page_title: Julie Makani
hierarchical_section_title: Julie Makani
caption_attribution_description: Fogarty held its 50th anniversary symposium, &quot;What are the new frontiers in global health research?&quot; on May 1, 2018, at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Julie Makani, sickle cell disease researcher at Muhimbili University in Tanzania, discussed her work and encouraged NIH to continue supporting genomics studies in Africa. Symposium agenda and recorded webcast: &lt;a href="https://www.fic.nih.gov/About/50th-anniversary/Pages/50th-anniversary-symposium-agenda.aspx" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.fic.nih.gov/About/50th-anniversary/Pages/50th-anniver...&lt;/a&gt; Credit: Andrew Propp for Fogarty/NIH
context_page_description: Julie Makani is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, she is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2011, she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.
context_section_description: Julie Makani (born 1970) is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor  in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, she is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2011, she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.
caption: Makani, May 2018
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