Africa Health Agenda International Conference 2021
Theme: Decade for Action: Driving Momentum to Achieve UHC in Africa

Du 8 au 10 mars 2021   |  14:00 – 18:00 EAT

Du 8 au 10 mars

PAS DE DÉPLACEMENT NÉCESSAIRE

Séances plénières intéressantes

Tables rondes de haut niveau

Apprentissage et réseautage

Recherches et ressources en matière de santé

À propos de l'événement

AHAIC est une conférence biennale sur la santé mondiale organisée par Amref Health Africa, la première organisation de développement sanitaire en Afrique, fondée en 1957. Cette année, la conférence virtuelle est coorganisée par Africa CDC, Roche, Takeda Pharmaceuticals et la Fédération internationale de l'industrie du médicament (FIIM).

La conférence réunit diverses parties prenantes afin d'accélérer les progrès vers la couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU) et de tracer collectivement la voie à suivre en mettant en évidence et en cherchant à relever les défis sanitaires les plus urgents de l'Afrique. Pour susciter un engagement et une action plus importants, la conférence mettra en vedette les principaux problèmes de santé sur le continent et montrera comment de nouvelles recherches, des innovations et des engagements politiques peuvent résoudre ces défis pour faire progresser la CSU.

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Pourquoi s'inscrire à AHAIC 2021

La participation à la conférence AHAIC 2021 offrira des occasions uniques de tisser des liens, d'apprendre, de s'autonomiser et de se transformer en donnant aux participants l'accès à la plus grande conférence virtuelle sur la santé en Afrique. Cette plateforme offrira aux intervenants et au public la possibilité d'aborder les défis auxquels est confronté le secteur de la santé en Afrique, et d'explorer les possibilités de faire progresser la Couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU) sur tout le continent. Les participants auront un accès virtuel gratuit à des séances passionnantes mettant en vedette des leaders d'opinion et des acteurs du changement, exploreront des thèmes qui reflètent de manière significative le contexte sanitaire africain unique, profiteront d'opportunités de réseautage avec leurs pairs, et apprendront et accéderont aux ressources de certains des plus grands décideurs en matière de santé sur le continent.

Qui devrait y assister

La conférence réunira un groupe diversifié d'experts et de parties prenantes issus de multiples secteurs, notamment des médecins, des chercheurs, des scientifiques, des bailleurs/donateurs, des partenaires au développement, des dirigeants politiques et gouvernementaux, des acteurs du secteur privé, de la société civile, des agents de santé communautaires, des jeunes, des défenseurs de la santé, etc. En mettant l'accent sur la présentation d'idées créatives, la promotion de partenariats multisectoriels et la défense du leadership et de la redevabilité en matière de santé, AHAIC 2021 sera une conférence inclusive sur la santé qui mettra en vedette des voix diverses et dynamiques.

Agenda

ORDRE DU JOUR : CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE SUR LE PROGRAMME DE SANTÉ EN AFRIQUE, 2021
Thème : Décennie d'action : Entretenir la dynamique pour parvenir à la CSU en Afrique
Sous-thèmes : Leadership, Redevabilité, Technologies, Sécurité de la santé
Localisation : Virtuelle
Date : du 8 au 10 mars 2021


Vue d'ensemble

Le droit à des soins de santé abordables et de qualité pour tous est la clé de voute du développement durable. Pourtant, chaque année, 11 millions de citoyens africains sont contraints de vivre dans l'extrême pauvreté en raison de coûts de santé ruineux, ce qui perpétue les cycles de pauvreté et éloigne les populations des objectifs de développement durable (ODD).

La Conférence internationale sur le programme de la santé (AHAIC) 2021 est une réunion mondiale dirigée par des Africains, qui réunit diverses parties prenantes pour examiner comment l'Afrique peut accélérer les progrès vers la couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU) - et pour tracer collectivement la voie à suivre, de l'engagement à l'action. La conférence de 2019, qui s'est tenue à Kigali, a réuni plus de 1 800 délégués, dont des scientifiques, des dirigeants de gouvernements, du secteur privé, de la société civile, des partenaires au développement, des jeunes et des défenseurs de la santé, ainsi que des délégués issus de 50 pays, pour discuter des systèmes et des innovations nécessaires pour permettre à l'Afrique d'atteindre la Couverture sanitaire universelle.

S’inspirant de la dynamique de 2019, l'AHAIC 2021 se concentrera sur les plus grands défis sanitaires auxquels l'Afrique est confrontée et mettra en avant des voix diverses et dynamiques émanant de tous les secteurs pour tracer collectivement la voie à suivre pour parvenir à la CSU. Le thème de la conférence de 2021 est La "Décennie d'action" : Entretenir la dynamique pour parvenir à la CSU en Afrique".

Grâce à son format virtuel, AHAIC 2021 - coorganisé par Amref Health Africa, Africa CDC, FIIM, Johnson & Johnson, Roche et Takeda - atteindra un public encore plus large et plus diversifié. Cette conférence de trois jours réunira un large éventail de leaders d'opinion dans le domaine de la santé, notamment des fonctionnaires, des acteurs du secteur privé, des experts techniques et des organisateurs de terrain, afin de faire avancer la question de la CSU en Afrique de manière durable et innovante.



Lundi 8 mars 2021

14h00 – 14h30 EAT

Cérémonie d’ouverture

Plénière

  • Spectacle musical
  • Vidéo d'ouverture
  • Allocution de bienvenue prononcée par le Dr Githinji Gitahi, PDG du Groupe Amref Health Africa
  • Discours d'ouverture prononcée par le Dr Charles Okeahalam, président du Conseil d'administration international, Amref Health Africa

14h30 – 15h00 EAT

Discussion informelle: Politiques pour le bien – Mener le programme de la CSU avec conviction

Scène principale

La discussion informelle se tiendra entre les chefs d'État africains et les responsables de la santé, qui ont su faire face à l'adversité et s'engager sur des voies que peu d'autres auraient le courage d'emprunter. Elle mettra en vedette des dirigeants inspirés qui dialogueront, offrant ainsi une plateforme pour partager les expériences et les enseignements tirés de l'avancées relatives au programme de Couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU), inspirer les participants et préparer le terrain pour les séances plénières et les sessions qui suivront.


15h00 – 15h50 EAT

Table ronde: Lancement du Rapport AHAIC sur l’état des lieux de la CSU en Afrique

Prof. Edwine Barasa

Scène principale

Afin de s'assurer que l'Afrique est sur la bonne voie quant à la réalisation des objectifs de la CSU d'ici 2030, Amref Health Africa a mis en place une Commission indépendante chargée d'examiner les progrès et de formuler des recommandations sur le leadership, la responsabilité, les technologies/l’innovation et la sécurité sanitaire, pour aider à orienter le continent vers ces objectifs. Dans le cadre de son mandat, la Commission de l'AHAIC sur l'état des lieux de la CSU en Afrique présentera un rapport sur l'état des lieux de la CSU en Afrique, qui dressera la carte des progrès des pays africains vers leurs objectifs en matière de CSU. Le rapport fera également état des réussites, des obstacles et des leçons tirées de l'expérience sur la voie de l'accès équitable, des soins de santé de qualité et de la protection financière en Afrique. Cette séance comprendra une vidéo d'ouverture, suivie d'une table ronde avec modérateur, au cours de laquelle les commissaires partageront et discuteront des constations du rapport.


15h50 – 16h00 EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

16h00 – 17h00 EAT

Séance plénière 1: Leadership pour le changement: Parcours d’Afrique vers la CSU

Dr. Ladi Hameed

A health care physician who has worked extensively in both the public and private health care systems in Nigeria, Dr. Hameed's areas of interest are health systems strengthening and capability development for workers in the health care sector. Before becoming the General Manager for Roche in Nigeria, Dr Hameed was the head of Medical Affairs for Roche in sub-Saharan Africa where he worked with stakeholders across the region on policy development and improving patient journeys in different disease areas.


Dr. Angela Gichaga

Dr. Angela Gichaga is a public and social sector enthusiast with experience working across civil service, consulting, and NGOs and academia. She is an executive coach, human capital and leadership development advisor with regional and global expertise, as well as an exceptional track record of optimizing performance. Angela runs her tailor made Pathway to Parity programme to empower women and young people in the workplace and society. She now serves developing country Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance globally, in building resilient and sustainably financed primary and community health systems as CEO of the Financing Alliance for Health. Angela completed her undergraduate degree in Medicine, Masters in Health Economics and Policy and Fellowship in Public Sector Management and has served as a frontline clinician, health administrator, policy maker, academic and consultant. Angela served the MOH Kenya as a District Medical Officer of Health (DMOH) and a hospital in charge (MEDSUP) in both Meru and Garbatulla, leading ~150 multi-disciplinary team members through coordinating strategic planning, resource mobilization, service delivery, recruitment, monitoring and capacity building.

She then joined the MOH HQ, where she supported health financing, co-developed national strategies and prepared reports on the country’s health achievements.  Angela was humbled to receive the Australian Leadership Awards for Africa (2012) and the President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship (2014) in recognition of her exemplary leadership within the civil service and operational track record of excellence in achieving results. She was named one of Fortune's Worlds Greatest Leaders in 2018 and an Archbishop Tutu Leadership fellow in 2019. From civil service, she then joined McKinsey & Company’s Africa Delivery Hub (ADH) working on socio-economic and development issues in Africa before transitioning into her role at the Financing Alliance for Health. She also serves on the Global Board of Population Services International that operates in 46 countries globally.


Helga Fogstad

Helga Fogstad is the Executive Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH). Strongly committed to human rights, public health and gender issues, Ms. Fogstad has extensive experience in forging partnerships for the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents. She is a health economist with more than 30 years of public health experience, which includes developing countries at the sub-national, national and global levels.  Prior to PMNCH, Ms. Fogstad was the Director of the Department of Global Health, Education and Research at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), where she guided the rapid scale-up of proven cost-effective interventions focused on the health MDGs for women and children. In this capacity, she was actively engaged in political mobilization and advocacy initiatives, including the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. Helga continues to be involved on many Boards and committees as an active advocate and influencer in the global health sector.


Dr. Roger Kamba

In 2019, Dr. Roger Kamba was nominated by the DRC President, H.E. Felix Tshisekedi, as the Special Adviser to the President for UHC. In this role, he is responsible for the coordination of all state and private actors involved in the establishment of UHC in the DRC and the development and implementation of The DRC’s UHC strategic plans. Dr. Kamba was nominated by President Felix Tshisekedi as the COVID-19 Task Force Coordinator in 2020.


Prof. Francis Omaswa

Francis Omaswa is the Executive of the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), Publisher, Africa Health Journal and Chair of the African Health Systems Governance Network (Ashgovnet). He co-chairs the Independent Advisory Group to the WHO Director for the African Region. He was Director General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health in Uganda and coordinated major reforms in the health sector. He has a keen interest to access to quality health services by rural populations and has spent five years testing various approaches for this at the Ngora Mission Hospital in Uganda. He has been Chancellor of Busitema, University, Uganda; President, African Platform on Human Resources for Health (APHRH); Special Adviser to the WHO; Director General and founding Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA). He is founding Director of the Uganda Heart Institute at Makerere University, Uganda; founding President of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa; was chair of the GAVI Independent Review Committee; founding Chair of the Global Stop TB Partnership; and Chair of the Portfolio and Procurement Committee of the Global Fund Board. He was a member of the steering committee of the High Level Forum on health-related MDGs and has served on Commissions, Committees and Expert panels. His services have been recognised with multiple national, regional and global merit awards. Francis Omaswa is a graduate of Makerere Medical School, Uganda and has qualifications in surgery, health services management and medical education

Scène principale

Le COVID-19 est un douloureux rappel de l'enjeu si nous ne parvenons pas à réaliser la CSU. L'Afrique se trouve à un moment crucial où la région est aux prises avec des systèmes de santé inadéquats et des fonds insuffisants pour que les soins de santé puissent répondre aux besoins de sa population. À cela s'ajoute l'impact d'une pandémie paralysante qui a placé la région face aux défis combinés de la reprise sociale et économique et a mis en évidence le leadership urgent nécessaire pour résoudre les problèmes de santé les plus complexes du continent. Cette séance réunira des responsables de la santé de tout le continent pour des discussions stimulantes sur la façon dont ils se voient définir le programme CSU en Afrique au cours de la prochaine décennie. Cette séance fêtera les exemples de forts dirigeants qui font avancer le programme de santé en Afrique ; amplifiera la nécessité de politiques et d'investissements solides dans les programmes latéraux, comme la CSU, en plus des programmes verticaux ; et discutera des possibilités que les gouvernements et les partenaires peuvent exploiter pour augmenter les investissements relatifs aux efforts de la CSU. La séance s'ouvrira par une vidéo présentant des voix communautaires s'exprimant sur la CSU, suivie d'un débat d’experts avec modérateur.


17h00 – 17h05 EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

17h05 – 18h05 EAT

Séances parallèles

Ateliers

5-6 séances parallèles se dérouleront simultanément et aborderont une palette de questions liées à la santé. Il s’agit de:

Dr. Iris Mwanza

Dr. Iris Mwanza is the Director of the Community Health Roadmap, a collaboration of UNICEF, USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank, World Health Organization and the Community Health Acceleration Partnership – elevating community health systems and community health workers in 15 focus countries.

Prior to this position, she was the Executive Director of the BroadReach Institute for Training and Education, and the Deputy Director and Chief Operations Officer for the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). At CIDRZ, she ran operations for large scale prevention, care, and treatment programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Cervical Cancer. Before global health, Iris worked at the World Bank in Washington DC on Finance and Private Sector Development in South Asia, and as a corporate lawyer. She is a strong advocate for gender equality and is the co-chair of the Women in Global Health and W.H.O. Gender Equity Hub. She is also passionate about conserving nature and in on the WWF-US Board of Directors.

Iris has an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and law degrees from Cornell University and the University of Zambia.

For more information:

www.communityhealthroadmap.org

Dr. Natalia Kanem

Dr. Natalia Kanem is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Dr. Kanem joined the United Nations in 2014 as UNFPA Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania, and served as Deputy Executive Director in charge of programmes from 2016 until her appointment as Executive Director in 2017. Previously, she served as founding president of ELMA Philanthropies, Inc., senior associate of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies, and as Ford Foundation Deputy Vice-President for peace and social justice programmes in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and North America. Dr. Kanem holds a medical degree from Columbia University in New York, a master’s degree in Public Health, with specializations in epidemiology and preventive medicine, from the University of Washington in Seattle and a bachelor’s degree in history and science from Harvard College.

Anuradha Gupta

Anuradha Gupta is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Since joining Gavi in 2015, Anuradha has led efforts to put equity and gender at the centre of Gavi’s programmatic planning and to tailor support to countries within Gavi’s strategy. She has also driven efforts to create a new model of country-level Alliance support, through the establishment of the partners’ engagement framework (PEF). At the same time, Anuradha has helped to improve country ownership and leadership of Gavi-supported programmes while enhancing accountability for results. In 2019, Gavi received the prestigious Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award for providing sustained access to childhood vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, saving millions of lives and highlighting the power of immunisation to prevent diseases. Prior to Gavi, Anuradha served as Mission Director of the National Health Mission of India, where she ran the largest – and possibly most complex – public health programme in the world with an annual budget of US$ 3.5 billion. A passionate and influential advocate of women, young girls and children, Anuradha played a leading role in India’s efforts to eradicate polio transmission, reduce maternal and child mortality and revitalise primary health care. Anuradha has contributed towards a number of important global health initiatives. She served as a member of the Steering Committee for Child Survival Call to Action, co-chaired the Stakeholder Group for the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning and was a member of the Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) Reference Group. Anuradha served as Co-Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and is currently a member of the PMNCH Board. She also played a role in shaping the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and is a member of the GFF Investors Group. From 2015-2018, Anuradha served on the Merck for Mothers Advisory Board. Anuradha holds an MBA from the University of Wollongong in Australia and received executive education from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In 2015, she was named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Dr. Ndifanji Melia Namacha (MBBS)

Ndifanji is a global health advocate from Malawi and a Malaria No More UK youth ambassador. She is a member of the Commonwealth Youth Health Network and was one of the key speakers at the high level Malaria Summit during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, 2018.  Ndifanji was part of the African Union Common Panel ‘Strengthening Youth Leadership and Engagement in the Fight Against Malaria in Africa’ a round table discussion organized by the AU Commission. Ndifanji has taken up various roles ranging from lecturing in public health at the University of Malawi, research with the Malaria Epidemiology group at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Program, to being appointed Deputy Director Health Technical Support Services at the Ministry of Health Malawi. Currently she is a Program Manager on a PEPFAR Funded project whose goal is to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control through Scaling up Quality Testing, Care and Treatment.

