{"id":890,"date":"2025-03-27T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/?p=890"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:16:27","slug":"strengthening-global-partnerships-in-infectious-disease-research-a-memorable-visit-from-wrair-and-key-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/strengthening-global-partnerships-in-infectious-disease-research-a-memorable-visit-from-wrair-and-key-stakeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Global Partnerships in Infectious Disease Research: A Memorable Visit from WRAIR and Key Stakeholders"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Yesterday, we had the honour of hosting a distinguished delegation, including:

\ud83d\udd39 COL Julie Ake<\/a> \u2013 Director, Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research<\/a> (WRAIR), USA
\ud83d\udd39 COL Tom Brooks \u2013 Defence Attach\u00e9, U.S. Embassy, Abuja
\ud83d\udd39 COL Shannon L. \u2013 Director, WRAIR Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
\ud83d\udd39 Dr. Sandhya Vasan<\/a> \u2013 Vice President, Global Infectious Diseases Branch, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine<\/a> (HJF)
\ud83d\udd39 Brig. Gen. Babatunde Solebo<\/a> \u2013 Director General, NMOD Health Implementation Programme
\ud83d\udd39 Ms. Helina Meri \u2013 Country Director, WRAIR Africa, Nigeria
\ud83d\udd39 Dr. Zahra Parker, Ph.D., MPH<\/a> \u2013 Research Development & Implementation Lead, West Africa, HJF
\ud83d\udd39 Dr. Yakubu Adamu<\/a> \u2013 Deputy Country Director, WRAIR Africa, Nigeria

The visit featured a presentation by Prof. Christian Happi<\/a>, Director of IGH, as well as discussions on challenges, strategic pivots, and new partnership opportunities. The delegation also toured our facilities and visited the office of the Vice-Chancellor, Redeemer’s University<\/a>, where they were warmly received by Professor Peter Adewuyi Aderonmu, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, and other key members of university leadership.

We look forward to strengthening these collaborations and advancing impactful research in infectious diseases.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Yesterday, we had the honour of hosting a distinguished delegation, including: \ud83d\udd39 COL Julie Ake \u2013 Director, Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), USA\ud83d\udd39 COL Tom Brooks \u2013 Defence Attach\u00e9, U.S. Embassy, Abuja\ud83d\udd39 COL Shannon L. \u2013 Director, WRAIR Africa, Nairobi, Kenya\ud83d\udd39 Dr. Sandhya Vasan \u2013 Vice President, Global Infectious … Strengthening Global Partnerships in Infectious Disease Research: A Memorable Visit from WRAIR and Key Stakeholders<\/span>“>Continue reading Strengthening Global Partnerships in Infectious Disease Research: A Memorable Visit from WRAIR and Key Stakeholders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}