Governance

Our governance structure ensures a smooth running of the Program by an Executive arm with oversight from two advisory bodies. This is designed to help the project stay on track in delivering while decisions are well informed and unbiased. The oversight bodies include a Scientific and Training Advisory Board (STAB) of up to 7 members, who are experts and respected leaders in our fields of interest but external to the Institutional Partners and the Programme Management Board (PMB) which will include the Principal Investigators of the PDNA.

The Executive Board (EB) includes the Program Director, the Project Officer and the Administration. The final layer includes our 5 Strategic Hubs i.e. i)Training Hub led by USAMRU - Kenya and the MRC Gambia; ii) Research Management Hub led by NMIMR, Ghana; iii) Strategic Leadership and Scientific Citizenship hub led by MRTC, Gabon and NIMR, Tanzania ; iv)Technical support hub, which includes one co-applicant (BNI, Germany) and one strategic collaborator (Kwiatkowski group, Oxford-Sanger, UK).