Postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD alumna of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Dr. Henrietta Mensah-Brown,  has been awarded a fellowship under the National Institutes of Health's (NIH)  African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI).

Dr. Mensah-Brown joins the second cohort under the initiative, which was established in 2019 by the NIH in partnership with the  African Academy of Sciences (AAS)  and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,  under the auspices of the Coalition of African Research and Innovation (CARI).   The APTI allows for the training of fellows in a global health research area of priority for their home institutions and countries, and the AAS, the BMGF and the NIH. The initiative also seeks to help build bridges and lasting connections between the partner organisations and African scientists and institutions.

Dr. Mensah-Brown joins nine other  postdoctoral trainees including fellow WACCBIP alumnus, Dr. Daniel Kiboi, who was a WACCBIP-DELTAS Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016 to 2019. While at WACCBIP, Dr. Kiboi worked on the validation of candidate mutations in Plasmodium for resistance to the antimalarial drugs Piperaquine and Lumefantrine.

The two follow another former WACCBIP-DELTAS Postdoctoral Fellow  Dr. Kolapo Oyebola, who was part of the first cohort of trainees under the APTI.

Further information on the APTI and this year's fellowships and the APTI can be found here.