The McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health is a summer conference offering multiple professional development non-credit courses. Each course showcases internationally renowned faculty, diverse participant groups and opportunity for networking and collaboration with McGill University, in Montreal, Canada.
Philippa Makobore attended the one week session on Global Health Diagnostics that comprised of 450 international participants from about 50 countries that discussed topics including the state of diagnostic equipment in resource limited settings, WHO essential diagnostics list, novel point of care diagnostics and industry opinions. Philippa made a brief presentation in the UBORA project and the e-infrastructure during a pitching session for ideas and concepts.