May 2018 Africa initiative latest You have received this monthly newsletter from More on our work to get more African research news into the AlphaGalileo because you are subscribed to the media, this is an extract from “Scientists In Africa Wonder If AlphaGalileo research news There's Bias Against Their Research by Great Jochem in ‘Goats service. AlphaGalileo is the and Soda – stories of life in a changing world’. You can read world’s independent business to business service of breaking the whole article and subscribe to other articles on research news for the media. development here
[email protected] “Abraham Haileamlak is a professor of pediatric cardiology at Jimma University in Ethiopia. He's also the editor-in-chief of the ‘Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences’, a peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Haileamlak does research on children's health and rheumatic heart disease. But when he shares his studies with journals based in high-income countries, he's often greeted with surprise. "They say they do not expect such quality research from a low-income country," he says. Other researchers in Africa report similar experiences. They say they simply don't get the same respect or representation as their Western counterparts. One research platform is trying to change that. That platform is AlphaGalileo. “Supporting the African research community is a natural part of our work,” commented Peter Green, Managing Director of AlphaGalileo, “we were created to encourage more and better use of the media by researchers. Our role includes support and encouragement not just delivering a world-class service.” Recent African research news carried by AlphaGalileo has included health research from SANTHE (the Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence) where Professor Thumbi Ndung’u (above) is Programme Director, and also Director of the HIV Pathogenesis Programme (HPP) at UKZN, and a Principal Investigator at the African Health Research Institute (AHRI).