- Day 1 - Wednesday, Apr 20
CelebrateLAB® West Africa Conference 2022
April 20 - 21, 2022
Alisa Hotel - Accra, Ghana
Theme: "Ensuring diagnostic capability and vaccine sufficiency as panacea to combating infectious diseases in West Africa”
Conference Schedule
Registration
- 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Breakfast / PosterSession
- 8:00 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.
Welcome
Opening Statement
Opening Plenary - West African Scientifics in a Pandemic Era:
Diagnostics and Vaccine Development
- 9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Workshop I - Covid-19 Past, Current and Future in Review for West
Africa
Workshop II - Global Health Security - Lessons from the current and
projection for future pandemics
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
- Lunch - 1:00 p.m. - 2:00p.m.
Workshop III - Future Application: Automated PCR Technologies for
Diagnostics and Surveillance of HIV, TB, and Malaria
Workshop IV - Lab and Research Role in Public Health and other Future
Outbreaks
- 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Workshop V - Biomedical Engineering and the Laboratory Profession
Workshop VI - Technology Behind Vaccine Production and the Benefits
for Africa
- 3:40 p.m. - 4:55 p.m.
Workshop VII - Understanding Lassa Fever in West Africa: Ongoing Research and Next Steps
- 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Day 2 - Thursday, Apr 21
Registration
- 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Breakfast / PosterSession
- 8:00 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.
Welcome
Opening Statement
- 9:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Opening Plenary - Human Resources and Diagnostics Capacity in West Africa
- 9:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
- Break
- 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Workshop VIII - Pre-Service: Classroom Lessons in Professionalism and
Ethics Post-Pandemic
Workshop IX - Use of post-pandemic laboratory data in improving
diagnostic capabilities for emerging and re-emerging infections in West
Africa
- 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
- Lunch - 11:45 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Workshop X - CLWA 2021 communique: what has come out of
recommendations; Mentorship
Workshop XI - Competency in malaria diagnostics control
- 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Workshop XII - Sustaining the culture of QA in clinical and research laboratories.
Workshop XIII - Next generation diagnostics: Should the Medical
Laboratory Scientists be worried?
- 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
- Break
- 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Workshop XIV - Combating Antimicrobial Resistance/AMR
Workshop XV- Supply Chain - Diagnostics, Drugs, Medical Technology,
and Logistics Management
- 3:40 p.m. - 4:55 p.m.
Workshop XVI - The Role of Lab Associations and Network across the Region: Shared Experiences
- 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Closing Ceremony
Special Thanks to all sponsors
Event Sponsors
