Fogarty International’s Emerging Global Leader Award For Dr. Alisha Wade
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Dr. Alisha Wade, Clinician Scientist and Senior Researcher in the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) in the School of Public Health and endocrinologist at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre has received an Emerging Global Leader Award from the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
Dr Wade received her MBBS (Hons) degree from the University of the West Indies and DPhil (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford prior to completing clinical training at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre and the University of Pennsylvania. She will be investigating the burden of endocrine and metabolic diseases in rural South Africa and ways in which we can improve the detection of these conditions. The award, which will run over five years, will provide Dr. Wade with protected time for research and career development activities. She will be mentored primarily by Prof Stephen Tollman of the Agincourt unit and Prof Anne Cappola in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania.