International Women's Day 2020

06 Mar 2020

Sunday 8 March 2020 is International Women's Day. To celebrate, we have put together a video showcasing the IVVN-funded pump-priming project that are led by women.

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Featured pump-priming projects

Six of the 10 pump-priming projects the IVVN has funded are led by women and featured in our International Women's Day video. Find out more about each project by clicking the links below.

Dr Caroline Wasonga’s project on Nairobi sheep disease

Dr Kim Thompson’s project on Nile tilapia

Dr Pamela Opperman’s project on foot-and-mouth disease

Dr Thảo Ngô’s project on easily administered fish vaccines

Dr Anna Lacasta’s project on African swine fever

Dr Kate Sutton’s project on edible vaccines for chickens

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See also

Scientist looking through a microscope.

New mentoring fellowships for female researchers to address gender imbalance in science

Funded by the IVVN and Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the fellowships will support female postdoctoral scientists in LMICs.

IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme celebrated at the Scottish Parliament

IVVN African Schools Outreach Programme: Training and Pilot Activity in Nairobi, Kenya

The project team met at ILRI in March 2019 to train scientists who will be delivering the programme and to pilot the outreach activity in a secondary school in Nairobi.