Kene Esom

Kene Esom is a Policy Specialist with the United Nations Development Programme. His work focuses on enabling legal and policy environment for effective rights-based responses to health, and the intersection of law, human rights and gender. Prior to joining UNDP, Kene worked on various human rights and development issues including asylum and forced migration, sexual and gender-based violence and sexual orientation and gender identity. He is a Barrister-at-Law and holds a Master of Law [LL.M] in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria and a certificate in Global Health Delivery from Harvard University.

Bogolo Kenewondo

Bogolo J. Kenewendo is an African Economist, Managing Director of Kenewendo Advisory and the former Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry in Botswana. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. Kenewendo is a member of the United Nations Secretary-General (UN SG) António  Guterres’ High-Level Panel on digital cooperation and group on Financing for Development, a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council for Global Public Goods in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and also a WEF Young Global Leader. She is also the co-founder and chairperson of Molaya Kgosi Trust and sits on several corporate boards. She’s an advocate for the empowerment and protection of children and women.

Briser les barrières : La santé et le leadership soucieux de l’aspect sexospécifique en Afrique

Animé par Amref Health Africa

La santé des femmes est vitale pour faire progresser les objectifs de santé et de développement plus larges en Afrique. Pourtant, les femmes elles-mêmes - en particulier les Africaines - sont sous-représentées dans les postes de direction et de prise de décision dans les institutions de santé mondiales et nationales, tandis que la santé des femmes est souvent défavorisée ou sous-financée par rapport à d'autres questions de santé. En outre, la pandémie du COVID-19 nous a montré que les progrès réalisés dans le domaine de la santé des femmes sont menacés, notamment en ce qui concerne la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs (SDSR) et la santé maternelle, néonatale et infantile (MNCH).

Cette séance, qui aura lieu à l'occasion de la Journée internationale de la femme, permettra de rehausser le discours sur les femmes dans la santé mondiale - en mettant l'accent sur les femmes en tant que dirigeantes et sur les femmes en tant que bénéficiaires des programmes et des financements de la santé. La séance fournira une plate-forme pour mettre en évidence le rôle vital que les femmes dirigeantes ont joué pour relever les défis sanitaires, tels que la pandémie du COVID-19 - de l'élaboration des politiques et du leadership technique à la recherche et au développement scientifiques. Elle mettra également l'accent sur la participation des femmes aux politiques de santé et à la prise de décision (en particulier pour la santé des femmes, les SDSR et la MNCH) ainsi que sur les lacunes en matière de leadership et d'influence des femmes qui doivent être comblées. Les conversations encourageront une plus grande collaboration et coordination entre les parties prenantes pour faire progresser une approche de la Couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU) qui soit équitable pour les deux sexes, et réitéreront la nécessité de donner la priorité au financement, aux politiques et aux programmes qui répondent aux besoins de santé des femmes et des filles, dans le cadre des plans et des investissements des pays en matière de CSU.

Le modérateur invitera également les intervenants à discuter de l'importance de la suppression des obstacles en faveur des jeunes femmes dirigeantes. Les orateurs seront invités à partager leurs expériences personnelles et leurs points de vue sur les obstacles qu'ils ont rencontrés (ou continuent de rencontrer) dans leur carrière, sur la manière dont ils ont surmonté les obstacles liés au genre, sur les raisons pour lesquelles ces défis demeurent et sur ce que les femmes leaders et leurs alliés peuvent faire pour aider à changer les règles du jeu pour la prochaine génération de femmes leaders.

Edwin Macharia

Edwin Macharia is the Global Managing Partner of Dalberg Advisors, the leading global strategic advisory firm that works collaboratively with public, private and philanthropic organisations to enable all people, everywhere, to reach their fullest potential. In this role, Edwin sets the strategic direction of the firm and oversees activities across 30+ offices worldwide. At Dalberg, Edwin supports clients on a range of issues including strategy, operational efficiency, and program implementation. Edwin joined Dalberg from the Clinton Foundation, where he held multiple roles focused on rural communities. Before that he was at McKinsey & Company, where he served clients in the financial services and pharmaceutical sectors. Edwin is a global board member of The Nature Conservancy and Nabo Capital. He also just completed his term on Amref University Governing Council.

Justin Apsey

Justin Apsey is the Vice President - Africa Transformation at Unilever. He joined Unilever in Customer Development via the Management Trainee program in January 2000. Over the years he occupied various roles across the business units in Customer Development and Marketing, including a 3 year expatriation to Australia. In early 2012, Apsey took up the role as Vice President of Homecare on the Unilever South Africa Board.  In February 2016, Justin moved to Nairobi, Kenya as Managing Director for East Africa and the Emerging Markets, responsible for transforming the cluster in service of driving Africa’s accelerated growth agenda. While in East Africa, Justin founded and led some of the region’ milestone strategic partnership initiatives driven through employee purpose in action under the Bright Future Fund program, promoting circular plastic economy, youth skills empowerment, women entrepreneurship and community livelihoods. In January 2021, after completing a four-year tenure as Managing Director, Justin started his current role as Vice President - Africa Transformation at Unilever, as part of the Executive Leadership Team and moved to South Africa where he is currently based. Prior to joining Unilever Justin worked at Ogilvy in Client Service and Strategy. Ogilvy is one of Unilever’s key advertising agencies across various brands and is part of the WPP group.  Justin Holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree, with honours in Marketing from the University of Cape Town. He is married with three children. He is very passionate about Africa and seeing it succeed. His mantra is to lead in creating a brighter future for all. When not working, Justin enjoys the outdoors, running and staying healthy.

Kojo Boakye

Kojo Boakye is Facebook’s Director of Public Policy for Africa. He’s an ICT for Development practitioner with 17+ years’ experience working with governments, fixed-line and mobile operators, development partners, online service providers, content developers, entrepreneurs, and civil society organisations. Prior to joining Facebook, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the World Wide Web Foundation’s Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), and he previously headed Research and Consultancy at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).  Before being asked to lead Facebook’s policy work in SSA Kojo’s work focused on broadband affordability, connectivity and access, with a special focus on the socio-economic impact of broadband services. Today, his work involves the full gamut of policy matters that impact the digital economy, including data privacy, content policy, taxation, cybersecurity, election integrity, online safety, digital literacy, digital payments, and entrepreneurship. Kojo continues to be passionate about creating opportunities for Africa and Africans. Most recently, he joined the board for Junior Achievement Africa. In addition to an MSc in Development Studies, Kojo holds a BA in African History and Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Allen Asiimwe

Allen is the Chief Technical Officer at TradeMark East Africa. In this role she is responsible for the technical delivery of TMEA’s entire project portfolio in infrastructure, trade environment, and business competitiveness spanning 12 countries. Allen also oversees the Climate Change and Gender portfolios and leads collaboration with key stakeholders and development partners, including the Partner States, FCDO, USAID, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. Prior to this, Allen has been a consultant for the African Export Import Bank supporting the implementation of the Intra Africa Trade Initiative and has served as past CEO of AVID Development, a consulting firm working on key issues of trade, development and governance in Africa. She is also a co- Founder of the Girls for Girls Global Mentoring Initiative now in 23 countries. Allen holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School (Edward Mason Fellow, 2017) and a Masters in International Business Law from the University of Manchester, UK (1998).

Eyong Ebai

Eyong Ebai is Zone General Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa, responsible for GE Healthcare’s operations in 22 markets across West Central, South and East Africa. Eyong also serves as an Executive Director on the Board of GE International Operations (Nigeria) Ltd. Eyong first joined GE Healthcare in 2016 as General Manager West & Central Africa before his appointment as Executive General Manager for West, Central and French Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018.  Prior to GE, Eyong held leadership roles in the pharmaceutical, medical device, consumable, and equipment industries. He began his career in the graduate development program at Janssen, part of the Johnson & Johnson group of companies, and subsequently took on key commercial roles across several business units. Eyong then moved to Smith+Nephew, a leading medical equipment manufacturing company. After 15 years working in Europe, Eyong decided to focus his gained experience on the African continent, joining Johnson & Johnson Medical as the Market Development Manager for Anglophone West Africa, responsible for building the J&J Medical Surgical & Orthopaedic business across the region.  Eyong earned a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science from the University or York and post-graduate qualifications in Health Economics & Market Access from the University of Marseille. In his spare time, Eyong enjoys watching the Tottenham Hotspurs, running, and travelling.

Dr. Hauwa Mohammad

Dr Hauwa Mohammed has over 20 years’ experience working in Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) services. She has worked as a clinician and consultant obstetrician and gynecologist in Nigeria. She has been working as a public health physician for over 10 years on several MNCH programmes in Africa.  Dr Mohammed has been involved in operations research in MNCH projects and has participated in the development of training curriculum for Antenatal Care, Postnatal Care and Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care. She is involved in pre- and in-service education of midwives and doctors organizing and executing Life Saving Skills/Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care (LSS/EmONC), Antenatal and Postnatal Care and Quality of Care (QI) improvement trainings. Dr Mohammed currently works as a Senior Technical Officer for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Nigeria she is dedicated to the improvement of MNCH in Africa.

Partenariats utiles

Animée par Amref Health Africa  

Pour faire progresser le programme de santé de l'Afrique, il faut briser les cloisonnements et adopter une approche globale de la société. Alors que nous travaillons à faire progresser la Couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU), notamment dans le cadre du COVID-19, les gouvernements, le secteur privé, la société civile et toutes les autres parties prenantes auront une responsabilité et un rôle à jouer. Les partenariats doivent être encouragés à travers les secteurs et les zones géographiques afin de tirer parti des connaissances, des compétences, de l'expertise et des ressources des différents acteurs. En outre, la pandémie du COVID-19 a mis à l'épreuve les systèmes de santé, perturbé les économies et transformé le paysage sanitaire mondial - à la lumière de cela, il est impératif que les partenariats de santé soient flexibles, dynamiques et adaptables à des circonstances changeantes. Cette séance explorera le potentiel de création de partenariats stratégiques, transparents, mutuellement bénéfiques et innovants pour aider à catalyser les progrès vers les objectifs de santé communs - ainsi que l'intérêt d'engager de nouveaux partenaires non conventionnels pour s'attaquer aux problèmes de santé mondiaux, y compris des partenaires extérieurs au secteur de la santé. Cette séance présentera notamment les arguments en faveur des collaborations multisectorielles qui ont vu le jour ou se sont adaptées pendant la pandémie du COVID-19, afin de répondre aux besoins immédiats tout en se concentrant sur la durabilité et les objectifs à long terme. Les intervenants souligneront comment les partenariats non traditionnels peuvent inciter de nouveaux publics à promouvoir le changement, comment des secteurs autres que la santé et le développement peuvent contribuer à faire avancer le programme de santé en Afrique et comment la flexibilité et l'innovation sont essentielles pour obtenir un impact. Cette séance mettra également en évidence les recommandations de partenariats fructueux et ciblés pour une collaboration efficace afin de faire progresser le programme de santé en Afrique. La conversation sur les "partenariats ciblés" présente l'occasion de célébrer les partenariats novateurs et adaptables, de discuter de la manière de les mettre à l'échelle pour atteindre des populations plus larges et d'identifier de nouveaux domaines d'impact et de collaboration potentiels, afin de réaliser notre objectif commun de santé pour tous.

Dr. Stefan Germann

Dr. Stefan Germann is the CEO OF Fondation Botnar, a Swiss-based foundation which champions the use of AI and digital technology to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in growing urban environments.

Stefan was previously Executive Director of onegoalglobal.org (an innovative collaborative child nutrition and healthy lifestyle campaign), and Senior Director of World Vision International Sustainable Health Partnership, Innovation and Accountability unit based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He worked for over 25 years in Africa and Asia in various health leadership roles with different agencies in the area of child health-related development, relief and advocacy work. His worked included managing a large hospital in Zimbabwe.  In 2005 he started to work with World Vision International’s emergency relief team as the director for the integrated technical sector teams in the Asia Tsunami response. This was a complex relief & reconstruction program where he was based in Asia. This program included major health components, including primary health care rehabilitation in Sri Lanka and mHealth projects for midwives in Aceh, Indonesia. He has previously held several board and advisory board memberships, including: Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), UBS Optimus Foundation, REPSSI in Africa, and on the Advisory Board of the Global Health Program, The Graduate Institute – Geneva focusing on the role of NGOs in global health diplomacy. He holds a degree in micro-engineering, an MSc degree in Social Policy & NGO Management, and a doctoral degree in Development Studies focusing on child wellbeing in the urban African context. Stefan finished in 2015 an Executive Master’s program in Tri Sector Collaboration at Singapore Management University.

Dr. Beatrice Murage

Dr. Beatrice Murage is passionate about access to quality healthcare. She is an experienced leader in systems strengthening, healthcare management, digital innovation and exploration ventures. She has successfully built teams and led strategy, policy formulation and project implementation in emerging and established markets. Dr. Murage is currently Senior Scientist at Philips Research and Innovation, India & Africa. She is based within Philips Group Innovation & Strategy and works closely with Philips teams in International Markets, Philips Foundation and Group Sustainability. Dr. Murage serves in an advisory capacity to various industry organizations and coalitions working in entrepreneurship and innovation. They include Digital Connected Care Coalition (DCCC), Transform Health and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Dr. Murage is a medical doctor and she holds an International MBA and Master in Business Analytics & Big Data from IE Business School, Spain.

Thomas Opiyo Onyango

As Living Goods’ Kenya Country Director, Thomas drives strategy, leads the development of the team, and promotes Living Goods to key stakeholders in Kenya. Prior to Living Goods, Thomas was the General Manager for Merck Health Care & Life Science in Kenya, where he focused on team/talent management, business development, and key stakeholder relationships. His experience includes building high-performing organizations from his previous roles leading multinational pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Merck, Thomas worked for Novartis as Franchise Head – English East Africa. He holds a Master’s Degree in General Management from Strathmore University.  

Temitayo (Tayo) Erogbogbo

Tayo Erogbogbo has two decades of combined private sector and international development experience, 10 years of which was spent in the pharmaceutical industry in multiple roles across community relations, government affairs, marketing and sales. As the Director of Advocacy for MSD for Mothers, Tayo is responsible for national and global strategic partnerships and programs to bring about policies and practice changes to improve maternal health care and strengthen health systems, particularly where private sector approaches can be leveraged for greater impact. Prior to MSD for Mothers, Tayo led the establishment of an adolescents and youth constituency at The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) to advocate for better sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health policies and services at global, regional, and national levels. Additionally, he contributed to the development of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health 2016 -2030. Previously, in collaboration with multisectoral partners in Nigeria, he contributed to the passage of the National Health Bill, the development of the National Gender Policy Guidelines and the passage of Violence Against Person's Prohibition in support of gender equality. Tayo also spearheaded Abbott's HIV patient relations function within Europe, developing services to support people living with HIV by partnering with community organizations. He advocated for antiretroviral drug access across Africa and developed a health care professional (HCP) train-the-trainer program that has educated over 3,000 HCPs. Tayo earned a BSc in Management Sciences from Loughborough University, and MSc Information Technology for Management from Coventry University.

