Los Angeles County WIC Programs: Developing Infrastructure for Partnered Rese...UCLA CTSI
Los Angeles County Women, Infants and Children (LAC WIC) programs provide supplemental nutrition, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant women or women with children under age 5 who are at nutritional risk. Although LAC WIC programs are often approached with research requests, they do not have a strategic plan to vet, manage or optimize in-house research. This project will create a strategic plan that will provide guidelines and tools to facilitate research of interest to LAC WIC leaders, participants, staff and academics.
Biosciences capacity building in Africa: Lessons learned from Biosciences eas...ExternalEvents
Biosciences capacity building in Africa: Lessons learned from Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) presentation by "Helen Altshul, Biosciences eastern and central Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
"
African solutions to African problems: the role of research management tools ...Reed Elsevier
Describes SciVal as an efficient tool to find potential research collaborators on the African continent to support the ideology of African solutions to African problems.
Los Angeles County WIC Programs: Developing Infrastructure for Partnered Rese...UCLA CTSI
Los Angeles County Women, Infants and Children (LAC WIC) programs provide supplemental nutrition, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant women or women with children under age 5 who are at nutritional risk. Although LAC WIC programs are often approached with research requests, they do not have a strategic plan to vet, manage or optimize in-house research. This project will create a strategic plan that will provide guidelines and tools to facilitate research of interest to LAC WIC leaders, participants, staff and academics.
Biosciences capacity building in Africa: Lessons learned from Biosciences eas...ExternalEvents
Biosciences capacity building in Africa: Lessons learned from Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) presentation by "Helen Altshul, Biosciences eastern and central Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
"
African solutions to African problems: the role of research management tools ...Reed Elsevier
Describes SciVal as an efficient tool to find potential research collaborators on the African continent to support the ideology of African solutions to African problems.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Enhancing Scholarship in college Higher EducationSEDA
Association of Colleges. 2018. College Key Facts. [online] Available at: Association of Colleges. 2018. College Key Facts, 2017/18. [online] Available at: https://www.aoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Key%20Facts%202017-18_1.pdf
Boyer, E. 1990. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Lawrence, J. and Hall, G. In Press. Understanding the provision and perceived value of the academic and professional development practices of HE teachers in College Higher Education (CHE) in Research in Post Compulsory Education
QAA. 2013. Guidance on scholarship and the pedagogical effectiveness of staff: Expectations for Foundation Degree-awarding powers and for taught degree-awarding powers. [online] Available at: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/guidance/guidance-on-scholarship-and-pedagogical-effectiveness-jan-13.pdf?sfvrsn=e554f781_6
UCU. 2013. Scholarly activity in HE in FE – towards a better practice model. London: UCU
By Chenjerai Mabhiza, Head of User Services at the University of Namibia
17 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
CGIAR Capacity Development Framework : Engaging with PartnersCGIAR
Presented by Dr. Iddo Dror, Head of Capacity Development, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Chair, CGIAR Capacity Development Community of Practice at Celebrate FARA – Johannesburg, 27 Nov 2014
Bringing Transformational Learning and Capacity Development to Universities i...apaari
Tropical Agricultural Platform (TAP): Facilitating capacity development (CD) for agricultural innovation in the Tropics by Martina Spisiakova, Consultant, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) on behalf of TAP Partners
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) Project in th...ROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources
for Development (ROER4D) Project in the
Global South. Judith Pete & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
E-Learning Africa, Kampala, Uganda May 28-30 2014
What's in the research librarian's tool shed?Reed Elsevier
Presents an overview of the basic tools, indicators and skills used to support researchers in evaluating, managing and improving their research performance.
