHRC in collaboration with a host EAC Partner State. Hosting of the event is rotational to each of the Partner States and coordinated through the ministries responsible for EAC affairs, ministries responsible for health and others and it is done in close collaboration with regional and international health-related NGO's, civil society, individuals and stakeholders. The EAHSC contributes towards strengthening regional cooperation in health.
Jobs and Announcements
10th East African Health and Scientific Conference (EAHSC)
24th - 26th April 2025, Juba South Sudan
Africa Healthtech Summit
African Union, 13-15 October, 2025
The Africa HealthTech Summit brings together Ministers of Health and ICT, National Public Health Institutes, Regulators, leading Tech Innovators, Healthcare Professionals, Development Partners, Investors and Academia, to explore how emerging technologies can be harnessed to build resilience and improve health systems and individual wellbeing across African communities. The Summit focuses on critical questions such as realizing the potential of technology innovations to tackle Africa’s most pressing health challenges. Further information will be available closer to the date
Call for abstracts: South African Health Review 2025
Deadline 31 March 2025
The South African Health Review (SAHR) invites submissions for its 2025 edition 'Learning health systems: bridging knowledge and practice'. This edition seeks to explore successful health systems reform experiences within the country and draw from good practices and exemplary implementation across the provinces. The 2025 edition aims to identify practical ways to enhance specific aspects of the health system in the short term, while aligning with the broader reforms needed to achieve universal health coverage. The South African Health Review is a peer-reviewed publication accredited with the Department of Higher Education and Training, and published by Health Systems Trust. The aims of the SAHR are to advance the sharing of the knowledge, feature critical commentary on policy implementation, and offer empirical studies for improving South Africa's health system.
Tribute to Professor Charles Ngwenya
EQUINET Steering committee
EQUINET extends our collective condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Charles Ngwena, a tireless and persistent defender of human rights, particularly from an Afrocentric perspective of law. Professor Ngwena, a native of Zimbabwe but a global scholar, did ground-breaking work in the application of Socio-economic rights in a African context, and particularly focused on disability rights and sexual and reproductive health rights, helping EQUINET develop its early thinking about the relationship between Health Equity and Human Rights. He died in South Africa on 1st Feb and will be sorely missed by our community.
European University Institute call for applicants for Policy Leaders Fellowship
Call closes 24 January 2025
The Policy Leader Fellowship (PLF) at the EUI's Florence School of Transnational Governance (Florence STG), part of the European University Institute (EUI), is a residential programme designed for professionals who aspire to make a meaningful impact in the world of policymaking. With participants hailing from diverse backgrounds such as politics, civil service, media, and non-governmental organisations, the fellowship offers a unique platform for collaboration, innovation, and lasting change.The fellows spend five to ten months at the school’s headquarters in Florence, Italy developing policy recommendations and practical solutions for the most pressing cross-border policy issues. The fellowships are fully-funded for the duration of the stay.
Call for Fellows: Afya Na Haki & Litigating Reproductive Justice
Deadline for Applications: 6 September 2024
This call is for vibrant individuals from Anglophone and Francophone Africa to join the next fellowship cohort under the Litigating Reproductive Justice in Africa (LIRA) Programme. The Programme aims to foster an environment where Africa embraces Reproductive Justice through progressive, evidence-based, and collaborative litigation for access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR). The programme particularly targets building the capacities of African individuals through our renowned fellowship programme. This round of call for fellows will commence in October 2024 and it is a full-time in-person engagement for a period of 6-12 months at Ahaki. The fellowship is designed to support Ahaki’s programmes and provide opportunities for career development in research, litigation and capacity enhancement in reproductive justice. Ahaki encourages researchers, scholars, litigants, activists, and practitioners from across Africa to apply for the fellowship programme.
