Understanding the rise in cardiovascular diseases in Africa: harmonising H3Africa genomic epidemiological teams and tools.

Address: Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. [email protected].; Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.; Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.; University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.; Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand; Division of Human Genetics, NHLS and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.; Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.; Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.