Skills training, hands-on experience and certification |
Post-graduate
training programs e.g., a Masters in Pharmacometrics. These will need
contextualization to Africa-Uganda healthcare needs and should use a
combination of available and affordable state-of-the-art distance
learning pedagogy as popularized by Coursera
(https://www.coursera.org/) and traditional classroom
teaching. |
Accessibility of high-quality, locally generated datasets via online
repositories and collections |
Adoption of standards to support best
practices in making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and
Reusable (FAIR) |
Clinical trials capacity |
Increasing academic-industry collaboration to
enable earlier phase clinical trials in diseases affecting African
populations |
Infrastructure and environment
|
Develop an accessible network of peers and mentors for scientific
collaboration including soft skills, mentorship, coaching etc.
Provide access to high-speed computing clusters with relevant software
for data analysis and simulation including software, hardware, bandwidth
etc.
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Advocacy and translation to benefit healthcare |
Funding agencies should
recognize the high benefit vs. smaller relative investment inherent in
pharmacometrics research vs. the laboratory-based sciences. The need for
us to advocate, educate and empower. This should ultimately translate
into national and local treatment guidelines, algorithms, and standards
of care. |
Stronger Industry partnerships most especially in PBPK
|
The priority of PBPK research, of industry investment for earlier phase
trials and internships that could be in both directions.
Adoption of standards for the transparent reporting and data sharing
from existing work and where such standards might not exist, to define
them
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