{"id":63093,"date":"2025-08-12T17:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63093\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:45:30","slug":"wafaa-m-rashed-africa-for-africans-shaping-the-future-of-genomics-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63093\/","title":{"rendered":"Wafaa M Rashed: Africa for Africans &#8211; Shaping the Future of Genomics Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and founder of PAPERI at Pan- African PGS Education and Research Initiative, shared a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/wafaa-m-rashed-bpharm-msc-phd-bcnsp-02642a125_from-technologist-to-policy-advocate-kevin-activity-7359926895439757312-LPA3?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADoF1EoBv2P8_NTShRGg5xZi537eGaNelWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica for Africans \u2013 Shaping the Future of Genomics Policy<\/p>\n<p>Meet Ojambo Kevin\u00a0from Uganda, a technologist and proud graduate of the 10th Cohort of the Policy Advocacy in Genetics and Genomics course, organized by PAPERI (Pan- African PGS Education and Research Initiative).<\/p>\n<p>In his heartfelt reflection, Kevin shares how this course transformed his perspective\u2014moving from a purely scientific view of genomics to understanding the power of policy advocacy in ensuring ethical, inclusive, and impactful integration of genetic and genomic science across Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qxdXdft7XIo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Watch<\/a> his full reflection.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u2019s journey reminds us:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Science alone is not enough\u2014we need strong policies to ensure equity and public trust.<br \/>\u2013 Ethical considerations must guide innovation from the lab to the community.<br \/>\u2013 Africa\u2019s future in genomics depends on our voices, our policies, our leadership.<br \/>Let\u2019s continue empowering African leaders to shape Africa\u2019s genomic future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More posts featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/wafaa-m-rashed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wafaa M Rashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and founder of PAPERI at Pan- African PGS Education and Research Initiative, shared a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[64,63,336,128],"class_list":["post-63093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}