Seth Akumani

Seth Akumani has been combining business, technology, and user insights to build and champion impactful solutions over the past decade.  At UNDP, he is responsible for scouting grassroots solutions, building partnerships, and shining light on emerging issues, trends, and innovative applications of disruptive technologies such as AI and blockchain. Prior to his current role, Seth was Director of Business Development and Marketing at GenKey, a biometric technology company, where he was involved in delivering identification solutions for health insurance schemes, social protection programs, and other pro-poor initiatives. Before that, Seth co-founded and led ClaimSync, a health-tech start-up that developed digital health solutions for low-resource settings.  Seth has spent over eight years assessing the viability of hospital management, health insurance, and claims processing solutions in Africa. He is passionate about digital health and has spoken at several venues, including the African Healthcare Summit and the Economist Healthcare in Africa Conference.

Caroline Mbindyo

Caroline is an experienced leader in the fields of global health, innovation, technology, and international development. She has extensive experience in driving complex program deployments in multiple countries, initiating learning opportunities to better inform policy, testing technologies and innovations, and developing new business opportunities through public-private partnerships in emerging markets. She has over 20 years’ experience running and growing entrepreneurial ventures in the nonprofit and commercial space, with a track record of shifting opinions, and applying innovative approaches for profit, social impact, and sustainability. Caroline is a Board Member of White Ribbon Alliance Kenya Chapter and D-Tree International.

Technologies et plateformes numériques pour la CSU

Animée par Amref Health Africa  

Moins de 50 % des Africains ont accès à des structures de soins de santé modernes, et de nombreux pays ont du mal à répondre aux besoins de leur population en raison d'une grave pénurie d'agents de la santé. Face à ces obstacles, l'innovation transforme les diagnostics, les traitements, les prestations, la collecte de données et l'expérience des utilisateurs dans le domaine des soins de santé en Afrique. En outre, la pandémie du COVID-19 a galvanisé le développement de plus de 120 innovations technologiques en matière de santé qui ont été pilotées ou adoptées en Afrique, selon l'OMS - notamment des technologies axées sur la surveillance, la recherche des contacts, l'engagement communautaire, le traitement, les systèmes de laboratoire et l'infection, la prévention et le contrôle. Cette séance mettra en avant la manière dont les interventions nouvelles et innovantes répondent aux besoins émergents ainsi qu'aux défis sanitaires de longue date en Afrique ; elle examinera la valeur des systèmes de données relatives à la santé et la manière dont ils sont exploités pour progresser vers la santé pour tous ; elle mettra en vedette les innovateurs africains et présentera les technologies qui permettent de faire un bond en avant vers la CSU sur tout le continent.

Dr Eva Njenga

Dr. Eva Njenga, MBS, is a well-respected and world-renowned endocrinologist with a vast experience and knowledge in tropical medicine, Social Medicine and Medical Anthropology. She holds a MMed from the University of Nairobi, has a certificate in Endocrinology from the University of New Castle Upon Tyne-UK and is a Social Medicine and Medical Anthropology Fellow at Harvard University. She has been practicing medicine for over 30 years and has worked in several hospitals in the country offering specialized care in diabetes and endocrine conditions management. She has also been a lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s School of Medicine for more than 10 years and continues to share her expertise with post-graduate students in various private university hospitals in the country. She Co- Chairs the NCD Intersectoral Coordinating Committee, sits on the advisory Board of Diabetes Africa, is an advisor of the African Research Universities Alliance, and is a member of the Centre of Excellence in Non-Communicable Diseases, the Kenya Diabetes Study Group, Kenya Medical Association Kenya Association of Physicians among others. She is also the overall team leader of the Ministry of Health Technical Team for Mitigation of COVID19 Pandemic and strengthening of Health Systems for UHC in the 47 Counties in Kenya. She has been very instrumental in matters healthcare in the country, so much so that her exemplary work and commitment has seen her gain recognition and conferred State Honours by HE President Uhuru Kenyatta for her distinguished and outstanding services to the nation and was bestowed upon the title, Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS). Dr. Njenga cares very much about people’s health and is a passionate NCDs champion.

Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti is the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa and the first woman to occupy this position. She was recently confirmed by the WHO Executive Board after her resounding re-lection for the second term. Over the past five years, Dr Moeti has led a Transformation Agenda that is widely acknowledged to have improved the performance and effectiveness of the Organization. She made tremendous progress through the Transformation Agenda, which include improved response capacity to health emergences like COVID-19 pandemic and Ebola virus outbreak. The flagship of the Transformation Agenda has been the successful eradication of wild polio virus in the African region. The Transformation Agenda has since been adopted to inform WHO global reforms

Dr Moeti is a medical doctor and public health expert, with more than 40 years of national and international experience. She has worked with the WHO Regional Office for Africa, where she has held several senior positions, since 1999. Dr Moeti successfully led WHO’s “3 by 5” Initiative in the African Region, which aimed to expand access to antiretroviral therapy in countries. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Moeti worked with UNAIDS as the Team Leader of the Africa and Middle East Desk in Geneva, with UNICEF as a Regional Advisor, and with Botswana’s Ministry of Health in various capacities.

In recognition of her excellent service to humanity, Dr Moeti has received many accolades including an Honorary Fellowship from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. She is a great champion for women in leadership in global health.

Les femmes dans l'innovation : Assurer le leadership, créer des solutions et mener le changement

Animée par la FIIM; Coparrainée par la Chambre de commerce internationale (CCI), Centre mondial des politiques d’innovation (GIPC), et le Conseil d’innovation

L'innovation est cruciale pour identifier les solutions permettant d'atteindre les objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations unies. La mise en œuvre des ODD exige que toutes les parties prenantes jouent leur rôle. En cette Journée internationale de la femme, des femmes issues de divers secteurs, de différents pays et ayant des modèles d'innovation distincts, se réuniront dans le monde entier pour présenter leur parcours et la manière dont elles s'efforcent d'apporter des solutions concrètes. La plupart d'entre elles auront eu un impact dans leurs communautés, à l'échelle régionale et/ou mondiale, en pensant différemment et en suscitant le changement grâce à l'innovation et la créativité. Nous voulons célébrer vos histoires personnelles et souligner l'impact que vous avez eu sur des vies. Et, surtout, nous voulons que vous inspiriez les futurs innovateurs, créateurs, ingénieurs et scientifiques.

 John Simon

 Kanini Muthoni

 David Higgins

 Ruchika Singhal

 Femke Bos

Financement mixte pour la CSU

Animée par Amref Flying Doctors       

L'objectif 3 du développement durable (ODD) - assurer la santé et le bien-être de tous à tout âge - est essentiel pour réaliser des progrès dans le cadre du Programme 2030 pour le développement durable. Malgré les progrès importants réalisés, de nombreux pays africains sont encore loin d'atteindre les paramètres clés en matière de santé et de sécurité sociale, tels que la mortalité maternelle, la mortalité des moins de 5 ans et la couverture d'assurance maladie. La crise du Covid-19 met en évidence la nécessité d'accroître les investissements à long terme dans les soins de santé afin d'accélérer le rythme de réalisation de l'ODD3, au-delà de la riposte d'urgence - mais de nombreux pays africains ont une capacité financière limitée pour effectuer ces investissements, se trouvant aux prises avec un déficit de financement de la santé publique estimé à 66 milliards de dollars par an (FT, 2019). Les capitaux privés peuvent compléter les investissements des gouvernements dans des projets de soins de santé inclusifs. Le profil de risque plus élevé de ces projets exige une combinaison innovante de différentes sources de financement, notamment le capital d'impact sur les patients (fonds propres, dette à long terme), le capital concessionnel et les fonds de donateurs. Au cours de cette séance interactive, nous utiliserons des études de cas concrets pour mettre en évidence différentes solutions de financement innovantes et nous demanderons à différents acteurs de l'espace de financement des soins de santé de partager leurs points de vue respectifs.

Njide Ndili

Ms Njide Ndili is the Country Director for PharmAccess Foundation, an International NGO dedicated to facilitating affordable access to quality health care in Africa by stimulating investments in the healthcare industry through partnerships with the private sector and government institutions. She directs activities that support demand-side financing, supply-side quality improvement using SafeCare© Methodology, and activities to improve access to financing for healthcare small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the Medical Credit Fund. Ms Ndili’s experience in the healthcare industry spans decades in the United States and Nigeria, and she has worked as a consultant to several healthcare organisations. She has an MSc in Health Economics, Policy, and Management from London School of Economics, an AMP from INSEAD Business School, MBA from the University of Houston, Post Graduate Diploma in Finance, and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Nigeria. Ms Ndili is currently serving as a Commissioner for the Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission.

Christian Franz

Mr Christian Franz is supporting the Secretariat of the Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission as Policy and Research Consultant. He is the Managing Director of the data and policy analysis firm CPC Analytics, which is based in Berlin and Pune. In global health, he has worked and published on the commercial determinants of health, the role of banking for health, and on Germany’s role in global health. Currently, he is also facilitating the Community of Practice on ‘NCDs and commercial determinants of health’ for the WHO GCM/NCD. Over the past years, Mr Franz has been affiliated with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), where he analysed the impact of regional disparities on election outcomes and worked on income inequality in Germany. He has a Bachelor’s degree in business administration and economic analysis from Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich and a Master’s degree in public policy from Hertie School of Governance Berlin.

Louise Holly

Ms Louise Holly is supporting the Secretariat of the Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission as Policy and Research Consultant. Since 2018, Ms Holly has worked as an independent consultant supporting a range of international organisations with policy analysis, report writing, qualitative evaluations and advocacy strategy development on issues such as digital health, newborn and child health, HIV, health system strengthening, and children’s rights. In previous roles with RESULTS, Save the Children and UNICEF, Ms Holly acquired over 15 years’ experience of working with civil society, policymakers and intergovernmental organisations around the world to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare, and to promote children’s and women’s rights. She has a BA Hons in Philosophy from King’s College London and an MSc in History and International Relations from the London School of Economics.

 Dr. Ousmane Ly

Enow Awah Georges Stevens, MD is a clinician specialising in sexual and reproductive health, and maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in emergency and post-conflict environments. In addition to his clinical experience, Dr Enow is a leader in advocating for meaningful youth engagement and the role of young people in sustainable development and decision making. Dr Enow is a board member with various international organisations such as CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, Youths Combating NTDs, and Y+ Global representing West and Central Africa. He is an Associate Royal Commonwealth Fellow, African Healthcare Innovator Awardee, YALI Fellow, Obama Fellow, WHO Scholar, African Presidential Leadership Fellow, and Women Deliver Young Leader. Dr Enow studied at the University of Yaoundé; The University of Bamenda; Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration; Le Centre Africain d’Etudes Supérieures en Gestion; and Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).

De la stratégie à la mise en œuvre : sur les chemins des plus jeunes pays du continent vers les transformations numériques dans le domaine de la santé

Animée par Governing Health Futures: The Lancet & Financial Times Commission

La Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission étudie la convergence de la santé numérique et de l'intelligence artificielle avec la couverture maladie universelle (CSU), en mettant l'accent sur la santé et le bien-être des enfants et des jeunes. La Commission recueille des informations sur les différentes approches de la transformation numérique des systèmes de santé, en particulier dans les pays comptant une importante population de jeunes de moins de 25 ans. En 2020, la Commission a mené une étude sur dix pays africains ayant une population jeune (Cameroun, RDC, Éthiopie, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzanie et Ouganda) afin de mieux comprendre les priorités et les activités nationales de renforcement des systèmes de santé numériques, les obstacles à la mise en œuvre et la mesure dans laquelle les besoins et les opinions des jeunes ont été pris en compte dans ces efforts jusqu'à présent.

Cette séance offrira l'occasion à la Commission de présenter les constatations de l'étude et de donner un aperçu des expériences des pays africains en matière d'élaboration et de mise en œuvre de stratégies de santé numérique.

18h05 EAT

Fin de jour 1

(Plateforme de réseautage ouverte jusqu’à 19h00 EAT)



Mardi 9 mars 2021

14h00 – 14h10 EAT

Introduction à la 2e journée

Scène principale

14h10 – 15h10 EAT

Plénière 2: Reconstruire en mieux: Sécurité sanitaire au-delà du Covid-19

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti

Dr Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti is the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa and the first woman to occupy this position. She was recently confirmed by the WHO Executive Board after her resounding re-lection for the second term. Over the past five years, Dr Moeti has led a Transformation Agenda that is widely acknowledged to have improved the performance and effectiveness of the Organization. She made tremendous progress through the Transformation Agenda, which include improved response capacity to health emergences like COVID-19 pandemic and Ebola virus outbreak. The flagship of the Transformation Agenda has been the successful eradication of wild polio virus in the African region. The Transformation Agenda has since been adopted to inform WHO global reforms

Dr Moeti is a medical doctor and public health expert, with more than 40 years of national and international experience. She has worked with the WHO Regional Office for Africa, where she has held several senior positions, since 1999. Dr Moeti successfully led WHO’s “3 by 5” Initiative in the African Region, which aimed to expand access to antiretroviral therapy in countries. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Moeti worked with UNAIDS as the Team Leader of the Africa and Middle East Desk in Geneva, with UNICEF as a Regional Advisor, and with Botswana’s Ministry of Health in various capacities.

In recognition of her excellent service to humanity, Dr Moeti has received many accolades including an Honorary Fellowship from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. She is a great champion for women in leadership in global health.


Dr. John Nkengasong

Dr John Nkengasong serves as Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a specialized technical institution of the African Union. Earlier this year, he was appointed as one of the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoys on COVID-19 Preparedness and Response, and most recently was awarded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2020 Global Goalkeeper Award for his contributions to the continental response in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

Dr Nkengasong is an authority on implementing HIV therapy in resource-challenged areas and a prolific author on the topics of HIV diagnosis, pathogenesis, and drug resistance. Prior to his current position, he served as Acting Deputy Principal Director of the Center for Global Health and Chief of the International Laboratory Branch, Division of Global HIV and TB for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

He serves on several international advisory boards including the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiative – CEPI, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) among others. He has authored over 250 peer-review articles in international journals and published several book chapters.


Dr. Martin Fitchet

Martin Fitchet, M.D., is Head of Global Public Health (GPH) at Johnson & Johnson where he leads an organization fully dedicated to addressing some of the highest unmet needs and healthcare challenges facing the world’s most vulnerable and underserved people. Martin brings more than 20 years of experience as a proven research and development (R&D) leader with a focus on accelerating development and access to transformational innovation for those in low and middle income countries through an end-to-end approach. Under his leadership, the GPH team combines R&D, global access strategies and programs, and local operations to advance the critical solutions that save lives, cure patients and prevent disease for those impacted by tuberculosis, HIV, mental illness and other public health challenges.

Martin has held numerous leadership positions across Johnson & Johnson leveraging leadership and vision in R&D across therapeutic areas. Prior to joining GPH, Martin was R&D and Global Therapeutic Area (TA) Head, Pulmonary Hypertension (PH), for Actelion, a Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson, and previously Global R&D leader for Actelion from Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices. Prior to that, Martin served as Global Head of R&D for the DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, he held scientific leadership positions in Medical Affairs and Research & Development in metabolism and diabetes for Sanofi Aventis and Novartis. Having earned his degree at the University of Nottingham Medical School in Nottingham, UK, Martin became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1995, and later joined the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in London, UK.


Dr. Thandeka Ngcobo

Dr. Thandeka Ngcobo is a charismatic young medical doctor from KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, who beat the odds and continues to bloom wherever she is planted. She is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as an Independent Medical Practitioner and currently practices as a Medical Officer at Rietvlei District Hospital. She completed her matric at the age of 17 and went on to pursue her medical studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal where she graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery.  When she isn’t treating patients she serves as the Corporate Affairs officer at Ngcobo Empire; an Afrocentric multimedia company. Her latest business venture is the acquisition of Maguya Steel (Pty) Ltd; A steel manufacturing company, in which she is the majority shareholder. The company aims to recruit more women into the construction industry. Dr Ngcobo is also a board member of the Godisanang Youth Empowering Foundation, an NPO helping to develop various rural communities and empower other young people. Having been a teenage mother herself she remains vocal about issues of teenage pregnancy and preparations to launch her very own Non-Profit Organization are underway. She is one of the 2018 Top 100 Young Leaders from the SADC region and 2018 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans who are inspiring change and greatness. She would like to be known as one of the young professional women who followed her dreams and made it against all odds, a Medical practitioner who is always prepared to serve beyond her line of duty to inspire and grow Africa. 

