The Central and West Africa Implementation Science Alliance (CAWISA) was established in September 2019 with a one-year seed award from the US National Institute of Health’s Fogarty International Center, through the Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA).
AHISA is a Fogarty-steered North-South network of 26 research teams working in sub-Saharan Africa. This award recognized a gap in implementation science (IS) infrastructure in West and Central Africa, and funded the establishment of a regional IS research collaboration and capacity-building consortium.
The Principal Investigator of the Fogarty CAWISA award is Dr. Nadia Sam-Agudu of the University Of Maryland Baltimore School Of Medicine and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (CAWISA Core Team).
In addition to Dr. Sam-Agudu, the CAWISA Core Team comprises of dedicated, regionally- and internationally-recognized researchers living and/or working in West and Central Africa, namely:
- Cameroon – Dr. Habakkuk Yumo
- Cameroon/Democratic Republic of the Congo – Dr. Marcel Yotebieng
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – Dr. Jean Nachega
- Ghana – Dr. Kwasi Torpey
- Ghana – Dr. LaRon Nelson
- Nigeria – Dr. Echezona Ezeanolue
