I didn’t get to live toot the excellent flash talks from early career researchers this morning at #DSIAfrica as I got randomly selected to score them! Fifteen 3 minute talks covering a range of research including legal and ethical frameworks for genomic data sovereignty and cross border transfer, data modeling on health outcomes, pathogen genomics and epidemic response, societal attitudes to vaccination, genomic research, etc.

Simisola Akintola (Ctr for Bioethics Research Nigeria) from the Bridging Gaps ELSI hub expresses frustration that some new laws in Nigeria around data sharing and privacy employ novel legal terms whose meaning haven’t been well established. #DSIAfrica

Alash’le Abimiku (IHV Nigeria) and Cheryl Baxter (CERI / Stellenbosch) present on the INFORM Africa research hub at the #DSIAfrica meeting.

#UKBB (Mark Effingham) presents at #DSIAfrica , describing both the rich data resource but also the #GA4GH friendly cloud platform (#DNAnexus ) by which they’re providing user access to it. Melanie Courtot in the lower right corner.

Nicky Mulder leads a break out working group on computational training at #DSIAfrica

Dr Lukman Abdulrauf of U Ilorin, Nigeria calls upon the AU to facilitate legal harmonization across the continent for data sharing laws to reduce legal fragmentation and ambiguity. #DSIAfrica

Houriyah Tegally of CERI and the #DSIAfrica INFORM project (an HIV & COVID project) presents on data generation and analysis in Terra for a recent Africa-wide SARS-CoV-2 analysis paper led by her.

Yesterday’s kickoff to the #DSIAfrica meeting in Cape Town. Fearless leader Nicky Mulder presiding.