On 14 May 2026, the GenPath Africa consortium held its third Annual Meeting virtually, bringing together project partners from South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Germany. The meeting provided an opportunity to review progress across all work packages, share achievements from the past year and discuss priorities for the final phase of the project.

During this year’s World AMR Awareness Week, PARR-TB study co-leads Annelies van Rie (University of Antwerp) and Rob Warren (Stellenbosch University) discuss how GenPath Affrica is harnessing genomic sequencing to combat drug-resistant TB.

The Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) has unveiled a ten-year plan to develop integrated genomic systems to strengthen Mozambique’s public health efforts. The plan draws on insights from the GenPath Africa team’s ongoing work at INS.

In July 2025, members of the GenPath Africa consortium organised two hands-on trainings in Mozambique and South Africa to strengthen genomic surveillance capacities and public health efforts across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The 12th EDCTP Forum provided a powerful platform for advancing global health research. GenPath Africa was proudly represented by Prof Tulio de Oliveira, whose contributions highlighted the vital link between genomics, climate change, and public health in Africa.

On June 4-5, 2025, the GenPath Africa consortium convened in Antwerp, Belgium for its second annual meeting to share progress updates and align efforts to strengthen genomic epidemiology in Africa.

Meet Nália Ismael, one of GenPath Africa’s young scientists, who recently earned her PhD from Stellenbosch University. She represents the GenPath Africa consortium at Mozambique’s Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS), where she leads efforts to increase genomic surveillance to improve the country’s response to public health threats.

On World TB Day, GenPath Africa’s PARR-TB team highlights its ongoing efforts to reduce the burden of drug-resistant TB in South Africa by integrating next-generation sequencing (NGS) into routine healthcare.

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently organised a stakeholder workshop on wastewater environmental surveillance, followed by a week-long training on wastewater genomic surveillance in Nairobi, Kenya.

To celebrate this year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to some of the inspiring women who are part of the GenPath Africa consortium about their work and what advice they would give to the next generation of women in science.

As part of GenPath Africa’s PARR-TB team, Annelies Van Rie recently attended a workshop that focused on best practices around the clinical management of people with rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB).

GenPath Africa partners at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently held two stakeholder workshops on wastewater-based surveillance in Kisumu and Mombasa, Kenya.

On 24 July 2024, the GenEpi Network Steering Committee held its first meeting to discuss future collaboration within the network.

One year into the project, the GenPath Africa consortium came together at the Biomedical Research Institute (BMRI) in Cape Town, South Africa, for its first in-person meeting on May 27-28, 2024.

In 2023, GenPath Africa team members convened in two workshops to discuss project goals with stakeholders in Kenya and in South Africa.

On 10 October 2023, the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting (GCAM) 2023 brought togther six projects - including GenPath Africa - which are part of the newly formed Genomic Epidemiology Network.