 

Greg Perry

Greg Perry is the Assistant Director General at the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Association (IFPMA). He has responsibility for IFPMA’s external outreach and stakeholder engagement in global health topics including innovation, access, and the international regulatory environment. Greg Perry brought with him more than 20 years’ leadership and advocacy experience in the public healthcare arena. Prior to joining IFPMA, Greg worked as Executive Director of the Medicines Patent Pool, which he joined in 2013 and as Director General of the European Generic Medicines Association (1999 - 2013) in Brussels. Previously he worked as a partner in a UK public affairs company as a European Union policy advisor to corporate and non-governmental organizations, and before that as a Parliamentary Advisor to Members of the European Parliament. Greg is a Member of the Advisory Council of the Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA) and is a former member of the Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office (SACEPO). Greg also holds the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland.


Dr. Solomon Zewdu

Dr. Solomon Zewdu is the deputy director in the Africa office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he shapes continental health, nutrition, disease eradication and development investments. Prior to moving to the continental platform, he served as the deputy director in Ethiopia, where he created significant opportunities for system-based investments; built on concurrently identifying, planning and aligning the Foundation’s priorities with the Government of Ethiopia HSTP and the donor community. Given his background in emergency management strategy, planning and response, he also serves as the BMGF COVID-19 coordinator for the African continent, to inform the shaping of critical COVID-19 interventions.  Prior to joining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Zewdu worked both in the private sector and US Department of Defense up to a rank of Lieutenant Colonel - USAF. He relocated to Ethiopia to take the position of Country Director for US PEPFAR program under the joint program of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Scène principale

La pandémie du COVID-19 a révélé comment des lacunes flagrantes dans la sécurité sanitaire et la préparation des systèmes de santé peuvent ne pas empêcher la propagation d'épidémies. Pour que l'Afrique n'ait pas à faire face aux effets dévastateurs d'une autre pandémie, nous avons besoin d'une riposte bien planifiée et intégrée pour améliorer la sécurité sanitaire et bâtir des sociétés saines. Cette séance plénière se concentrera sur la manière dont les gouvernements, les entités du secteur privé, les organisations de la société civile et les partenaires au développement doivent mettre en place des stratégies à long terme, dirigées par les pays, pour prévenir une autre épidémie généralisée et, en fin de compte, reconstruire en mieux après la pandémie du COVID-19. Cette séance plénière plaidera en faveur de mesures concrètes et urgentes à prendre par les gouvernements et les responsables de la santé afin de renforcer les systèmes de santé, de préparer et de protéger les populations contre de futures épidémies ; elle mettra en évidence les stratégies de riposte et de préparation existantes pour atténuer les risques de futures épidémies et mettre en place des systèmes de santé résistants ; et elle invitera les responsables de la santé, les responsables politiques, les organisations panafricaines, les institutions universitaires et de recherche et les organisations mondiales à s'engager à prendre des mesures de préparation et de rétablissement en cas d'épidémie.


15h10 – 15h15 EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

15h15 – 16h15 EAT

Séances parallèles

Ateliers

5-6 séances parallèles se dérouleront simultanément et aborderont une série de questions de santé. Il s’agit de:

Dr Githinji Gitahi

A passionate advocate for pro-poor Universal Health Coverage, Githinji Gitahi joined Amref Health Africa as the Global Chief Executive Officer in June 2015. Amref Health Africa, founded in 1957, is the largest Africa-led international organization, reaching more than 11 million people each year through 150 health-focused projects across 35 countries. Until his appointment to Amref Health Africa, Dr Gitahi was the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, Smile Train International. Prior to that, Dr Gitahi was Managing Director for Monitor Publications in Uganda as well as General Manager for Marketing and Circulation in East Africa for the Nation Media Group. He held progressively senior positions at GlaxoSmithKline and worked at the Avenue Group. Dr Gitahi is co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee, a global World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He serves on a number of Boards, notably - Board of Directors of The Standard Group in Kenya, Board of Trustees of Safaricom Foundation and Governing Board of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and prevention (Africa CDC). Dr Gitahi holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from the University of Nairobi, a master’s degree in Business Administration from the United States International University; as well as a Certificate for Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Management from Harvard University. In December 2018, Dr. Gitahi was bestowed the 2018 ‘Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear’ (MBS) by the President of Kenya, in recognition of his outstanding contribution and commitment to the health sector.

Seth Akumani

Seth Akumani has been combining business, technology, and user insights to build and champion impactful solutions over the past decade.  At UNDP, he is responsible for scouting grassroots solutions, building partnerships, and shining light on emerging issues, trends, and innovative applications of disruptive technologies such as AI and blockchain. Prior to his current role, Seth was Director of Business Development and Marketing at GenKey, a biometric technology company, where he was involved in delivering identification solutions for health insurance schemes, social protection programs, and other pro-poor initiatives. Before that, Seth co-founded and led ClaimSync, a health-tech start-up that developed digital health solutions for low-resource settings.  Seth has spent over eight years assessing the viability of hospital management, health insurance, and claims processing solutions in Africa. He is passionate about digital health and has spoken at several venues, including the African Healthcare Summit and the Economist Healthcare in Africa Conference.

 

Lancement de l’indice de durabilité de FutureProofing Healthcare Africa

Animée par Roche

L’indice de durabilité de FutureProofing Healthcare Africa a pour but d'avoir une vision objective de la performance actuelle des systèmes de santé et de commencer à les préparer pour l'avenir. À l'aide de données accessibles au public, l'indice examine les forces motrices fondamentales de la durabilité des systèmes de santé, compare les approches entre les pays, identifie les éléments qui conduisent à des soins plus durables et promeut les meilleures pratiques grâce à un débat axé sur l'avenir des solutions du monde réel. Cette séance sert de révélation mondiale du premier Indice de durabilité d'Afrique, qui a examiné les données de 18 marchés africains en fonction des principaux signes vitaux, notamment l'accès, le financement, l'innovation et la qualité. L'indice est soutenu par Roche et supervisé par un groupe d'experts indépendants en matière de santé provenant de tout le continent. L'Indice de durabilité de l'Afrique est d'autant plus pertinent face à la pandémie du COVID-19 alors que nous nous efforçons de mieux comprendre la résilience des systèmes de santé face à des chocs majeurs comme celui-ci.

Redéfinir les ressources humaines pour la santé, du laboratoire au dernier kilomètre

Animé par Johnson & Johnson

Le COVID-19 nous a montré que le renforcement des systèmes de santé n'est pas la tâche d'une seule organisation, d'un seul ministère ou d'un seul secteur, mais le travail de tous. La sortie de la pandémie et le rétablissement de soins primaires solides et d'une bonne préparation à la pandémie passe par les effectifs de notre système ; nous tous, travaillant pour eux. Des infirmières et des agents de santé communautaire aux scientifiques de données et aux entrepreneurs, nous devons libérer les capacités et l'ingéniosité des gens dans tout le continuum de la santé - du laboratoire jusqu'au dernier kilomètre. Rejoignez Johnson & Johnson et nos partenaires pour une table ronde sur la manière dont le renforcement des capacités à tous les niveaux de la santé redéfinit les ressources humaines pour la santé au-delà du COVID-19. En compagnie de technologues, d'infirmières et de chercheurs, découvrez ce qui permet de faire progresser le leadership, les compétences et les talents dans toute l'Afrique afin de résoudre les défis à venir dans notre système de santé.

Dr. Parfait Uwaliraye

Dr Parfait Uwaliraye is the Director General for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and Health Financing at the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, a position he has held since November 2012. Dr Uwaliraye is a medical doctor with a Master’s degree in Public Health. He worked as a Research Assistant, a District Medical Officer and the director of Kibagabaga District Hospital prior to joining the Ministry of Health. He has a particular focus health policy, planning, health financing, private sector engagement and global health.

Dr Nneka Orji

Dr Nneka Orji is a policymaker working for the federal government of Nigerian the health sector. She is the Technical Advisor on Health financing, to the Minister of State for Health in Nigeria. She originally trained as a medical doctor and practised clinical medicine for a few years before moving into public health, where she has supervised several projects and travelled to over 25 countries around the world. She is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the Menzies School of Medical Research, University of Tasmania. Besides studying, Dr Orji loves hiking.

Nathaniel Otoo

Nathaniel Otoo is a Health Systems & Public Policy Consultant and a Senior Fellow at Results for Development Institute. He was the founding Executive Director of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC) hosted at Amref Health Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. He has over 11-years of work experience in health insurance implementation and served as CEO of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority from 2015 to 2017. Nathaniel has contributed to and supported numerous global, regional and local UHC activities and events. A founding member of the JLN, and later its first convener, Nathaniel is a member of the Duke University Launch & Scale Speedometer Advisory Board. He also serves on several other boards.

S Pierre Yameogo

S Pierre Yameogo is a medical doctor, public health specialist and Technical Secretary in charge of universal health coverage and One Health at the Ministry of Health in Burkina Faso. He supports the effective coordination of interventions, promoting strategic purchasing mechanisms within the country’s Ministry of Health.

Dr Nkechi Olalere

Dr Nkechi Olalere is the Executive Director of Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) and steers SPARC’s vision of empowering countries with knowledge and practical tools to make access to affordable and quality health care a reality for all.

Nkechi has over sixteen years’ experience in health financing implementation. Before joining the development sector, she served as a C-suite executive in various health insurance firms operating the National Health Insurance Scheme and private health insurance plans in Nigeria. She is passionate about strategic purchasing, especially provider payment reforms, several of which she led in the private health insurance space. Nkechi’s experience in the private and public sectors gives her an interesting perspective into health system strengthening.

Nkechi is the chair of Africa Union’s (AU) Tracker sub-committee tasked with developing indicators and measures of progress for ‘More Health for the Money’. This work is an input into the domestic health financing tracker, which will complement the Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health and enable AU Member States to track progress on domestic financing, including its efficient and effective allocation and use. She has recently been appointed into the newly formed Global Financing Facility Results Advisory Group.

Cheryl Cashin

Cheryl Cashin, PhD, is a Managing Director at Results for Development in the global health practice. In that role she co-leads a portfolio of more than 20 projects and initiatives in global health systems, and she serves on R4D’s executive team. Dr. Cashin has led several initiatives at R4D that aim to build new models of support for countries to address complex health system issues. She designed the Provider Payment Mechanisms technical initiative of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) and has led the initiative since it was launched in 2011, and She is currently leading R4D's technical support to Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) in partnership with Amref Health Africa.

 Oludare Bodunrin

Agnes Gatome-Munyua is a senior program officer at Results for Development where she works on the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator, the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage’s Provider Payment Mechanisms technical initiative and the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center as a technical facilitator on collaborative learning activities. On SPARC she has coordinated the evidence generation activities with the consortium of technical partners including the Strategic Health Purchasing Functional Mapping of purchasing arrangements in nine Sub-Saharan countries.

Achat stratégique en matière de santé: Modifier la conversation

Animé par le Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC)

(2.5 heures | 15h15 – 17h45 EAT)

Deux ans après le lancement de SPARC, qu'est-ce qui a changé dans le paysage des achats stratégiques de santé (SHP) sur le continent ? Depuis la publication du Rapport sur la santé dans le monde en 2000, on a pris conscience que le financement de la santé ne se limite pas au levée de fonds. Au contraire, le financement de la santé a trois fonctions essentielles : la génération de revenus, la mise en commun et l'achat. Néanmoins, les débats mondiaux ont eu tendance à continuer à se concentrer sur les fonctions de génération de revenus. Après plusieurs années de mise en œuvre de divers Achats stratégiques de santé (SHP) en Afrique, il est devenu nécessaire de prendre du recul et d'évaluer l'accent mis sur ces fonctions. Si les fonctions cruciales des Achats stratégiques de santé sont essentielles, les expériences des pays ont montré que les facteurs favorables aux systèmes de santé sont probablement plus critiques pour l'institutionnalisation des pratiques d'Achats stratégiques. Cette séance vise à orienter les conversations autour du SHP dans le cadre de ce qui importe pour que dernier ait un impact dans l'ensemble du système. La séance décrira les lacunes et les défis rencontrés par les pays ainsi que les efforts du SPARC pour générer des preuves et développer l'expertise nécessaire pour combler ces lacunes. Au programme : une discussion informelle avec des décideurs politiques clés, des présentations sur les progrès réalisés en matière du SHP et les expériences relatives au SHP au niveau national, une table ronde avec des décideurs politiques et des partenaires techniques, et un TED talk dirigé par des partenaires sur le SHP.



Lois Quam

Lois Quam is the president and chief executive officer of Pathfinder International, a leader in sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and youth with offices in more than 20 countries. Under Quam’s leadership, Pathfinder has expanded work in West Africa, advanced comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights programming, promoted the transition to country-based leadership that leverages and empowers local expertise, and launched a funding vehicle to support and grow work on women-led climate resilience. Additionally, Quam has established a more than 60-member President’s Council that brings together leaders and experts from around the globe to serve as ambassadors for Pathfinder’s work. Before joining Pathfinder, Quam served as a senior leader in the non-profit, public, and corporate sectors, bringing a lifelong commitment to women’s empowerment, universal healthcare, and the environment in the U.S. and abroad.  Quam was chief operating officer of The Nature Conservancy from 2014 to 2016 and was selected in 2011 by President Barack Obama to head his signature Global Health Initiative at the Department of State. Prior to her work in the public sector, she was the founding CEO of Ovations, a division of the FORTUNE 50 global corporation UnitedHealth Group. Currently, Quam serves on the Board of Directors for the Commonwealth Fund, the Board of Directors for guardian.org, the Board of Directors for Compassus, and the Board of Trustees for the Center for American Progress. She previously served on the Board of Editors of the British Medical Journal and has been named three times to FORTUNE’s list of the most influential women leaders in business. A Rhodes Scholar, Quam has degrees from Oxford University and Macalester College. She speaks English and Norwegian and grew up in rural Minnesota.

Riaz Mobaracaly

Riaz Mobaracaly is Pathfinder International’s country director in Mozambique. He is a proven leader in public health with more than 13 years of experience in the management and implementation of national, provincial, and district level health programs with specific focus on sexual and reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, and HIV & AIDS. He joined the team in Mozambique in 2013 as director of clinical services and assumed the role of senior country director in 2016. Before joining Pathfinder, Riaz spent seven years within the Mozambican Ministry of Health in different capacities and has made substantial contributions to the current status of reproductive health outcomes throughout Mozambique. He has worked hard to develop and increase the technical abilities of staff at the community- and health facility-level, serving as the medical chief officer at district and provincial level for the Sofala Provincial Health Directorate, the director of the Department of Human Capital within the Government of Nampula and the provincial director of health in Nampula.

Prof Joachim Osur

Prof Joachim Osur is the Technical Director, Amref Health Africa. He is Associate Professor of sexual and reproductive health and also the, Dean School of Medical Sciences at the Amref International University. He is a public health, reproductive health, and Sexual Medicine specialist with a wide experience in health programming in the African context. He has contributed immensely in health systems strengthening, health policy development and development of health delivery models that have impacted thousands of lives in various countries in Africa. Among others, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, a Master’s Degree in Public Health, and a PhD in reproductive health; a Membership of the American College of Sexologists and a Fellowship of the European Committee on Sexual Medicine.

Joshua Amponsem

Joshua Amponsem is the Executive Director – Green Africa Youth Organization. He is an environmental and climate activist. He is an Adaptation Fellow at the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the founder of Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO). Joshua focuses on the role of youth in Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resilience Building. He is the lead author of the first-ever background paper on youth and climate change adaptation which provides a pathway for youth engagement in global adaptation efforts. In Ghana, he is leading the Water for Adaptation and Sustainable Communities Project – where he builds the capacity of youth to support community resilience through ecosystem-based adaptation measures, sustainable agriculture practices, circular economy and disaster risk reduction.

