November 20- 22, 2018 | Haggar CSI Division

Themes of the Symposium:

• Women’s Health, Children’s Health, Neonatal Morbidity, and Food and Nutrition.
• Diabetes, Renal Diseases, Cancers, and Other Non-Communicable Diseases.
• Infectious Diseases (Malaria, Water-related Diseases, Bilharziasis, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis) and Antimicrobial Resistance.

Outcomes of the Symposium:

• To define complimentary research priorities in Sudan and the UK.
• To outline potential partnership opportunities and challenges between Sudanese and UK institutions.
• To encourage peer learning and exchange of research ideas.
• To identify opportunities and challenges of networking.
• To describe how future partnerships might work and how they might be funded and sustained.
• To encourage capacity building focusing on training of technical staff, developing soft and pedagogical skills, and availing needed lab equipment; and to engage young researchers like teaching assistants and young lecturers to obtain MSc and PhD degrees.
• The research collaboration should be for the best interest of the three universities guided by the vision and mission of each university.