Baron Yankonde is a researcher at the Churches Health Association of Zambia.
Baron Yankonde came to this fellowship at KRISP in University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI at University of Stellenbosch to receive training on SARS-CoV-2, HIV, TB and other pathogen sequencing in order to improve genomic surveillance of wastewater, and mentor other scientists in Zambia
Duration of the fellowship: 10 April 2023 to 21 April 2023.
Trained received: Hands-on sequencing on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Illumina COVID-seq sequencing and bioinformatics analysis.
Fellowship sponsors: Rockefeller Foundation.