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Cambridge researchers have long worked with African colleagues on issues that matter not just to the continent but to the world.

探花直播Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)

03 Sep 2020

Cambridge researchers are supporting a project to 3D-print face shields and face masks in Malawi. 探花直播work is helping them create a 'blueprint' for...

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Call of the wild collector

28 Aug 2020

Walking at 鈥榖otanist pace鈥 on Mount Terror in South Africa, Dr 脕ngela Cano likes to stop and smell the succulents. She then measures, photographs...

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Phone-based HIV support system repurposed for COVID-19 monitoring in Uganda

22 Jul 2020

A cost-effective phone-based system developed by a Cambridge researcher and her Ugandan colleagues to support HIV patients has been rapidly adapted...

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Found in translation

03 Jun 2020

How Cambridge researcher Dr Ebele Mogo helped tackle a coronavirus public health language gap across Africa in four weeks and 18 languages with 30...

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Students in class in Burkina Faso

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

27 May 2020

Millions of the world鈥檚 poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern...

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Surging numbers of first-generation learners at risk of being left behind in education systems worldwide

21 May 2020

鈥楩irst-generation learners鈥 鈥 a substantial number of pupils around the world who represent the first generation in their families to receive an...

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Open-source ventilator designed by Cambridge team for use in low- and middle-income countries

20 Apr 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at the 探花直播 of Cambridge has designed an open-source ventilator in partnership with local...

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探花直播plant scientist with a practical vision for Africa (and who wasn鈥檛 content to sit and drink tea).

17 Oct 2019

Carol Nkechi Ibe discovered the hard way what it鈥檚 like to be bright and educated, and yet feel like you know almost nothing. 探花直播life science...

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Hadza children engaged in cooking play

Gendered play in hunter-gatherer children strongly influenced by community demographics

26 Sep 2019

探花直播gendered play of children from two hunter-gatherer societies is strongly influenced by the demographics of their communities and the gender roles...

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Women in STEM: Valentina Ndolo

01 Aug 2019

Valentina Ndolo is a Gates Cambridge Scholar in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, where she is a PhD student developing mathematical models to...

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African Academics on Cambridge Research Office Capacity Building Programme

African academics collaborate on Cambridge Research Office programme

21 Jun 2019

Academics from across sub-Saharan Africa gathered in Cambridge this week to share knowledge and attend talks on how to build greater capacity in...

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Burial team in Guinea carry a victim of Ebola, 2015. UN Photo/Martine Perret

Half of Ebola outbreaks go undetected, study finds

14 Jun 2019

Half of Ebola outbreaks have gone undetected since the virus was discovered in 1976, scientists at the 探花直播 of Cambridge estimate. 探花直播new...

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