February 2, 2021 By Deborah Borfitz February 2, 2021 | The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium is endeavoring to foster collaborative research on the world’s second-most populous continent, having spent the past decade bolstering the genomics research capacity here with 48 projects across 34 countries. Clinical geneticist and physician-scientist Neil Hanchard, M.D., Ph.D., through his academic position at Baylor College of Medicine, has, for example, been involved in a H3Africa-sponsored genomic study in children coinfected with HIV and tuberculosis whose principal investigator is based in Botswana. Most recently, Hanchard was one of the senior authors on an H3Africa-sponsored study published in