MephidA ReConnect
MephidA ReConnect is an effort to help challenge the brain drain dilemma in Africa, the program is geared to assist and encourage medical physicists in the diaspora and other health professionals to reconnect with the situation on the ground especially in their home countries and forge ways of supporting projects (through research, clinical services, training, mentoring etc.) aim at improving the health sector in their country of origin. The program’s goal is to achieve brain gain from brain drain, thereby closing the cancer care divide that exists in low and middle-income countries. At the moment Joel Kra a Medical Physicist from Ivory Coast working in Germany is leading the MephidA ReConnect for Ivory Coast and that of Ghana is being led by Hammond Z.
