We keep climbing! The second annual consortium meeting of the STAIRS consortium in Kumasi, Ghana, was graciously hosted from January 13-17, 2025, by STAIRS PI in Ghana Dr. Johna Adabie Appiah, together with his amazing team from Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. We were especially grateful to welcome the president of the Global Sepsis Alliance, Prof. Niranjan Tex Kissoon, and Dr. Janet Diaz from WHO in Geneva!

Completing the tour of the network, AFIDEP visited our DRC country team for Evidence-informed decision training in July.

The Ghana STAIRS team was also visited by our partners from AFIDEP in July. Evidence-informed decision training!

Upwards and onwards! The STAIRS team in Ethiopia invited our partners from AFIDEP to the beautiful Rift Valley to conduct the evidence-informed decision training in July. The team brought together a group of 19 stakeholders to strengthen capacity for translating sepsis research findings into policy in Ethiopia.

Our STAIRS team in Nigeria was the next team to undergo evidence-informed decision training in June, facilitated by AFIDEP. The UNTH team acquired skills on evidence synthesis and stakeholder engagement to optimize the translation of research outputs to policy in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest country by population.