ISN Africa Regional Board Webinar: African Data in the Global Kidney Health Atlas: Improving data retrieval, collaboration and utilization
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Research data is critical to healthcare planning and research. The Global Kidney Health Atlas was launched by the ISN in 2016, (the ISN-Global Kidney Health Atlas ‘ISN-GKHA’), to collect information on the current state of readiness, capacity, and competence for kidney health care delivery in each country and region. Unfortunately, participation and data retrieval from Africa has been suboptimal despite its being in the third iteration. There is a need to improve participation, collaboration and cooperation across the region hence this webinar.
Learning objectives:
- To improve collaboration and cooperation across Africa.
- To improve data generation and retrieval in Africa
- To encourage the development of renal registries across the region.
Ifeoma Ulasi
Nigeria
Gloria Ashuntantang
Cameroon
Elliot Tannor
Ghana
Aminu Bello
Canada
Dr Aminu Bello, MD, PhD, FRCP, FACP, FASN. Professor/Consultant Nephrologist, Division of Nephrology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. Dr. Bello qualified as MD in Nigeria and underwent specialist clinical training in internal medicine and nephrology in Nigeria, UK and Canada. He obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), completed his Masters with Distinction and PhD degrees in Nephrology/Epidemiology at the University of Sheffield in the UK (supervised by Prof Meguid El-Nahas). After completing his PhD, he went on to complete a post-doctoral clinical and research fellowship in nephrology at the University of Alberta, Canada (supervised by Dr Marcello Tonelli). Dr Bello is a physician-scientist with major research interests in improving outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), preventing disease progression and reducing risk of complications, development of innovative care delivery models, and quality improvement. He is a member of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network (AKDN), a successful established team of scientists, health care policy-makers, clinical leaders, educators, and knowledge translation experts that studies health services solutions to reduce the burden of CKD and other chronic diseases. He has over 180 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and has keen interests in global health initiatives to improve nephrology practice and education in the emerging nations.