Developing Intra-African Collaboration among Early Career Scientists: Models ...Olawale Olayide
Being a presentation at the 9th Wet Africa Research and Innovation Management Association (WARIMA) held during 23-26 November, 2015 at the University of Legon, Ghana
Building Research Partnerships for Public Health ImpactDr. Ebele Mogo
How can collaborative research be used to drive social impact? A presentation as a panelist at the Society for Social Medicine's Early Career Researcher Workshop 2020
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Enhancing Scholarship in college Higher EducationSEDA
Association of Colleges. 2018. College Key Facts. [online] Available at: Association of Colleges. 2018. College Key Facts, 2017/18. [online] Available at: https://www.aoc.co.uk/sites/default/files/Key%20Facts%202017-18_1.pdf
Boyer, E. 1990. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Lawrence, J. and Hall, G. In Press. Understanding the provision and perceived value of the academic and professional development practices of HE teachers in College Higher Education (CHE) in Research in Post Compulsory Education
QAA. 2013. Guidance on scholarship and the pedagogical effectiveness of staff: Expectations for Foundation Degree-awarding powers and for taught degree-awarding powers. [online] Available at: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/guidance/guidance-on-scholarship-and-pedagogical-effectiveness-jan-13.pdf?sfvrsn=e554f781_6
UCU. 2013. Scholarly activity in HE in FE – towards a better practice model. London: UCU
By Chenjerai Mabhiza, Head of User Services at the University of Namibia
17 February 2017- 15:00 CET
--The webinar was held as part of ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture) Online Course for Low-Income Countries--
CGIAR Capacity Development Framework : Engaging with PartnersCGIAR
Presented by Dr. Iddo Dror, Head of Capacity Development, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Chair, CGIAR Capacity Development Community of Practice at Celebrate FARA – Johannesburg, 27 Nov 2014
Bringing Transformational Learning and Capacity Development to Universities i...apaari
Tropical Agricultural Platform (TAP): Facilitating capacity development (CD) for agricultural innovation in the Tropics by Martina Spisiakova, Consultant, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) on behalf of TAP Partners
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) Project in th...ROER4D
Research on Open Educational Resources
for Development (ROER4D) Project in the
Global South. Judith Pete & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
E-Learning Africa, Kampala, Uganda May 28-30 2014
What's in the research librarian's tool shed?Reed Elsevier
Presents an overview of the basic tools, indicators and skills used to support researchers in evaluating, managing and improving their research performance.
Developing Intra-African Collaboration among Early Career Scientists: Models ...Olawale Olayide
Being a presentation at the 9th Wet Africa Research and Innovation Management Association (WARIMA) held during 23-26 November, 2015 at the University of Legon, Ghana
Building Research Partnerships for Public Health ImpactDr. Ebele Mogo
How can collaborative research be used to drive social impact? A presentation as a panelist at the Society for Social Medicine's Early Career Researcher Workshop 2020
"Partnering for Impact: IFPRI-European Research Collaboration for Improved Food and Nutrition Security" presentation by Karen Brooks, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, on 25 November 2013 in Brussels, Belgium.
How can research partner with development partners better?africa-rising
Presented by Likawent Yehyis, Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, at the Africa RISING Program Learning Event, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5-8 February 2019
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Presentation slides for a talk on the implications of open science for research managers, discussing how they might support researchers and areas where Africa-based organisations are performing development. It was presented at the West African Research and Innovation Management Association (WARIMA) conference on January 18, 2023, which was held at MRC Gambia at LSHTM Fajara.
Presentation on behalf of the SA Weather Service presented during SA National Science Week - The harsh realities of climate change, 29 July to 2 August 2019.
Presented at a NeDICC (Network of Data and Information Curation Communities) meeting, 14 March 2019, CSIR, and at the University of Pretoria and the Carnegie Corporation of New York Capstone Conference, 24-29 March 2019, Kieviets Kroon.
Presented on 30 August 2018: Deployment of Open Data Driven Solutions for Socio-economic Value thorough Good Governance and Efficient Public Service Delivery -
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
2. Outline
• What are H3Africa & H3ABioNet?
• Role of H3ABioNet
• H3Africa/H3ABioNet policies and governance
• Successes
• What worked and what didn’t
3. H3Africa: Human Heredity & Health in Africa
• H3frica Vision: “To facilitate an Africa-based
contemporary research approach to the study of
genomics and environmental determinants of common
diseases with the goal of improving the health of African
populations”
• Building the infrastructure for genomics research
• Funding: NIH, Wellcome Trust/Alliance for Accelerating
Excellence in Science in Africa
AESA
4. H3Africa in Numbers
>$170 million of funding
48 research projects
29 African countries