 Prof. Afeikhena Jerome

Dr. Onabanjo joined UNFPA in 1995 as a National Programme Officer and thereafter as a Programme Specialist in Swaziland and Kenya, before she served at UNFPA Headquarters as Technical Advisor, HIV/AIDS, and later as Special Assistant to the Executive Director. More recently, she has held UNFPA Representative posts in Tanzania and in South Africa. Before joining UNFPA, Dr. Onabanjo worked for Planned Parenthood as Programme Director and prior to this, she worked for the Ministry of Health in Nigeria.  Dr. Onabanjo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in biology from the University of London and a Medical Doctor degree from the University of Zambia, in addition to a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Climat et santé: Donner aux femmes et aux jeunes les moyens de proposer des solutions climatiques

Animée par Pathfinder International

Pathfinder International s'est associé à AMREF Health Africa pour organiser une séance sur le changement climatique et la santé publique. Cette séance mettra en évidence les principales questions qui se recoupent, soulignera l'action multisectorielle urgente nécessaire pour renforcer les systèmes de santé et abordera le fardeau croissant du changement climatique sur les communautés afin de promouvoir la sécurité sanitaire.

Les soins de santé n'existent pas isolément des facteurs sociaux, politiques et environnementaux qui influencent nos sociétés. Les systèmes de santé ne peuvent être efficaces si nous ne reconnaissons pas les risques et les pressions extérieurs au système de santé lui-même et si nous ne nous y préparons pas. Le changement climatique est l'un des défis les plus imminents pour la santé et le bien-être des populations du monde entier, en particulier en Afrique. Alors que les phénomènes liés au changement climatique augmentent en fréquence et en intensité, il devient plus difficile pour de nombreuses populations d'obtenir les ressources alimentaires et hydriques de base dont elles ont besoin, ce qui accroît leur vulnérabilité aux maladies.

Bien qu'il s'agisse d'un défi mondial, les conséquences du changement climatique touchent de manière disproportionnée les pays à faible et moyen revenu (PRFM), dont de nombreux pays africains. Cette séance mettra en lumière les efforts actuels et les projets de plus en plus nombreux visant à lutter contre les effets du changement climatique sur la santé en Afrique. La séance se concentrera sur l'importance du leadership des femmes dans le traitement des questions climatiques aux niveaux local, régional et national ; sur la défense des jeunes pour la justice climatique ; et sur les questions relatives au changement climatique et à son impact sur la santé et le bien-être des jeunes en Afrique. Les organisations de santé mondiales seront encouragées à rejoindre la conversation pour apprendre comment elles peuvent intégrer la défense, la mise en œuvre et le leadership en matière de changement climatique dans leurs programmes.

William Dekker

William Dekker is the 2019 Winner of the Public Relations Society of Kenya (PRSK) Young PR Professional of the Year. He is an all-round communicator with considerable experience in designing and implementing Public Relations and communication strategies for intergovernmental organizations, government ministries, state departments and agencies, multinationals, not-for-profits, and for-profits. William is passionate about health communication, and the engagement of young people as drivers of action towards the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Dr. Mercy Mwangangi

Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic, Dr. Mwangangi works in the Ministry of Health, Kenya as the newly appointed Chief Administrative Secretary. In this role, she supports the Cabinet Secretary in providing oversight and stewardship in the implementation of Health Sector policies and in building collaborative partnerships with a diverse range of sector stakeholders. Dr. Mwangangi believes in the crucial and catalytic role that health plays in the social and economic development of Kenya, and it is with this affirmation that she put down her stethoscope and pursued a master’s degree in Health Economics and Policy at the University of Adelaide in South Australia in 2015. In addition, Mercy received the Australian Leadership Award, a supplementary fellowship offered to applicants who demonstrate leadership skills and the potential to influence development outcomes in their home country. Dr. Mwangangi, contributed to the design, and implementation of the Universal Health Coverage Pilot program, that form part of the Presidential Big Four Agenda. Having previously worked as the head of the Health Financing Division in the Ministry of Health, her focus in the design of the UHC Program has centered on the health financing architecture of the program and its alignment to intergovernmental service delivery priorities. With an indulgence for analytics and design thinking, Mercy has also contributed to the development of an array of policy frameworks in the health sector, including the Primary Health Care Strategy. She also served as the joint secretary of the Health Benefits Advisory Panel that was commissioned with the design of the Essential Health Benefit Package for Kenya. She is also a member of African Women in Leadership Network (WILN), a forum that offers Australia Awards female alumni a platform to engage in discussions on issues affecting women and to share valuable insights for the advancement of African women. In her role as part of the stewards of the Kenya’s risk communication strategy in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, and an emerging face of solace and resilience, Dr Mwangangi has gained an appreciation for the role that the youth can play in public service as communication and behavior change champions. Using this lived experience, she is in the processes of setting up a platform for the participation of young people in health promotion. Mercy is an adrenaline sport enthusiast having taken to Sky diving and now setting her sights on shark cage diving in Australia. She is also a novice salsa dancer and in her younger days was an amateur diving medalist. She escapes it all by retreating to her tiny-home office, which houses her diverse collection of books ranging from Ganong’s review of Medical Physiology, speeches by Eisenhower, to African Architecture and her favorite, melancholic poetry by Mary Oliver.

Lilies Njanga

Lilies Njanga has over 20 years’ work experience in the development, banking and ICT sectors, 16 of which have been in international development organisations with a focus in the health and education sectors.

Currently, Lilies is the Africa Director at Malaria No More UK. Her immediate past engagement was with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) as the Africa Lead, Strategic Engagement and Communications for CIFF Africa Office, where she also held other roles including leading the Early Childhood Development (ECD) and NTD portfolios.

Before joining CIFF Lilies was with the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network, working in programmes aimed at increasing access to medicines and health services; and promoting rational use of medicines. In the corporate sector, Lilies was with an IT firm, Information Convergence Technologies having started her career in banking with Equity Bank. Lilies is a Board Member of Access to Medicines Platform and Spur Afrika.

Zéro paludisme commence par moi - Tracer la ligne contre le paludisme

Animée par Malaria No More

La campagne "Tracer la ligne contre le paludisme" est un nouveau chapitre de la campagne panafricaine "Zéro Malaria commence par moi" qui appelle les jeunes de toute l'Afrique à se fédérer et à lutter contre le paludisme en menant plus d'actions, plus d'innovations, et en assurant plus de financement et plus de leadership pour mettre fin à cette maladie en une génération et sauver des vies.

 Diana Mukami

Séance sur les innovations sanitaires d’Amref

Animée par Amref Health Innovations

Informations à suivre

16h15 – 16h20 EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

16h20 – 17h20 EAT

Réunions-débats & séances parallèles

Ateliers

5-6 séances de réunions-débats et/ou séances parallèles se dérouleront simultanément et aborderont une palette de questions de santé. Il s'agit de:

Réunions-débats:

Nice Nailantei Leng’ete

Nice Nailantei Leng’ete, 30, is an advocate for the health and rights of girls and women. She is the Global End FGM/C Advisor for Amref Health Africa, the largest African-led international organization on the continent, and founder of The Nice Place, a Leadership Academy & Rescue Centre for girls built in her home community in Kajiado County, Kenya. Ms. Leng’ete is the recipient of numerous international awards for her commitment to working within communities to promote gender equality and end harmful practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child marriage, including: the TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world; the Postcode Hero Award;  the 100 Most Influential Young Africans; the BBC Outlook Inspirations Award; the Annemarie Madison Prize; and, the Inspirational Woman of the Year Award from the Kenyan Ministry of Devolution. She is also a recipient of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders and Women Deliver Young Leaders. To date, Ms. Leng’ete and Amref Health Africa have helped more than 20,000 girls avoid female genital mutilation/cutting in Kenya and Tanzania through community-led Alternative Rites of Passage programs.

Evode Niyibizi

Mr. Evode NIYIBIZI is the current Program Manager for the African Youth and Adolescents Network on Population and Development (AfriYAN Rwanda) affiliated with UNFPA Rwanda.  He is also serving as the national youth focal point at the Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Technical Working Group (ASRH-TWG) of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Rwanda.  He is committed and passionate about advancing Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights for Adolescents and Young people, ending Gender related issues and unpaid care work.

Dr. Julitta Onabanjo

Dr. Onabanjo joined UNFPA in 1995 as a National Programme Officer and thereafter as a Programme Specialist in Swaziland and Kenya, before she served at UNFPA Headquarters as Technical Advisor, HIV/AIDS, and later as Special Assistant to the Executive Director. More recently, she has held UNFPA Representative posts in Tanzania and in South Africa. Before joining UNFPA, Dr. Onabanjo worked for Planned Parenthood as Programme Director and prior to this, she worked for the Ministry of Health in Nigeria.  Dr. Onabanjo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in biology from the University of London and a Medical Doctor degree from the University of Zambia, in addition to a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Réunion-débat: La jeunesse à la tête de l'avenir de l'Afrique : Faire progresser la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs

Animée par le FNUAP

La santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs (SDSR) permettent à tous les jeunes d'accéder à un large éventail de services de santé, dont l'accès aux services et aux informations en matière de santé reproductive, ainsi qu'à l'absence de discrimination. Si de grands progrès ont été réalisés dans le domaine de la SDSR, les groupes marginalisés tels que les jeunes, les populations autochtones, les personnes handicapées et les personnes LGBTQIA+ sont souvent laissés à la traîne. Cette séance ferra des droits, des voix et des choix des jeunes la cheville ouvrière de la conversation sur les SDSR et la CSU, en mettant l'accent sur l'importance de s'assurer que les politiques et les programmes de santé publique tiennent compte des divers besoins des jeunes en matière de SDSR.

La réunion-débat sera une séance informelle de questions-réponses animée par un leader renommé dans le domaine de la santé et des droits sexuels et reproductifs. Le modérateur, un jeune leader, recueillera les questions des participants à la conférence, soumises par le biais du chat interactif de la plateforme virtuelle. La série de réunions-débats de l'AHAIC a pour but de donner aux participants l'occasion de s'entretenir avec un orateur de haut niveau sur leur carrière, leur parcours professionnel et leurs domaines d'expertise et d'intérêt.

Vania Kibui

Vania Kibui is a public policy, human rights and advocacy practitioner with eleven years’ experience, in policy advocacy, regional and international human rights law, advocacy communications, strategic partnerships, and movement building in the global south. She has extensive experience working with state and regional legislative mechanisms, departments of heath, the judiciary, regional treaty monitoring bodies and non-state actors to increase access to essential health care services and the right to health, through critical health care policies, and integration of human rights standards from Regional to Sub-National state implementation frameworks. She is an enthusiastic advocate who believes in the power of public policy and advocacy in improved public health outcomes. She is a skilled facilitator and trainer and is passionate about influencing human rights advancements, through public policy research, and human rights based programming especially through strengthening capacity of the youth to engage with systems and processes that promote and protect the rights of women and girls access to their rights; including the right to access public services and vibrant public participation. She is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, and currently leads the Outreach and Capacity strengthening team at Y-ACT, the youth initiative at Amref Health Africa.

Sobel Aziz Ngom

Sobel Aziz Ngom is the founder and executive director of Social Change Factory, as well as a founding member of the Consortium Jeunesse Senegal (Senegal Youth Consortium), which he has chaired since October 2020. Social Change Factory is a citizen leadership center created in 2014, based on the idea that access to appropriate educational resources and professional development opportunities for young people is the key to their social mobility. 
 Sobel Aziz Ngom is a social entrepreneur who aims to transform the living conditions of Senegalese youth from passive recipients of state-sanctioned policies to active participants in shaping the policies that affect their lives. He conceives and implements local, regional, and continental initiatives, creating opportunities for partnerships with international organizations, including the European Union, UNICEF, and the MasterCard Foundation. These actions aim to empower young people, and have led to thousands of young people being informed, engaged, and equipped with the appropriate skills and values needed to create more inclusive and sustainable communities. In 2014, at the age of 23, Sobel A. Ngom was the youngest Senegalese participant in the first edition of the YALI program launched by President Barack Obama. As a result of being involved in the program and based on his commitment and vision, Sobel A. Ngom has since had the honor of being quoted as an example twice by President Obama. In 2016, Sobel A. Ngom received the Jambar Tech award for "Best Social Entrepreneur" of the year in Senegal for his program Voix des Jeunes (Voices of Youth), which has generated a total of fifteen million viewers across the sub-region. In 2018, Sobel A. Ngom was appointed to the Board of Directors of Generation Unlimited, a global partnership initiated by the United Nations that brings together a number of state, non-governmental and multinational authorities, all committed to the empowerment of young people around the world. Sobel A. Ngom was the only African leader under the age of 30 to serve on the committee. With his experience in areas related to youth development, Sobel A. Ngom has advised governments in Africa, as well as international foundations, some UN agencies, and private companies on their strategies for engaging and collaborating with youth.  Sobel A. Ngom is a graduate in Communications from the SupdeCo business school in Dakar and in Civic Leadership from Wagner College in New York. For the past ten years Sobel A. Ngom has often been invited to represent Senegalese and African youth in forums and major events around the world. While still young, Sobel A. Ngom has already received several national and international awards for his work and contribution to the empowerment of African youth. The most recent one was an invitation from Bill and Melinda Gates to join their GoalKeepers network as "champion" for ODD 4: Quality Education. Prior to founding Social Change Factory, Sobel A. Ngom worked for Ashoka Changemakers where he led the Africa Hub, a platform that brought together a network of over 2000 young Africans whom he helped guide and equip to carry out their missions as social entrepreneurs, while facilitating their access to opportunities for personal and professional development.

Tito Ovia

Tito Ovia is the co-Founder of Helium Health, Africa’s largest health-tech provider, which builds the technology and data infrastructure to make it easier for anyone, regardless of their social class or economic status, to access quality healthcare on the continent. Tito’s childhood dream was to provide world-class care to as many people as she could across Africa. Today, in her role as Head of Public Sector Growth at Helium Health, she is fostering public-private partnerships that accelerate Africa’s transition to a technology and data-driven healthcare system. Her work in African healthcare has helped make her a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a winner of the Future Africa Award for Disruption. When Tito is not working on fixing healthcare in Africa, she is occupied with Feminist Coalition, the women's rights advocacy group she helped found that is promoting equality for women in the Nigerian society, with a core focus on education, financial freedom and representation in public Office. She has a degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Manchester.

Réunion-débat: Participation et entreprenariat chez les jeunes

Animée par Amref Health Africa

Le continent africain a la population la plus jeune du monde - et elle croît rapidement. En 2015, la jeunesse africaine (15-24 ans) représentait 226 millions de personnes ; d'ici 2055, ce chiffre devrait être supérieur au double. Le dividende démographique de l'Afrique offre une occasion unique d'engager largement une nouvelle génération de citoyens à participer au développement et à la croissance du continent. Les programmes dirigés par des jeunes qui visent à engager et à doter les jeunes des compétences nécessaires pour influencer les politiques et les institutions sont essentiels pour exploiter cette opportunité - et pour favoriser des milieux dans lesquels la jeunesse africaine a la possibilité de s'épanouir et de contribuer de manière significative à leurs communautés.

Cette séance de questions-réponses informelle sera animée par un dirigeant et entrepreneur de renom. Le modérateur, un jeune leader, recueillera les questions des participants à la conférence, soumises par le biais du chat interactif de la plateforme virtuelle. La série de réunions-débats de l'AHAIC a pour but de donner aux participants l'occasion de s'entretenir avec un orateur de haut niveau sur leur carrière, leur parcours professionnel et leurs domaines d'expertise et d'intérêt

Dr. Folake Olayinka

Dr. Folake Olayinka is a physician and global health professional with over 25 years’ experience in progressively senior leadership positions. She brings extensive experience in policy and strategy formulation and implementation; and is skilled in program leadership. Dr. Olayinka has led diverse global teams with country programs in Africa, Caribbean, Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asia focused on building capacity of country ministries of health at national and subnational levels. Her areas of expertise include immunization, malaria, HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health. She brings deep passion for primary health care with particular focus on equity and improving health outcomes of women and children. Dr Olayinka is a Fellow of the prestigious Aspen Institute. She is also one of 24 recognized women leaders in global health participating in the first cohort of the WomenLift Health Leadership Journey – an initiative by Stanford University, working to address complex global health challenges by getting more women into senior leadership positions in global health. Dr. Olayinka also serves on several global and regional expert advisory groups including WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE). She has published numerous articles and opinion pieces in Allafrica.com, Huffington Post, World Economic forum; Mail and Guardian- Bhekisisa among others.

