Al-Sumait Prize

Al-Sumait Prize Kuwait's Al-Sumait Prize is an annual award to advance economic, social, human resources, and infrastructure development across Africa.

Al-Sumait Prizes are a major new initiative for Africa by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) to advance economic, social, human resources, and infrastructure development across the African continent. Aimed at helping African nations to overcome poverty, hunger, lack of potable water, or to improve health care, literacy and the allocation of economic resources, the new ‘Al

-Sumait Prize’ awards are named after Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Sumait, a Kuwaiti physician who devoted his life towards helping the poor in Africa in the field of health and education. The Al Sumait initiative was announced by the Amir of the State of Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, at the third African Arab Summit, which was hosted by the State of Kuwait in 2013.

Kuwait’s Al Sumait Prize congratulates Dr. Christian Happi, who as a co-leader of The Sentinel Project, which has been a...
28/12/2025

Kuwait’s Al Sumait Prize congratulates Dr. Christian Happi, who as a co-leader of The Sentinel Project, which has been awarded $100 million by the prestigious MacArthur Foundation. The Sentinel Project initiative “that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time”, the grant honours Happi and his co-founder, computational geneticist Dr Pardis Sabeti, who have already saved an uncountable number of lives. Together they have helped identify, and therefore stem, potentially disastrous outbreaks of yellow fever in Nigeria, mpox in Sierra Leone and Marburg virus in Rwanda. Dr. Happi’s organization The African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases won Kuwait’s Al Sumait Prize for African Development in 2021. The Al Sumait Prize is proud to support the recognition of individuals and organizations dedicated to the advancement of science, education, and development in Africa.

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