>500 investigators
>75,000 research
participants
>130 publications
139 trainees/study
coordinators supported
53 workshops/courses
5. H3Africa in Numbers
>$170 million of funding
48 research projects
29 African countries
>500 investigators
>75,000 research
participants
>130 publications
139 trainees/study
coordinators supported
53 workshops/courses
Phenotype data
Genomic data
~1 PB
6. The H3Africa Consortium
14
Collaborative
Centers
13 Research
Projects
3 Pilot
Biorepositories
8 Ethics Grants
The H3Africa
Consortium
Bioinformatics
Network
4 Global Health
Bioinformatics
Training Programs
H3ABioNet
7. H3ABioNet: Informatics network
• H3ABioNet is a Pan African Informatics Network, to
provide bioinformatics infrastructure and support for the
H3Africa consortium
• Aims:
• To implement a Pan African informatics infrastructure
• To develop an H3Africa data coordinating center
• To provide high quality informatics support to
H3Africa
• To enable and enhance innovative
translational research
• To address outreach, development and
sustainability
28 partners in 17 countries:
www.h3abionet.org
8. Role of H3ABioNet
• H3ABioNet supports H3Africa research projects by:
• Building relevant skills for data analysis and interpretation
• Ensuring access to the computing infrastructure for moving, storing and
analysing data
• Developing containerized workflows to make data analysis easy, consistent
and reproducible
• Providing support for data analysis using existing or developing new
algorithms
• Preparing their data for submission to the EGA/ENA
• Ensuring data is FAIR, promoting open science (panels, WGs)
• For the H3Africa consortium H3ABioNet has:
• Developed a participant recruitment database
• Developed a trainer/trainee tracking database
• Worked with the PHWG to harmonize H3Africa data, map it to ontologies
and make it FAIR
• Developed an H3Africa catalogue to enable searching of the H3Africa data
and biospecimens for the public to request access
Aim is to enable genomics research in Africa
9. H3Africa governance
• All funding applications required letter of support
from institution and government
• All projects are governed by contracts with the
funders and funder policies
• Close cooperation of funders with steering
committee
• Set up H3Africa Coordinating Centre and now also
secretariat at AESA
• Biannual H3Africa consortium meetings
• H3Africa working groups for specific issues
12. H3Africa management structure
Administration & Communication, M
& E, Training Resources,
opportunities & Tracking of Trainees
Hub and spoke model of nodes
General Assembly
Management Committee
Scientific Advisory Board
Manage access to data
and biospecimens
13. H3Africa consortium organization
Steering Committee
Chair/Co Chair
PIs, NIH/AESA/Wellcome
H3ACC
BioR PIDSAR
Ethics &
Regulatory
Community
Engagement
Genome
Analysis
Phenotype
Harmonizat
ion
Sustainability
HIV
Publica
tions
CVD
Independent
Expert Committee
Working Groups
14. H3Africa Policies & Guidelines
1. H3Africa Guidelines for Community Engagement
2. H3Africa Publications Policy
3. H3Africa Guidelines for Informed Consent
4. Framework for African Genomics and Biobanking
5. H3Africa Phenotype Harmonization Working Group
Recommendations
6. H3Africa Data Sharing, Access & Release Policy,
7. H3Africa Data and Biospecimen Access Committee
Guidelines
8. H3Africa Biorepository Submission Documents
15. Successes
• Value of network/consortium is greater than sum of its parts
• >130 individual and joint publications
• Inclusive and comprehensive policies and guidelines developed
• Data is being harmonized and made available via:
• EGA, ENA
• H3Africa catalogue
• Meta analysis has been performed as a consortium effort –about
to be published
• Very successful training program –based on demand, enabled by
funding and creative methods
• Built critical mass locally and regionally
• Pushed for open sharing of training materials, code, etc
• Efficient monitoring of specific metrics and general progress
16. What worked
• Having clear policies from funders in contracts & close cooperation
• Strong focus on building capacity and infrastructure: biorepositories,
bioinformatics, research
• Good training program –coordination of courses, fellows program
• Regular face-to-face meetings, focussed jamborees/hackathons
• Joining forces to solve common problems –community efforts
• Having common goals, and preferably also incentives
• Collaboration between related projects for data harmonization
• Working with relevant outside expert bodies (Globus, NRENs, EGA,
GOBLET, etc)
• Inclusivity and transparency
• Need for future sustainability –have to perform well! Sustainability
WG and activities at consortium meetings
• Incentives: Funding is a big incentive! Others include publication
and recognition
17. What didn’t work/challenges
• Not yet buy in from everyone –some individuals work alone
• The need for data harmonization and sharing is still not
completely recognized by PIs
• Still a sense of protection of data
• Harmonized data collection is not universal across projects
• Data is slow to be released
• Long term sustainability is an issue
• General challenges:
• High demand for infrastructure & skills
• Funding across countries
• Travel around Africa
18. Acknowledgements
The H3ABioNet & H3Africa
Consortium
Funding: NIH
Common Fund,
NGHRI grant:
U41HG006941,
U24HG006941
H3ABioNet team at CBIO:
• Sumir Panji
• Gerrit Botha
• Ayton Meintjes
• Suresh Maslamoney
• Ziyaad Parker
• Kim Gurwitz
• Mamana Mbiyavanga
• Katherine Johnston
• Paballo Chauke
• Verena Ras
