MaRS Africa?
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Peter A. Singer, interim director and professor of medicine at U of T’s McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health here at the MaRS Centre, wrote in the National Post that MaRS could be a model for improving economic and social conditions in Africa.
He writes:
By helping African countries such as Ghana and Tanzania establish platforms like MaRS to bring together science, business and capital in innovative sectors — but adapted to local conditions and with local leadership — Canada could be making a huge contribution to Africa’s economic and social development. But good luck trying to convince the Canadian aid agency that it should be investing some of its money in a “MaRS Africa.”
Congratulations also go out to Professor Singer who this week received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Michael Smith Prize for Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year.
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