Evalin Karijo

Ms. Evalin Karijo is a global health specialist and a strong advocate of youth leadership, especially young women in Africa. She recently won the #Top35Under35 Kenya 2020 award for her leadership role in the health sector. She has over the past 6 years led diverse health initiatives focusing on women, adolescents and youth in the region. She is currently the Project Director of Y-ACT, Youth in Action, at Amref Health Africa – a youth led initiative which promotes Meaningful Youth Engagement in policy processes in the region. She serves on the Advisory Group of the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC2030 as the Alternate Representative of the Global South to the UHC2030 Steering Committee. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Public Health and a Global Executive MBA (Health Leadership & Management). She has received various recognition, including the Management Magazine East Africa for her leadership contribution in the health sector.

Lydia Saloucou

Lydia Saloucou is Pathfinder International’s country director in Burkina Faso. She has nearly 20 years public health experience in reproductive and maternal health and organizational management in Africa. She joined Pathfinder in Burkina Faso in 2015. In her early career, she expanded her field experience in sociological research, focusing on the needs of married adolescents and evaluation of how gender issues intersect with family planning and reproductive health. She studied the management of local NGOs in West Africa and gained important experience in building organizational capacity of reproductive health NGOs in Burkina Faso and other countries. She then transitioned into managing Population Council’s office in Ouagadougou and heading its operations research and development agenda. After eight years, Lydia joined the HIV and AIDS Alliance’s Private Community Initiative, where she organized local organizations in Burkina Faso to liaise and advocate with the Burkinabe Government to integrate family planning activities into the country’s HIV and AIDS program. Lydia then took her talents to the international stage, moving to Kenya to become team leader for the International Planned Parenthood Federation in West and Central Africa. She has a post-Master in education and development, specializing in gender studies and NGO management, with degrees from University of Lille in France and the University of Ouagadougou. She speaks French and English.

Réunion-débat: Le leadership des femmes dans le domaine de la santé

Animée par Amref Health Africa

Malgré leur rôle essentiel dans la santé et le développement de l'Afrique, les femmes restent largement sous-représentées dans les postes de direction sur le continent. Alors que les femmes représentent 70 % du personnel de santé dans le monde, elles ne sont que 25 % à occuper des postes de direction. Cette séance adaptera une optique de genre pour examiner le leadership en Afrique et examinera comment davantage de femmes peuvent prétendre à des sièges à la scène de prise de décision. La séance s'attaquera aux inégalités entre les sexes et créera une plateforme d'échanges sur le renforcement du leadership féminin et l'incitation à agir dans tous les secteurs pour lutter contre les normes et pratiques discriminatoires.

Cette séance de questions-réponses informelle sera animée par des femmes leaders de renom dans le domaine de la santé. Le modérateur, un jeune leader, recueillera les questions des participants à la conférence, soumises par le biais du chat interactif de la plateforme virtuelle. La série de réunions-débats de l'AHAIC a pour but de donner aux participants l'occasion de s'entretenir avec un orateur de haut niveau sur leur carrière, leur parcours professionnel et leurs domaines d'expertise et d'intérêt.

Séances parallèles:

Dr Richard Mihigo, MD, MPH

Dr. Mihigo is a senior public health specialist with over 25 years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating disease control programmes at national and international levels. He joined WHO in July 2004 and is currently the Coordinator of Immunization & Vaccines Development (IVD) in the WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo; a position he has held since 2014. In this position, Dr Mihigo coordinates WHO’s technical support to Member States in the African Region in the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of immunization programmes.  This includes supporting the development of policies, norms, and standards for national immunization programmes including vaccine regulation and research, establishing and strengthening partnership coordination mechanisms between countries and supporting resource mobilization efforts for national immunization programmes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020, Dr Mihigo has been supporting WHO’s response to COVID-19 in the African Region as Deputy Incident Manager and is coordinating WHO’s efforts to support countries’ preparedness and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. Dr Mihigo holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Kisangani, DR Congo and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A national from Rwanda, Dr. Mihigo has worked from 1994 to 2003 at various senior level positions in the national health system of his native country including managing the National Immunization Programme from 2000-2003.

Sibusiso Hlatjwako

Sibusiso is an experienced public health and policy practitioner.  He has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Pretoria, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Witwatersrand University and a Bachelor of Nursing Science. He has expertise in health advocacy, public affairs, public health, communication and reputation management. He has worked as a Public Affairs Director for the Brunswick Group – a global communication advisory firm that helps clients navigate the interconnected worlds of business, politics and society to build trusted relationships with all stakeholders. He has also worked as a Public Affairs Director for the Africa Region at Aeras. He has worked in multiple country projects in managerial positions for more than 10 years. His experience includes working for international and local organizations including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Pretoria, Intrahealth International where he acted as Country Director. He has worked for The Aurum Institute as a Health System Strengthening Technical Advisor and as a Project Director for the Tobacco Taxation Project at the University of Cape Town. Sibusiso has worked on health systems strengthening projects in South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho, Zambia, Eswatini, and Malawi. He is passionate about health equity and advancing health innovations to solve the world’s pressing challenges.

Dr. Karim Bendhaou

Sanjay Gandhi is Vice President at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Vaccines. He is Medical Lead for Gavi eligible countries and Vaccine development work in South East Asia.  He is qualified Public Health Specialist. His professional career spans over 28 years working with different entities like Government, WHO, International NGO (PATH) and Industry, mostly in field of Vaccinology. Surveillance, Clinical Development and Access defines his Vaccine work.  He consider himself to be privileged alumnus of ‘Advance course in Vaccinology (ADVAC)’ organized at Annecy, France by Fondation Mérieux & Université de Genève. He is guest faculty at few Institutes in India and have couple of publications in National and International Journals, to his credit.

Recherche, développement et fabrication de vaccins sur le continent africain

Animée par Amref Health Africa

La coordination et la collaboration de divers partenaires - notamment les gouvernements, les universités, les fondations et le secteur privé - en vue d'accélérer le développement de vaccins sûrs et efficaces contre le COVID-19 en un temps record témoignent de façon remarquable des capacités scientifiques modernes. Toutefois, alors que la communauté internationale continue de faire progresser la recherche, le développement, la fabrication et la distribution du vaccin contre le COVID-19, l'offre de vaccins disponibles est actuellement loin de répondre à la demande mondiale.

L’OMS a constaté que l'Afrique est trop souvent en queue de peloton au niveau des nouvelles technologies et des interventions de santé publique, y compris les vaccins. L'Afrique représente plus de 15 % de la population mondiale, mais bénéficie de moins de 1% de la production mondiale vaccinale. En plus, si la région importe toujours entre 70%-90% des produits pharmaceutiques utilisés en Afrique, la fabrication locale est confrontée à des capacités inexploitées qui peuvent être priorisées face aux pénuries liées à la COVID-19. Il est donc impératif que les dirigeants du continent restent engagés et pleinement impliqués dans l'écosystème mondial de la recherche et du développement.

Face à la pénurie mondiale de vaccins contre le COVID-19, on s'intéresse de plus en plus aux possibilités d'accroître la capacité de production de vaccins en Afrique. Le renforcement des capacités de recherche, de développement et de fabrication de vaccins sur le continent permettra aux pays de répondre à la demande d'autres vaccins et de faire face aux futures pandémies et aux urgences sanitaires. Cette séance explorera les principaux thèmes relatifs à l'avancement de la recherche, du développement et de la fabrication de vaccins en Afrique, de l'accroissement des capacités d'essais cliniques au développement de l'industrie manufacturière naissante. Des experts à la pointe de l'innovation sanitaire sur le continent partageront leurs points de vue sur la manière d'exploiter le COVID-19 pour accélérer la recherche, le développement et la production locales de vaccins en Afrique, sur les défis à relever pour y parvenir et sur les risques d'ignorer cette opportunité.

Accélérer la reprise et la riposte à la suite de la pandémie

Animée par PATH

Informations à suivre

17h20 – 18h20 EAT

Table ronde de haut niveau

Scène principale

Dr Githinji Gitahi

A passionate advocate for pro-poor Universal Health Coverage, Githinji Gitahi joined Amref Health Africa as the Global Chief Executive Officer in June 2015. Amref Health Africa, founded in 1957, is the largest Africa-led international organization, reaching more than 11 million people each year through 150 health-focused projects across 35 countries. Until his appointment to Amref Health Africa, Dr Gitahi was the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, Smile Train International. Prior to that, Dr Gitahi was Managing Director for Monitor Publications in Uganda as well as General Manager for Marketing and Circulation in East Africa for the Nation Media Group. He held progressively senior positions at GlaxoSmithKline and worked at the Avenue Group. Dr Gitahi is co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee, a global World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He serves on a number of Boards, notably - Board of Directors of The Standard Group in Kenya, Board of Trustees of Safaricom Foundation and Governing Board of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and prevention (Africa CDC). Dr Gitahi holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from the University of Nairobi, a master’s degree in Business Administration from the United States International University; as well as a Certificate for Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Management from Harvard University. In December 2018, Dr. Gitahi was bestowed the 2018 ‘Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear’ (MBS) by the President of Kenya, in recognition of his outstanding contribution and commitment to the health sector.


Dr Frederik Kristensen, MD

Dr Frederik Kristensen, MD has been the Deputy CEO of CEPI since January 2017, and took on a dual role as Director for People, Planning and Policy from January 2019. Before joining CEPI he was a senior advisor on innovation at the World Health Organization in Geneva, in the Family, Women’s and Children’s Health Cluster. In that role he focused on projects to promote access to life-saving commodities, supporting projects in 20 African and three Asian countries in collaboration with UNICEF and UNFPA and over 100 implementing partners. He also worked on developing the innovation agenda at WHO and some of its public-private partnerships in the area of Women’s and Childrens’ health. Dr. Kristensen is a healthcare executive with previous experience from the Norwegian Development Agency, hospital management and the pharmaceutical industry. He has started and run successful companies in the areas of health economics and decision support. At the start of his career he worked as a general practitioner in rural settings. He is an MD from the Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and Oslo, Norway and with a MPH/MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley.


Dr. Ahmed E. Ogwell OUMA

Dr Ahmed Ogwell currently serves as the Deputy Director at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) – a specialised agency of the African Union (AU). In this capacity, he works with AU Member States and other partners, leading a team of experts in securing Africa’s health through effective preparedness, early detection and rapid response to disease outbreaks and public health emergencies on the continent of Africa. Dr Ahmed Ogwell has over 25 years of experience in public health as a social and developmental agenda at national, regional, and global levels. He has ably held senior positions in national government, the United Nations (UN) system, non-governmental organisations, and the AU. Dr Ahmed Ogwell previously worked as an advisor to the World Health Organization Director General and worked at the World Health Organisation Regional office for Africa. Dr Ahmed Ogwell is an alumnus of the University of Nairobi School of Public Health and the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen in Norway. He is married with children.


Soumya Swaminathan

A medical doctor and infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr Seth Berkley joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as its CEO in August 2011, spearheading its mission to protect the world’s poorest children by improving access to new and underused vaccines. In its 20 years of existence, Gavi has reached more than 820 million children in the 73 poorest countries. In 2015, Dr Berkley led Gavi to its second replenishment, raising US$ 7.5 billion in donor commitments. In June 2020, Dr Berkley led Gavi to its third successful replenishment, raising US$ 8.8 billion and exceeding the ask of at least US$ 7.4 billion in the presence of 42 heads of state. The ambitious goals for the 2021–2025 strategic period are to reach 300 million more children, preventing an additional 7–8 million deaths and contributing to a further US$ 80–100 billion in economic benefits. Dr Berkley is co-leading the Vaccines Pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, working to develop and distribute a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine globally. In July 2020, Fortune honoured him with a leadership award at Brainstorm Health, calling Gavi “arguably the most productive multilateral health collaboration in history.”  Under Dr Berkley’s leadership, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance received the 2019 Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award for providing sustained access to childhood vaccines in the world’s poorest countries, as well as the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2020. Prior to Gavi, in 1996, Dr Berkley founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the first vaccine product development public-private sector partnership, where he served as President and CEO for 15 years.  Under his leadership, IAVI created a virtual vaccine product development effort involving scientists from low-income countries, industry and academia – developing and testing HIV vaccines around the world. He also oversaw a global advocacy programme that ensured HIV vaccines received prominent attention in the media and in forums such as the G8, the European Union and the United Nations. Previously, Dr Berkley served as an officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation.  He has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; and the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. Dr Berkley played a key role in Uganda’s first national HIV sero-survey and helped develop its national AIDS Control Program. He has been featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine; recognised by TIME magazine as one of “The TIME 100 – The World’s Most Influential People”; and named by WIRED magazine as among “The WIRED 25 – a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks, leaders.” His TED talks have been viewed by more than 2.3 million people, and he has published over 250 articles and opinion pieces. He has consulted or worked in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Dr Berkley sits on a number of international steering committees and corporate and not-for-profit boards, including those of Gilead Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Geneva’s Institute  of Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr Berkley received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University. In 2013, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for services to global public health and advancing the right to health care for all.

Le vaccin contre le COVID-19 et l’Afrique: Où en sommes-nous dans la course aux vaccins ?

Depuis le début de la pandémie du COVID-19, la filière d'innovation en matière de vaccins a progressé à un rythme sans précédent - de la recherche et du développement à l'approbation, la fabrication et la livraison. Malgré ces progrès remarquables - et malgré les appels mondiaux en faveur de l'équité en matière de vaccins - l'accès aux vaccins contre le COVID-19 en Afrique reste limité et constitue un obstacle à la maîtrise de la pandémie. Le Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, directeur général de l'OMS, a mis en garde contre un "échec moral catastrophique", car de nombreux pays riches réservent suffisamment de doses pour vacciner leur population à plusieurs reprises, tandis que les pays à faible et moyen revenu (PRFM) peinent à acquérir les vaccins anti-COVID-19.

COVAX (l'initiative mondiale visant à garantir un accès rapide et équitable aux vaccins anti-COVID-19 pour tous les pays, codirigée par l'OMS, Gavi et la CEPI) est actuellement en voie de livrer au moins 2 milliards de doses dans le monde d'ici la fin de l'année, et devrait fournir 600 millions de doses à environ 20 % des populations des pays africains. En outre, le groupe de travail de l'Union africaine chargé de l'acquisition de vaccins a obtenu 270 millions de vaccins contre le COVID-19 pour les pays africains. Si ces initiatives sont essentielles pour accélérer l'équité et l'accès aux vaccins en Afrique, elles ne présentent pas de solutions à long terme pour résoudre le problème d'accès.

Les vaccins contre le COVID-19 doivent être accessibles à tous, partout, et pas seulement à ceux qui ont les moyens de se les procurer. Cette table ronde de haut niveau mettra en vedette les derniers développements concernant l'accès aux vaccins anti-Covid-19 en Afrique, notamment le rôle du COVAX et le leadership de l'Union africaine, aux côtés des partenaires clés tels que l'OMS, Gavi et la CEPI. Avec la participation de responsables africains et mondiaux de la santé, le panel abordera les problèmes liés à la disponibilité, à l'abordabilité et à la fourniture des vaccins anti-Covid-19 en Afrique, ainsi que la nécessité d'une plus grande collaboration et d'une intensification des innovations pour combler l'écart d'accès entre l'Afrique et le reste du monde.


