Short Courses and Lectures
Stanford South Africa Biomedical InformaticsShort Courses
The Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Program is a partnership between Stanford University in the USA, the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape Town (UCT), and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South Africa. The mission of this program is to develop South African postgraduate students to become future leaders in the field of biomedical informatics by providing world-class education and research opportunities in the field, leading to the next generation of interdisciplinary faculty and development of the field of biomedical informatics in South Africa.
The Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Program consists of three separate parts: Short Courses, MSc and PhD Traineeships, and Visiting Scholarships to Stanford University.
WHO Tropical Disease Research Programme Short Courses
SANBI has been offering intensive training courses in Bioinformatics relevant to Tropical Disease Research since 2002. The courses are mainly sponsored by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Supplementary funding has been made available by the South African Medical Research Council and the National Research Foundation in the past. WHO/TDR Bioinformatics training courses aim to train scientists of endemic countries in Africa in the use of Bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics tools and methods. An extremely valuable outcome of these courses are new research projects and collaborations amongst course participants and course instructors.
S-Star.org Alliance Bioinformatics Education Online Courses
The S-Star.org Alliance is a collaboration between eight universities on five continents of which one is the University of the Western Cape. The alliance provides a global, unified bioinformatics learning environment (GLOBULE) made up of modular courses in the disciplines of genomics, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. The first course was held in 2001.