TERMS OF REFERENCE (SECONDMENT P4 level), TECHNICAL OFFICER (MEDICAL DEVICES), DEVICES AND DIAGNOSTICS GROUP, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL DEVICES TEAM, HEALTH PRODUCTS POLICY AND STANDARDS DEPARTMENT, ACCESS TO MEDICINES AND HEALTH PRODUCTS DIVISION. (who document)

Western countries are luring African medical professionals and healthcare workers to migrate as they seek to bridge the gap in medical personnel created by the coronavirus outbreak. Is this a loss for Africa, or are we entering into a different future globalised landscape? Read more>

Date : 7 July 2020 Location : online via ZOOM           Website

Date :  Oct. 24th – 26th, 2020. Location : online via ZOOM             Website

As industrialized economies start to see Covid-19 cases decline, the threat the coronavirus poses to much of Africa will soon become front and center. This is certainly not the first time a disease or virus has drawn attention to the vulnerabilities of health systems in the global south. However, the …

Investment in Man: IsDB’s Scholarship Programme By HE Dr. Bandar Hajjar, President of Islamic Development Bank Read more>

The rapid move to online teaching and learning as a means to curtail the spread of COVID-19 has exposed African universities to greater risk of cyber-crime, according to a number of experts. Read more>

Morocco’s Broadcasting and Television National Company (SNRT) is partnering with the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research to offer tele-education for students without access to the internet as universities shut down campuses to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Read more>

The field of medicine, specifically, wouldn’t have taken shape as early as it did without Muslim scholars. Read more>

A Tunisian students’ union has roundly rejected a proposal by the government to move classes online and has called for a boycott of enrolment on online education platforms, raising questions about how feasible an option online education is in many African countries. Read more>