17h20 – 18h20 EAT

Séance de réseautage orientée

Sylvia Wamugi-Obaga

Sylvia Wamugi-Obaga is currently the Deputy Director of Advocacy, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Y-ACT (Youth in Action), a regional initiative of Amref Health Africa that aims to mentor, support and increase the capacity of youth advocates to influence youth policy and resource priorities in the areas of gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa. A creative at heart, she has led several regional digital advocacy initiatives including YouthPowerHub, Y-ACT movement, and the ICPD Online Caravan.

Sylvia is passionate about social advocacy, communications and women’s right to health. She holds a Masters (Hons.) in International Communications Management (Development) from University of Warwick (UK), and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the United States International University – Africa, with auxiliary qualifications in social & behavior change communications (SBCC), project management, technical writing and photography. She has over 12 years experience in the humanitarian sector, nine of which include leading advocacy communications in various organizations including Save the Children, Oxfam, IPAS and the Advocacy Accelerator. Her adaptability, curiosity and adventure-spirit has led her to work in humanitarian contexts such as Somalia and Sudan, and later in health development with a focus on SRHR.

Fidel Makatia Omusilibwa, HSC

Fidel is a final year student of BSc Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Kenyatta University. Fidel is the lead inventor of the Tibavent ventilator, the first ever African designed and developed ventilator. He is the founder and CEO of AFECS LTD, a technology company. Fidel is also an IEEE Photonics Society volunteer. He is the chairperson of IEEE Kenyatta University Students’ Branch and the student representative at IEEE Kenya Section. He is the team leader of the KUCUBE nano nanosatellite project (a satellite that will be used in the prediction and mitigation of agricultural disasters). Fidel is also the team leader of Electrical team for the digital learning device team (team by ministry of ICT Kenya, to develop tablets for learning in primary schools). Fidel was awarded the 2020 United Nations person of the year- principal innovator award and the UBORA 2020 project of the year Fidel has been awarded the Head of State Commendation by HE the president of Kenya in 12th December 2020. Fidel was born in 30/06/1997 in Kabarnet town, Baringo district. He went to AIC visa Oshwal primary school where he excelled and went to Nakuru High School. In his form 3, he transferred to Friends school Kaimosi boys’ high school where he excelled and joined Kenyatta University for his undergraduate studies. Fidel has a passion on using technology to transform society and has applied his knowledge to come up with solutions for problems in the society. Fidel is also topping his class with a GPA of 76.

Dr MaqC Eric Gitau

MaqC provides strategic and technical direction, team leadership, and membership development in the community of practice that is fostering the advancement of learning in human-centered design (HCD) and adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). He builds upon over two decades of experience working with various stakeholders including philanthropy, media, the UN, governments, and young people in various countries to design and implement high impact adolescent health and youth programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Jenny Njuki

Jenny Njuki is a conversational starter and is known as a firecracker! She is passionate about meaningful youth engagement, youth ingenuity and creativity. She champions the innovation of youth in using technology to solve global challenges and accelerate economic growth in Africa. Jenny has over five years of experience in youth-led programmes. This includes strengthening advocacy for youth inclusion in decision making.

Jenny serves as Advocacy Communications and Partnership Officer for the Youth in Action (Y-ACT) programme with Amref Health Africa. She represents Africa on the Global Youth Council: Tech for Health. In this role, she advises the global coalition on leveraging digital innovation for universal health coverage: Digital Transformation for UHC 2030.

Most recently she was appointed by the Executive Office of the President of Kenya to represent youth and serve on the Generation Unlimited Kenya Steering Committee. Jenny provides strategic leadership and oversight on the initiative to achieve the GenU strategic objectives in Kenya.

Plateforme de réseautage (en concomitance avec la table ronde de haut niveau)

Les séances relatives au réseautage guidées offriront aux participants une plate-forme leur permettant de tisser des liens et d'aborder des questions ou des sujets spécifiques. Inscription préalable requise.

18h20 – 18h25 EAT

Fin du jour 2



Mercredi 10 mars 2021

14h00 – 14h10 EAT

Introduction au 3e jour

Scène principale

14h10 – 15h10 EAT

Plénière 3: Notre santé, notre droit: CSU et redevabilité de tous

Dr. Susanne Weissbaecker

Susanne took on the role as Global Head of Access to Medicines early in 2018 and is leading Takeda’s strategy to enhance access to innovative medicines for patients in underserved communities for complex and rare diseases, while strengthening health systems by catalysing partnerships to drive long-term impact. Prior to this role, Susanne was Head of Patient Access and Services for Takeda’s Europe and Canada business and successfully developed and implemented patient engagement programs. As a physician, Susanne has broad knowledge and experience gained over 15 years in the areas of public health and access. This includes roles at the World Economic Forum where Susanne led the business health and healthcare community as well as in consulting on access in emerging markets.

 
Dr. Anastacia Tomson

Anastacia Tomson is a medical doctor, author, and activist in the field of LGBTQIA rights. A queer-identified woman herself, Anastacia uses her lived experience and professional training to inform her work in educating and spreading awareness around SOGIE minorities. Her activism work sees her engaging with the general public, with parent- or ally groups, with cultural communities, with NGOs and governmental agencies, and with LGBTQIA populations directly. She advocates for improving access competent care for queer-identified people in South Africa. She regularly works with such varied groups as the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights, the UNDP, the South African Judicial Education Institute, as well as regularly lecturing undergraduate medical students at UCT on issues of gender, and SOGIE minorities. Working together with compounding pharmacists, Anastacia was instrumental in driving the process for making injectible estradiol valerate, the international gold-standard for feminsing gender affirming hormone therapy for trans patients, available in South Africa. Anastacia’s globally-available 2016 memoir, Always Anastacia, offers a candid, intimate window into her experiences, with the hope of cultivating understanding, compassion and empathy towards diverse identities. Among her accolades, she has been recognised as a Mandela Washington Fellow, as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans, and as one of The Young Independents’ Mzansi 100. She has also been published in the peer-reviewed, open-access South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, on the subject of medical ethics in gender-affirming care. Experienced both in public-sector healthcare and in clinical trials, Anastacia now offers primary care services in the private sector in her home town of Cape Town, South Africa. When she’s not at work, she can often be found cooking up a vegan storm in her kitchen, or out running on a scenic trail.

Dr. Esther Njoroge-Muriithi

Dr. Esther is Smile Train’s Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, a position she has served for 5+ years. During her tenure, the programs have grown in scale, spanning 40 countries with 254+ partner hospitals and reaching over 128,000 patients; increasing access to comprehensive cleft care while improving safety and quality. Dr. Esther spearheaded the formation of the Africa Medical Advisory Council, formed for the first time in 2019. Through her leadership, Smile Train Africa is now accredited as an International Training Centre for American Heart Association’s BLS and PALS. Responsible for the strategic direction of Smile Train in Africa, Dr. Esther oversees the growth and stewardship of Smile Train’s partnerships and programs across all of Africa. She represents Smile Train on the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) Advisory Group for UHC2030 and has served in Technical Working Groups developing National Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia (NSOAP) plans in Kenya and SADC region. As a passionate global health advocate, she has spoken at several major advocacy events and conferences including UNGA73 side event and the Civil Society Town Hall with WHO DG, Dr. Tedros in May 2020. She was awarded Business Daily’s Top40Under40 women in 2016 and she serves on the board of her Rotary Club. Dr. Esther is passionate about children and their health, an important pillar in her commitment to Smile Train. 

Renée Ngamau

Renée Ngamau is a champion for women and a strong believer in empowerment and inclusivity of all stakeholders, in decisions that affect their lives. She is a Business Leadership Coach at ReneeSense, a coaching and training institute that specialises in helping entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. She is the convenor of SuperCircles for Women in Business. Renée is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. A holder of a Masters in Commercial and Banking Law degree from the University of London, she has practiced commercial banking and business law in Kenya and in the UK.  Renée is a media personality and was the host of Capital in the Morning with Renée and Maqbul, a critically acclaimed weekday morning drive show on the highly celebrated Capital FM radio station. She is an experienced life coach, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and Hypnotherapist with over 9years’ experience in supporting leaders to confidently start and grow successful businesses. Her goal is to train and support one million successful confident Women entrepreneurs on the continent and beyond. She has been Rewarded by the Graca Machel Trust for her work advancing women in Africa and is one of seven African Women in Media Champions. She currently serves as the Chairperson of Amnesty International Kenya.

 
Mah-Séré Keita

Mah-Séré Keita is a global health professional with 17+ years of research, patient care, project development and management experience. Over the course of her career, she has worked primarily on improving disease detection and response in low-resource settings. Keita is currently the Director of Programs at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), and has previously held leadership positions at the Catholic Relief Services -Mali, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). She holds a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology and a Certificate in Health Finance and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in pre-medicine biology from Boston College.

Hon Ms. Marie Rose Nguini Effa

Hon Marie Rose Nguini-Effa is a Member of National Assembly of Cameroon Member of the Pan African Parliament and Member of the Cameroon-France Friendship Group. She is the Chair the National Commission for the fight against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, Vice-Chair of the Social, Cultural and Familial Affairs Committee and currently serves as an Advisory Council Member of the Global Parliamentary Alliance (GPA). Hon. Nguini-Effa is an economist and she is globally recognized as a parliamentary champion. She continues to lead efforts that advance SRHR, UHC harmonization of medical legislation across Africa

Scène principale

En septembre 2019, quelques mois avant que COVID-19 ne frappe le monde, les dirigeants s'étaient engagés à réaliser la CSU dans une déclaration clé qui soulignait le droit à la santé pour tous. Aujourd'hui, avec des millions de personnes touchées par la pandémie, la nécessité de garantir la santé et les droits de tous les individus n'a jamais été aussi pressante. Si nous voulons vraiment réaliser la Santé pour tous, nous devons demander aux dirigeants de se tenir responsables de leurs engagements. Cette séance portera sur la nécessité de renforcer la responsabilité afin de réaliser des progrès concrets en ce qui concerne la réalisation du droit à la santé pour tous. Cette séance plénière demandera aux pays de rendre compte de leurs promesses en matière de CSU et de veiller à ce que les programmes soient conçus pour être à la fois efficaces et financièrement viables ; elle mettra en évidence les pays qui ont pris des engagements fermes en matière de CSU et qui les ont tenus ; et elle examinera les lois sanitaires en vigueur qui soutiennent légalement la CSU et le niveau de sensibilisation, ou l'absence de sensibilisation, des populations quant à ces lois.


15h10 – 15h15 EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

15h15 – 16h15 EAT

Séances parallèles

Ateliers

5 ou 6 séances parallèles se dérouleront simultanément et aborderont une série de questions de santé. Il s’agit de:

Richard Dzikunu

Richard Dzikunu the facilitator for the Young Experts: Tech 4 Health initiative, a platform for young people to shape and guide work towards achieving UHC by leveraging frontier and digital technology. In 2018, Richard received the first-ever Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Action Campaign Award from the UN during the Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Germany. The award recognized Richard's work in empowering marginalized groups (women, girls, young people, and persons with disabilities) to be involved in the SDGs dialogue in Ghana and for influencing the Ghana Adolescent Health Policy and Strategy to meet the demographic needs of young people

Tito Ovia

Tito Ovia is the co-Founder of Helium Health, Africa’s largest health-tech provider, which builds the technology and data infrastructure to make it easier for anyone, regardless of their social class or economic status, to access quality healthcare on the continent. Tito’s childhood dream was to provide world-class care to as many people as she could across Africa. Today, in her role as Head of Public Sector Growth at Helium Health, she is fostering public-private partnerships that accelerate Africa’s transition to a technology and data-driven healthcare system. Her work in African healthcare has helped make her a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient and a winner of the Future Africa Award for Disruption. When Tito is not working on fixing healthcare in Africa, she is occupied with Feminist Coalition, the women's rights advocacy group she helped found that is promoting equality for women in the Nigerian society, with a core focus on education, financial freedom and representation in public Office. She has a degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Manchester.

Honorable Johnson Sakaja

Hon. Sakaja Johnson CBS, M.P is the Senator of the Capital of Kenya, Nairobi City County. He is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Chairman of the Kenya Young Parliamentarians Association, distinguishing himself as an astute legislator and orator addressing the most contentious issues of the Nation. He has served as a nominated MP in the 11th Parliament (2013 -2017) and has been awarded Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear (CBS) First Class by the President of the Republic of Kenya for his extensive legislative work in the 11th and 12th Parliament. Senator Sakaja has co-authored a book in collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ - Kenya Chapter) on Representation and Fiscal Decentralization. He has been nominated among top 100 Future Leaders: The World’s Most Influential Young People in Government (2018) by Apolitica and awarded Change Maker of the year 2016 at the African Achievers Award, in recognition of his leadership skills and youth empowerment in Kenya. The Senator has continually proven that young people have the competency and right to serve as leaders in all spheres, he has championed the right for inclusion of Youth, Women and Marginalized groups in politics and governance.

 Dr. Natasha Salifyanji Kaoma

Dr Shakira Choonara is an award-winning independent public health practitioner, bold activist, renowned public speaker and Operation Smile Ambassador for South Africa (SA). She is a dynamic and budding social entrepreneur, the recent founder of a development consultancy firm. In 2018-2020 she served on the inaugural African Union Youth Council and is presently the AMREF Africa AHAIC Commissioner for universal health coverage. This past year she has also served as the Guest Editor of the Feminist Journal, Agenda published by Taylor and Francis.

Dr Choonara is a recipient of a number of prestigious awards including being listed as the Mail and Guardian 50 Most Powerful Women, Destiny Magazine’s Most Powerful Woman under 40, 100 influential Young Africans and the Woman of the Year in Health in SA. Dr Choonara attained her PhD (Public Health) at the age of 27 years, an Honours (Cum Laude) and Masters in Demography from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

“She is widely recognised for her work and experience in health policy and systems research, specifically universal health coverage, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health rights, non-communicable diseases, HIV and youth development.”

Dr Choonara has spearheaded a range of health projects in research and advocacy across the African continent and is currently working on an impressive list of projects linked to the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization, international and regional non-governmental organizations. Outside of healthcare, she serves on the Board of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, deepening non-racialism in SA, she is passionate about strengthening community level work and as an all-rounder, she is currently pursuing acting classes.

Leadership des jeunes en matière de santé mondiale

Animée par Transform Health

L'Afrique est actuellement le continent le plus jeune. On estime que la population de l'Afrique passera à plus de 2,2 milliards d'ici 2050 (contre environ 1,2 milliard en 2015). Afin de satisfaire les besoins de cette population croissante en matière de soins de santé et d'exploiter le dividende démographique, les gouvernements africains, en collaboration avec le secteur privé et la société civile, devront utiliser les technologies et les données numériques pour transformer les systèmes de santé afin de parvenir à une couverture sanitaire universelle. Dans l'ensemble du continent, les jeunes sont les moteurs de l'innovation dans le domaine de la santé numérique et plaident pour un plus grand leadership et un plus grand engagement des jeunes dans l'élaboration des politiques et des services de santé. Un engagement et des investissements accrus dans l'engagement des jeunes, le renforcement des capacités et la défense des intérêts sont essentiels pour exploiter le potentiel d'un plus grand nombre de jeunes africains afin de réaliser des progrès équitables vers les objectifs de santé et de développement. Cette séance se concentrera sur l'importance de tirer parti des connaissances et du dynamisme de la jeunesse africaine pour façonner les politiques et les programmes de santé dans un monde numérique post-COVID, en soulignant le rôle de plateformes comme Transform Health et Young Experts : Tech 4 Health pour aider les jeunes à influencer le programme de santé numérique ; et comment mobiliser un plus grand investissement dans la jeunesse et les possibilités qui s'offrent à elle pour façonner la transformation numérique dans le domaine de la santé, afin que les pays du continent puissent réaliser la CSU d'ici 2030.

