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The climax of the Joint Advanced Seminar (JAS) 4 is the conference in which CARTA fellows attending the JAS4 present key scholarly achievements out of their PhD work. The purpose of this conference is to; Showcase progress, achievements and innovations from CARTA PhD fellows, disseminate PhD research findings, provide mentorship and networking opportunities, and broaden and strengthen training and research. This year CARTA held its 8th annual conference in which 27 fellows presented abstracts from their PhD work. For the first time, the conference this year was held virtually due to travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The key feature of this conference is that the organizing committee makes sure it mimics an international conference arrangement with a multidisciplinary audience made up of CARTA fellows from other cohorts, CARTA graduates, CARTA facilitators and other invited guests from the host university and other CARTA partner institutions. This arrangement gives fellows the confidence to present their scholarly work in subsequent conferences. The other feature is that a conference call is shared and fellows respond by submitting an abstract in the requested format and the conference organizing committee offers support to make sure the abstract book is produced and shared in the desired format.  As a host institution, at Makerere University we are confident that this conference publicizes the rigor of the CARTA PhD fellowship as fellows combine skills acquired across the different JASes into a single dissemination package.

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Recent Blogs

A Chat with Boladale Mapayi: First Female Professor of Psychiatry at Obafemi Awolowo University

To commemorate International Women’s Day which is marked annually on March 8, CARTA Communication Assistant, Topistar Karani caught up with Boladale Mapayi (CARTA cohort 4 graduate) and they chatted about her recent promotion that saw her become the first female Professor of Psychiatry at Obafemi

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Enhancing hearing care through research and practice: A chat with Kaitesi Mukara

Kaitesi Batamuliza Mukara is an Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgeon, Audiologist and Public Health Specialist. She is the Founding Chairperson of Hearing Health Rwanda, an organization that aims to raise awareness on ear health and prevention of ear and hearing problems. Kaitesi’s dream is

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CARTA Research Hubs: Call for Expressions of Interest

CARTA seeks to create CARTA research hubs at our partner institutions as we progress through the third phase of the CARTA strategy (2021-2025) dubbed CARTA2025. CARTA2025 aims to strengthen our proven CARTA approach to research capacity strengthening by establishing research hubs aimed at providing research

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Launch of the CARTA Evidence Website

The CARTA Evidence Website is an interactive platform that aims to demonstrate the impact of the CARTA network by timeously tracking, collating, analyzing, displaying, and enabling the uptake of empirical and theoretical evidence produced. The development of the website commenced in 2021, driven by PhD

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