17TH WARIMA Annual Workshops and Conference
Compliance = Quality Research
Theme
Compliance = Quality Research
Sub-themes
- Building A Sustainable Compliance Culture
- Managing International Research Collaborations
- Role Of Due Diligence In Building Compliance Systems
- Ethics And Regulatory Standards For Quality Research
- Safeguarding The Financial Integrity Of Projects
- Mentorship and Continuous Development Of Research Managers
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Workshop Session
Research Operations & Project Management
Impact Planning & Monitoring and Evaluation
Horizon Europe Framework Programme
Research Operations & Project Management
Strategic Leadership & Career Development
Good Financial Grant Practices
Meet Our Speakers
Professor Christian Happi is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics and the Director of the Institute of Genomics and Global Health (IGH), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria. He earned his PhD from the University of Ibadan in 2000 and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Prof. Happi has served as a Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
His research focuses on the genomics of infectious diseases—including Malaria, Lassa fever, Ebola, COVID-19, HIV and human genomics. Prof. Happi founded IGH, supporting genomic surveillance in 42 African countries and training over 3,000 scientists. He is a 2025 TIME100 and 2025 TIME100 in Health.
He is a Fellow of several prestigious academies worldwide, including Nigeria Academy of Science, Africa Academy of Science and the US National Academy of Medicine.
Prof. Faborode was educated at Victory College, Ikare (1968-1972), before proceeding to the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University where he obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Agricultural Engineering. He attended the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom for his PhD, which he obtained in 1986. He is a Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering.
As foundation for his deep administrative experience in the academia, he served in various capacities, including as Head of Department, Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Chairman of the Committee of Deans before becoming the Vice Chancellor of his alma mater, Obafemi Awolowo University from 2006-2011. He then served as the Secretary-General, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVC) and Committee of Pro-Chancellors (CPC) from 2012 to 2017.
Prof. Faborode is a registered engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) of which he became Vice President in 2005-2006. He holds the distinguished Fellowship of many global professional bodies including the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the International Institute of Agricultural and Biological Engineering of the International Commission, and the African Engineering Education Association, the Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Nigerian Society of Agricultural Engineers. He was President of the West African Society for Agricultural Engineering and currently serves as the President of the Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering (PASAE), with headquarters in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa. He is a serial grant award winner, and leads the Nigerian EU Horizon Europe NCP Network as National Coordinator.
He is happily married to Dr Helen Folake Faborode, an Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Expert, and they are blessed with four children.
Dr. Amal Amin is a professor for nanotechnology/polymer technology at national research Center-Egypt. She studied in, worked at and travelled to +30 countries including Spain, Germany (PhD-DAAD), USA, France having numerous activities as cofounder and executive committee member of the global and Egyptian young academies (GYA, EYAS). She was cofounding president and coordinator of the Egyptian society and Arab network for nanotechnology & TWAS young affiliate, science diplomacy alumni, EC member of (science in Exile) global initiative to support refugee scientists and Ex-member of ORCID board of directors. She is a fellow of (TWAS), (ISC), founding chair of women in science without borders’ (WISWB) initiative & World forum for WIS series, science for humanity foundation-Egypt, world forum for science innovation and entrepreneurship and science diplomacy for the future, cofounding chair for science for humanity-global society and (NARIMA).
She received outstanding women in tech award of Africa, national award of distinguished WIS and was classified by the global gender scan among who (make the difference). She got 2024 peace science and technology leadership award for exceptional women for peace global award. Dr. Amal achievements were featured in NASAC books in 2017, 2020, 2026, Scientific African, Nature, Royal society for chemistry.