AfOx 2024/25 Class
AfOx Insaka
AfOx Awarded the Vice-Chancellor Award
What we do
Creating a culture of equitable partnerships
We aim to provide an enabling environment for researchers and students that is conducive for entrepreneurship, innovation and research leadership
What we do
What we do
Research collaborations across disciplines
All our programmes are developed to ensure that partnerships between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford are equitable and genuinely co-developed
Catalyst grants
210
Grants
41
African institutions
33
Oxford departments
Visiting Fellows
57
Fellows
30
African Countries
30
Oxford departments
Translating research into action
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Dr Siana Nkya was awarded an AfOx Visiting Fellowship in 2019 to work with Prof Anna Schuh at Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford. There collaborative research has led to the formation of a social enterprise SEREN that provides affordable diagnostic tests for newborn babies in Tanzania.
The AfOx Fellowship had a dual benefit. Not only did it give me access to resources and equipment that were then lacking at my home lab, but it also made me think of the social aspect of the diagnostic test. For the first time in my career as a scientist, I thought, how can we create an innovation that will actually work in the community?
Siana Nkya, Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam & Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
