Press Releases
University of Warwick’s 2024 Warwick Africa Summit: Celebrating, Collaborating, and Driving Change
The University of Warwick’s annual Warwick Africa Summit returns on the 2nd & 3rd March. A student-led conference, it is aims to foster the development of the African continent.
New research clusters of excellence increase Warwick’s collaboration across Africa
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) have announced new ‘clusters of excellence’ with partners from across Africa.
Pathogen mapped for the first time – to understand evolution and potential treatments
A parasite which has devasting impacts on agriculture and human health is the first pathogen to have its proteins located and mapped within its cells – providing clues to their function and helping to identify potential drug targets.
Foundling Museum exhibition sheds new light on Georgian Era African and Asian children
Research by a University of Warwick academic has resulted in an exhibition at the Foundling Museum, examining the history of African and Asian foundling children in the Georgian Era.
Innovative Solutions to the exploitation of health data in the global South
An international research team led by Prof Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School has been awarded €1.4 million to examine how to better regulate the collection and migration of health data of people in the global South in order to protect privacy and prevent exploitation of their personal information.
New health economic framework to help assess what might be required to eliminate African sleeping sickness by 2030
Several diseases have been earmarked for elimination or eradication based on factors such as feasibility, lives saved and the possibility of long-run cost-savings. The cost of elimination strategies, however, can become very high as you approach zero transmission. An international group of researchers have created a new health economic framework that supports decision makers and funders in understanding the resources required to achieve the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal of eliminating sleeping sickness by 2030.