Country Offices Contact Share
Newsroom

Webinar: Preparing health workers for COVID-19 - Laboratory diagnosis

Join us on Wednesday, April 8 for a live webinar, sharing practical steps on preparing your health facility and workers for COVID-19. This week we will be focusing on the laboratory diagnosis with expert speakers, Professor Gerlad Misinzo of Sokoine University and Dr. Mwau Matilu, Deputy Director Kemri.

  • Apr 06, 2020

Date: 8 April 2020
Time: 3pm GMT +1

During this webinar, you can learn:

1. The laboratory testing currently available for sub-Saharan Africa
2. Equipment, staffing and commodity requirements with special attention to infection prevention and staff safety
3. How to perform common laboratory tests for COVID-19

During the webinar, you will receive downloadable resources for your patients and staff to get informed and stay safe during this pandemic.

Register now

Bios of expert speakers: 

Professor Gerald Misinzo, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Gerald Misinzo (BVM, MSc, PhD) is an associate professor of veterinary virology at the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. He holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from Sokoine Universoty of Agriculture, Tanzania (2000), Master of Science in Molecular Biology from KULeuven, Belgium (2003) and a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from University of Gent, Belgium (2007). Since 2009, he has served as principal investigator of influenza-like illnesses and severe acute respiratory infections program of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance at PharmAccess Tanzania. He also leads the SACIDS Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals in East and Southern Africa (SACIDS-ACE), an initiative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and the World Bank. He currently serves as a member of the Tanzania National Laboratory Sub-Committee and Vice-Chair of the Panel for the State of Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity in the SADC Region of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Dr. Matilu Mwau, Director, Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research
Matilu Mwau is an infectious diseases researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and a Visiting Professor, Nagasaki University. He is currently the Director, Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research (KEMRI). He was the Executive Director, Consortium for National Health Research (CNHR), from 2014-2016. Between 2013 and 2014, he was Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. He holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nairobi, a Master’s degree in Tropical Medicine from Nagasaki University and a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Medicine (Immunology) from Oxford University. His infectious diseases research revolves around HIV, malaria, human papillomavirus, leishmania, hepatitis, and arthropod-borne viruses, and he has published extensively in these areas.
Our COVID-19 response

Privacy settings

Decide which cookies you want to allow. You can change these settings at any time. However, this can result in some functions no longer being available. For information on deleting the cookies, please consult your browser’s help function. Learn more about the cookies we use via our privacy statement.

With the slider, you can enable or disable different types of cookies:

This website will:

  • Essential: Remember your cookie permission setting
  • Essential: Allow session cookies
  • Essential: Gather information you input into a contact forms, newsletter and other forms across all pages
  • Essential: Keep track of what you input in a shopping cart
  • Essential: Authenticate that you are logged into your user account
  • Essential: Remember language version you selected

This website won't:

  • Remember your login details
  • Functionality: Remember social media settings
  • Functionality: Remember selected region and country
  • Analytics: Keep track of your visited pages and interaction taken
  • Analytics: Keep track about your location and region based on your IP number
  • Analytics: Keep track of the time spent on each page
  • Analytics: Increase the data quality of the statistics functions
  • Advertising: Tailor information and advertising to your interests based on e.g. the content you have visited before. (Currently we do not use targeting or targeting cookies.
  • Advertising: Gather personally identifiable information such as name and location

This website will:

  • Essential: Remember your cookie permission setting
  • Essential: Allow session cookies
  • Essential: Gather information you input into a contact forms, newsletter and other forms across all pages
  • Essential: Keep track of what you input in a shopping cart
  • Essential: Authenticate that you are logged into your user account
  • Essential: Remember language version you selected
  • Functionality: Remember social media settings
  • Functionality: Remember selected region and country

This website won't:

  • Remember your login details
  • Analytics: Keep track of your visited pages and interaction taken
  • Analytics: Keep track about your location and region based on your IP number
  • Analytics: Keep track of the time spent on each page
  • Analytics: Increase the data quality of the statistics functions
  • Advertising: Tailor information and advertising to your interests based on e.g. the content you have visited before. (Currently we do not use targeting or targeting cookies.
  • Advertising: Gather personally identifiable information such as name and location

This website will:

  • Essential: Remember your cookie permission setting
  • Essential: Allow session cookies
  • Essential: Gather information you input into a contact forms, newsletter and other forms across all pages
  • Essential: Keep track of what you input in a shopping cart
  • Essential: Authenticate that you are logged into your user account
  • Essential: Remember language version you selected
  • Functionality: Remember social media settingsl Functionality: Remember selected region and country
  • Analytics: Keep track of your visited pages and interaction taken
  • Analytics: Keep track about your location and region based on your IP number
  • Analytics: Keep track of the time spent on each page
  • Analytics: Increase the data quality of the statistics functions

This website won't:

  • Remember your login details
  • Advertising: Use information for tailored advertising with third parties
  • Advertising: Allow you to connect to social sites
  • Advertising: Identify device you are using
  • Advertising: Gather personally identifiable information such as name and location

This website will:

  • Essential: Remember your cookie permission setting
  • Essential: Allow session cookies
  • Essential: Gather information you input into a contact forms, newsletter and other forms across all pages
  • Essential: Keep track of what you input in a shopping cart
  • Essential: Authenticate that you are logged into your user account
  • Essential: Remember language version you selected
  • Functionality: Remember social media settingsl Functionality: Remember selected region and country
  • Analytics: Keep track of your visited pages and interaction taken
  • Analytics: Keep track about your location and region based on your IP number
  • Analytics: Keep track of the time spent on each page
  • Analytics: Increase the data quality of the statistics functions
  • Advertising: Use information for tailored advertising with third parties
  • Advertising: Allow you to connect to social sitesl Advertising: Identify device you are using
  • Advertising: Gather personally identifiable information such as name and location

This website won't:

  • Remember your login details
Save & Close