Opening and orientation
The opening convening sets the agenda: what the network is working on, what it needs, and who is in the room to help. Afternoon sessions split by field of practice and end with written commitments.
Annual programme
DiaspAfra Month
Four weeks when every part of the network is working at the same time — researchers, founders, clinicians, funders, students and the institutions that hold them together. Five host cities, one shared schedule.
AccraLagosNairobiLondonOnline
4weeks of programming
5host cities on one schedule
50%working sessions, not talks
7days to published recordings
The shape of it
Deliberately not a conference
Half the programme is working sessions. The other half is the part conferences genuinely do well — talks, panels, and the corridor conversations that follow them.
Clinics and surgeries
Grant-writing clinics, IP surgeries, incorporation workshops and data-deposit sessions. Bring a draft; leave with reviewer-style written feedback on it.
Labs and hospitals
Open laboratory tours, clinical site visits and placement briefings on both continents, plus the equipment and maintenance sessions that usually get skipped.
Demo, hiring and close
The venture cohort presents, employers run hiring rooms, and the month closes with a public account of what was committed in week one and what actually happened.
On the schedule
Full calendar Sessions already confirmed
The schedule is being finalised. Sessions appear here as they are confirmed.
What we ask
Every outcome gets recorded against the people who made it
A collaboration, a placement, a term sheet — each one is attached to the Passports involved rather than summarised in a conference report nobody reads. That is what makes the month worth repeating.
- Registration opens to Passport holders first
- Every online session recorded and published within a week
- Written commitments taken in week one, reviewed publicly in week four
- Outcomes attached to people and institutions, not to a PDF
- Fee waivers and travel support allocated by published criteria
Get started
Register for DiaspAfra Month
Passport holders get first access to registration across all five cities and every online session.