A team of highly skilled experts from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI-USA), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and BecA-ILRI Hub (Kenya) will conduct the training sessions. The program includes comprehensive lectures and hands-on training sessions in Next generation sequencing technologies and it's applications to infectious diseases, metagenomics and microbiome analysis–tools and computational approaches to studying viral genomes. The BecA-ILRI Hub administrative team will provide logistical support.