Call for papers - Mental health of adolescents
BMC Public Health. Closing date: 7 March 2025
BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to a Collection on mental health of adolescents. Adolescence is a critical developmental stage marked by significant physical and emotional changes, with mental health being heavily influenced by societal pressures, academic demands, and technology. Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders among adolescents pose a global concern, affecting both immediate quality of life and long-term well-being. Addressing these issues is essential for fostering healthy development and preventing future psychosocial challenges. This collection seeks submissions that explore factors influencing adolescent mental health, such as trends in mental health disorders, risk and protective factors, the impact of digital platforms, school environments, family relationships, barriers to accessing mental health services, and effective intervention strategies.
Call for Participation in ICID’s Ubuntu Community Village
International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), Johannesburg, 3-6 December 2024
The ICID Ubuntu Community Village (UCV) will be a lively, interesting space that will bring together youth, community members, midwives and other health professionals, Civil Society Organizations, and others working on and impacted by AMR, HIV, TB, or other infectious diseases within a One Health context to interact, learn, share, make new connections, strengthen existing networks and celebrate successes. The UCV will also act as a bridge between the more technical scientific sessions at the ICID 2024 and the community action, by sharing the issues in a manner that is more lucid, relevant, and easily translatable/applicable at the grassroots. There will be a mix of live performances, documentaries/films, music, art, dance, skills building and best practice sharing workshops, speaker sessions/presentations, debates, and other exciting cultural activities, all based on feedback and applications from the diversity of community-connected individuals, groups, and organizations. Key proceedings from the UCV will also be captured and shared on various ISID platforms. Are you a community-connected individual, group, or organization working on and impacted by AMR, HIV, TB, or other infectious diseases within a One Health context? Apply if you would like to participate or present at the ICID Ubuntu Community Village.
Former Gold Mineworkers And Their Families Encourged To Lodge Compensation Claims For Silicosis And TB
Tshiamiso Trust: South Africa, 2024
The Tshiamiso Trust is on a drive to ensure that all potentially eligible former gold mineworkers and their families, know about their right to lodge a claim for compensation, and are given the opportunity to do so. The Tshiamiso Trust was established in 2020 to give effect to the settlement agreement reached between six mining companies and claimant attorneys in the historic silicosis and TB class action. The companies are African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American South Africa, AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony Gold, Sibanye Stillwater and Gold Fields. To date, the Trust has compensated over 18,000 beneficiaries, to the value of South African Rand 1.67 billion. The Trust is committed to ensuring that all eligible ex-mineworkers and their families get the compensation they deserve, and appeals your assistance in reaching potential claimants. To lodge a claim: Mineworkers must have carried out risk work at one of the qualifying gold mines during the qualifying periods between 12 March 1965 and 10 December 2019. Living mineworkers must have permanent lung impairment from silicosis or TB that they contracted while doing risk work at these mines. For deceased mineworkers, there must either be evidence that they died from work-related TB within a year of leaving the mine if it's a TB claim, or evidence that they had silicosis or died from silicosis if it's a silicosis claim. For more information and to check eligibility, contact the Trust. Claimants are reminded to be careful of people impersonating the Trust or promising to help speed up their claims. Only the Tshiamiso Trust can process claims in a free service. Claimants must only share their documents with the officials at the lodgement offices and should not pay anyone to help them with their claims.
Special Issue: Food, Diet, and Nutrition: Connecting Underlying Determinants of Health in the 21st Century
Call for papers. Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025
Nutritional well-being is the product of a complex interplay of factors that directly or indirectly affect what people consume and how their bodies break down and utilize it. Equating malnutrition with hunger changed as evidence grew that underweight and obesity could co-exist in individuals and households and the double burden of malnutrition emerged. This special issue aims to highlight Food, Diet, and Nutrition at the intersection of multiple determinants of health; namely, climate and environmental changes that affect food production and distribution; commercial interests that drive food manufacturing, processing, distribution, and marketing; economic, social, and cultural determinants of households’ and individuals’ consumption choices based on affordability, palatability, and social status perceptions; and the psychosocial realities that influence feeding and dietary habits in the 21st century. It draws contributions and learning from work on how these determinants and environments can be tackled, from interventions on the more immediate conditions that shape food systems to the deeper policy, legal, economic, and other structural interventions that control harmful conditions or that promote healthy food systems. Authors are invited to submit abstracts and full papers as outlined in more detail in the website.