Approches multisectorielles de la nutrition pour lutter contre la malnutrition en Afrique : Enseignements tirés et possibilités d'intégration de la nutrition dans les ripostes liées à la CSU et au COVID-19

Animée par Nutrition International

L'AHAIC 2019 a organisé un événement parallèle sur la nutrition qui a été parrainé par Nutrition International (NI), afin de promouvoir l'intégration de la nutrition dans la couverture sanitaire universelle (CSU). L'événement parallèle a fourni des preuves irréfutables que la nutrition est une composante clé de la stratégie de soins de santé primaires, réitérée comme étant essentielle à la réalisation de la CSU. Parmi les recommandations issues de notre séance, citons la nécessité d'accroître l'engagement et l'action politiques en faveur de la nutrition ; l'élaboration de politiques et de plans multisectoriels qui intègrent des interventions en matière de nutrition pour atteindre la CSU, les Objectifs de l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé et les Objectifs de développement durable. La séance a également préconisé de donner la priorité aux interventions les plus rentables qui peuvent être réalisées à l'échelle par un large éventail de prestataires de soins de santé, y compris les agents de santé. En outre, les parties prenantes de la nutrition ont appelé les gouvernements et les partenaires au développement à promouvoir un financement innovant des programmes de nutrition, notamment par la mobilisation des ressources nationales et l'imposition des aliments malsains pour financer les activités de nutrition.

A l'occasion de l'AHAIC 2021, Nutrition International organisera une séance parallèle sur la nutrition afin de présenter les meilleures pratiques et les enseignements tirés des interventions en matière de nutrition qui ont eu un impact significatif sur les soins de santé primaires et la CSU dans certains pays africains. L'accent sera mis sur les interventions à faible coût et à fort impact. La séance sur la nutrition portera, entre autres, sur des approches innovantes pour lutter contre la malnutrition par le biais d'initiatives multisectorielles telles que la Déclaration de Seqota en Ethiopie, le Projet de nutrition intégrée dans les régions de Kolda et Kédougou (PINKK) au Sénégal et Right Start qui visent plus de 5 millions de bénéficiaires dans 5 pays africains. Ces interventions montrent comment les partenaires de la nutrition tirent parti de partenariats non conventionnels pour faire progresser le programme de santé et de nutrition en Afrique.

Partenariat pour les soins primaires : Transformer la prestation des soins de santé primaires publics

Animée par Amref Flying Doctors

 Natasha Sunderji

 Dr. Andrew Mulwa

 Dr. Catherine Kanari

 June Omollo

 Karnika Yadav

 John Ponsonby

Selon l'Organisation mondiale de la santé, le renforcement des soins primaires est le moyen le plus efficace, le plus juste et le plus rentable d'obtenir des résultats sanitaires. En outre, conformément à la Vision 2030 de l'OMS et aux objectifs de développement durable des Nations unies, le président kenyan Uhuru Kenyatta a fait de la couverture sanitaire universelle l'un de ses "quatre grands" objectifs.

Le partenariat pour les soins primaires (P4PC) est le premier modèle de partenariat public-privé (PPP) pour les soins primaires en Afrique. En tirant parti de capacités complémentaires et en partageant les risques et les responsabilités, Amref Health Africa, le gouvernement du comté de Makueni, au Kenya, et Philips visent à transformer le système de soins de santé primaires d'une manière financièrement viable. L'approche est holistique et systémique et vise à la fois la demande et l'offre de soins primaires. En outre, un système de financement durable et une gestion solide du système sont mis en place. Ensemble, ces leviers cruciaux génèrent une boucle d'auto-renforcement, par laquelle l'amélioration de la qualité entraîne une augmentation de la demande, qui à son tour entraîne une augmentation du financement, ce qui augmente encore la qualité. Cette séance donnera un aperçu des résultats de l'étude de faisabilité, de la manière dont les partenaires prévoient de mettre le modèle à l'échelle et la façon dont le partenariat public-privé visé est structuré.

Emmanuel Lubanzadio

Emmanuel Lubanzadio is the Head of Public Policy, Government & Philanthropy for Sub-Saharan Africa on Twitter's Public Policy EMEA Team. Twitter Public Policy focuses on policy issues posed by the continuing spread of digital technology and web-based communications services around the world. These issues range from freedom of expression, online safety, copyright, privacy, and Internet freedom. In the context of civic events such as elections, Public Policy ensures that political actors find a natural home on Twitter. The Policy team also manages and directs Twitter’s corporate social responsibility work by collaborating with NGOs active in the areas of freedom of expression, online safety, and emergency disaster recovery.

 Prior to joining Twitter, Emmanuel spent his professional tenure in the realm of International Development, and Government Relations in Germany, Ghana, and the U.S. He holds a B.A. in International Relations, a Graduate Certificate in Applied Politics and a M.A. in International Development.

Elizabeth (Lizz) Ntonjira

Lizz Ntonjira is currently the Global Director of Communications at Amref Health Africa, the largest health development organization in Africa. In her role, she leads and mentors a capable communications team responsible for program communications, institutional messaging and offers strategic guidance for Africa, Europe and North America communication teams. She is also a youth advocate and the author of the book #YOUTHCAN, a collection of powerful, inspiring and challenging stories from youth breaking barriers across 22 African countries. For her work across various sectors, she has received numerous awards including being listed as one of the 100 Most Influential Young Africans.  Lizz is committed to changing the African narrative by showcasing compelling stories that reflect Africa’s improving development agenda. Lizz holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, a post graduate Professional Diploma in Public Relations from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from Strathmore Business School. She is also a Public Policy Fellow from Virginia Commonwealth University in the US, and a recipient of former US President Barack Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (2015).

 
Rachel Onamusi

Rachel Onamusi is the founder of VN Sync, a full-service digital agency with expertise in all aspects of digital media, with special focus on strategy development, implementation and facilitation. Her projects have ranged from marketing consulting, market research, corporate & personal brand management, product & campaign launch, political campaign media and PR, publicity strategy development and management, to technology training and certification platforms’ management. An accomplished digital media strategist and growth facilitator for major corporate global brands, Ms. Onamusi’s extensive experience has a global reach and covers both the private and public sectors. Having served clients in USA, Europe and Africa, Rachel’s passion remains supporting and driving efforts that create a lasting impact in education, health, and sustainable development. Ms. Onamusi is a graduate in Psychology from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Jackie Opara

Jackie is a Nigerian science journalist and is responsible for coordinating correspondents and coverage including the Africa Science Focus podcast from Sub-Saharan Africa for SciDev.Net. She is English-speaking and won the IDRC Science Journalism Internship award in 2014. Jackie coordinates the affairs of the Nigerian Association of Science Journalists (NASJ). As a journalist, her works have been published in various parts of the world including Africa, South Africa and the UK. She has a profound interest in science journalism and science communication, she dedicates her time to speak to universities and their vice-chancellors in Nigeria on the importance of science communication. She also moderates conference sessions, one of which is moderating at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2020) on ‘Agriculture on the front line, what the world can learn from African Scientists’

Ian Wafula

My name is Ian Wafula, a Journalist by profession currently working for BBC Africa where I host and report for The Breakdown a COVID9 special programme. I began my journey into the profession in 2012 when I joined Shine FM; Daystar University’s community radio station. I later joined KTN for my internship in August 2013 and was employed as a Reporter in 6 months. I began working under the investigations desk where I produced exposes like ‘Terror Foretold’ that exposed laxity amongst the security personnel in Garissa County leading a terror attack that left 147 people dead. The entire security team was indicted following the report. I then joined K24 in 2015 where I hosted the breakfast show Alfajiri, a news, current affairs and lifestyle show. I went on to cover Kenya’s 2017 general elections and the presidential re-run in the same year under the ‘The Daily Brief’ a daytime live news and current affairs show. I joined the BBC in 2018; I was assigned to host, produce and report for Fact Finder a media literacy and fact checking show. My experience at Fact Finder led me to find my purpose in February 2020 when started Heal The Web an initiative that aims at raising awareness on internet vices while promoting better use.

Dr. Theresa Ifeoma Amobi

Dr. Theresa Ifeoma Amobi has a PhD in Health Communication, Master of Science degree in Mass Communication, Master’s degree in Public Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she teaches Multimedia and Online Journalism, Broadcasting and Film, International Communication, Social Science Research and Theories of Communication. She also teaches Health Communication at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos. Dr. Amobi also teaches Consumer Behaviour and Social Science Research at the Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria, where she is an adjunct Lecturer. Her research interests include Health Mis/Disinformation and Conspiracy theories, Media and Gender, Nollywood Film Industry, International Communication, among others. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Africa Check, Fullfact and Chequeado; an Independent Researcher for Africa Check and other international agencies; and a member of the African Movies Academy Awards AMAA College of Screeners since 2014.

Une communication efficace pour lutter contre la désinformation en matière de santé

Animé par Amref Health Africa

Avec la croissance rapide de l'utilisation des technologies mobiles en Afrique, ainsi que l'essor des médias sociaux, l'information peut se répandre plus rapidement que jamais. Si l'amélioration de l'accès à la téléphonie mobile et à la communication numérique a eu de nombreux avantages, elle a aussi entraîné des inconvénients. Par exemple, dans notre monde de plus en plus interconnecté, la pandémie du COVID-19 s'est accompagnée de désinformation et de rumeurs sur la maladie - notamment sur son origine, sa transmission, sa prévention, ses symptômes et sa propagation. Depuis le début de la pandémie, la désinformation sur le COVID-19 s'est rapidement propagée dans les communautés en Afrique et dans le monde entier. Cette séance abordera la nécessité de lutter contre le scepticisme et la désinformation en matière de santé à l'aide d'informations convaincantes et fondées sur des preuves ; elle mettra en évidence les défis ainsi que les stratégies efficaces pour lutter contre la désinformation ; et renforcera l'importance des communications ciblées pour sensibiliser sur les principaux problèmes de santé.

Ethel Makila

Ethel Makila is the Associate Director for Advocacy Policy and Communications at IAVI. She is responsible for designing and implementing innovative political, policy and science advocacy initiatives aimed at enhancing the environment for global health research and development; and leading communications initiatives related to IAVI’s Africa region programs. A seasoned science and development communication expert, she has over 10 years’ experience in stakeholder engagement for both profit and non-profit agencies in the development, agricultural research, and global health field. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Nairobi, is currently pursuing a Master of Public Policy and Management at the Strathmore University in Kenya.

 
Thabani Maphosa

Thabani Maphosa is Gavi’s Managing Director of Country Programmes, overseeing Gavi’s operations in 73 countries. The Country Programmes Department’s raison d'être is to harness the power of the Vaccine Alliance for countries to save the maximum number of lives through immunization. This is achieved through maximizing financial investments (donor and domestic), bringing the best partners to the table and driving innovative solutions. The Country Programmes Department manages Gavi’s relationships with governments and provides grant management oversight for all in-country resources. Prior to joining Gavi, Thabani held several leadership roles in World Vision International for over 16 years. Thabani is a seasoned humanitarian who has led disaster preparedness and response efforts globally. He is also recognised for introducing the use of technology in the last mile and not least for scaling up cash transfers in stable and fragile contexts. With a Master of Philosophy degree in Science, Thabani has worked in academia as a lecturer in physiology and microbiology.

 
Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija

Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija is the founder of the Nexus Hub, an innovation centre, research, social development and emergency response unit for the West Africa/Sahel region headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. She is currently Chair of the Africa Union Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance (AVDA), serves on the Global advisory board of WomenLift health and is Chief Strategist CONVINCE Africa. Dr. Alakija is former Chief Humanitarian Coordinator for the government of Nigeria and led the joint national and international Humanitarian response in the Lake Chad region between 2016-2019.

 Maysoon Loulou

Dr. Mugambi Joy is the Secretary General World Organization for Family Physicians (WONCA) Africa Region. She is the Vice President Commonwealth Medical Association East/Central/South Africa Region. Dr. Mugambi is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Family Medicine Kabarak University, Nakuru, Kenya. She is the Immediate Past Assistant Secretary General Kenya Medical Association. She has served as a medical superintendent at Eldama Ravine.  Dr. Mugambi serves in various government and non-state boards, has been the Patron Medical Students Association Kenya (MSAKE) she is the Director Comprehensive Advanced Life Support for Rural an organization that aims at training health workers working on emergency response in rural areas. In response to the Covid19 pandemic she served as Vice Chair of the Kenya Medical Association Covid19 Response Advisory Committee (CRAC), she is serving as a Member of the National Response Covid19 Mental Health Sub-committee and was part of the team that implemented a National health workers mental health program. Dr. Mugambi is also trained and certified on vaccinology by East Africa Center for Vaccine and Immunization (ECAVI). Dr. Mugambi is one of the first Kenyan trained female Family Physicians from Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. She is passionate about Quality Primary HealthCare, Community engagement, Health Equity and Planetary health. On her free time she loves hiking, bird watching and farming.

Réticence et absorption relatives au vaccin

Animée par Amref Health Africa

La propagation mondiale du COVID-19 s'est accompagnée d'une prolifération de fausses informations sur le virus. En février 2020, l'OMS a mis en garde contre l'émergence d'une: « infodemie: » une surabondance d'informations – certains précis et d'autres pas - ce qui rend difficile de trouver des sources dignes de confiance et des conseils fiables quand les gens en ont besoin". Parmi les fausses informations largement répandues autour du COVID-19, on trouve des théories de conspiration et des mythes sur les traitements non avérés, les faux remèdes et les messages anti-vaccins. En cas d'urgence sanitaire, ces informations erronées sapent les efforts déployés pour mettre fin à l'épidémie et menacent la sécurité des intervenants d'urgence. Les messages anti-vaccins touchent souvent de manière disproportionnée les communautés vulnérables ou marginalisées, et la réticence à l'égard du vaccin contre le COVID-19 risque d'avoir un impact sur l'acceptation et l'utilisation de ces vaccins. Les gouvernements, les responsables de la santé publique, la société civile, le secteur privé et tous les partenaires doivent être prêts à s'attaquer au problème de la réticence à se faire vacciner, notamment les préoccupations ou les idées fausses propres au pays et au contexte. Cette table ronde mettra en lumière les efforts déployés dans toute l'Afrique pour contrer les réticences à l'égard des vaccins et encourager l'adoption des vaccins anti-COVID-19, notamment les stratégies et les expériences d'engagement communautaire, ainsi que l'importance de renforcer la confiance dans les vaccins et la vaccination au-delà du COVID-19.

4:15pm – 4:20pm EAT

Pause / Intermède créatif

Des intermèdes créatifs permettront d'explorer les questions de santé urgentes d'une manière unique et convaincante et apporteront un élément humain à l'événement virtuel. Les intermèdes comprendront des performances artistiques telles que de la musique et de la poésie orale, des vidéos et des sondages d’interaction avec le public.

4:20pm – 5:20pm EAT

Séances parallèles

Ateliers

séances parallèles se dérouleront simultanément et aborderont une série de questions de santé. Il s’agit de:

Patricia Karani

Born 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya – currently residing in Nairobi.

Holds a university degree in Sociology and Economics as well as a higher advanced diploma in Human Resource Management; has 10 years’ experience in the Human Resource Management field and is currently working in the food and hospitality industry.

Diagnosed when she was about 18 or 19 years old after her first facial swell almost 10 years earlier.

Other HAE patients in her family: Grandmother (died from an HAE-related swelling to her neck), father, and two brothers.

Eda Selebatso

Eda Selebatso is a mother of four children, two of whom have rare conditions. Eda founded Botswana organisation for Rare Diseases (BORDIS) with her husband after experiencing the challenges that families affected by rare diseases in Botswana deal with. Eda is the current Chairperson of BORDIS. She holds a PgD in Project Management and a BSc in Biology and Chemistry. Eda is passionate about human development issues. Her career spans about two decades in the health, conservation, education and mining sectors. During her career she has supported organisations achieve their business goals. She is experienced in project management, PMO management and support, stakeholder management, risk management, quality management, Programme management, Strategic management, sustainable development, business continuity management, health and environmental management, performance management among others. Eda has led and contributed to several flagship innovations in her country in her career. Her career was interrupted in 2014 when she resigned to take care of her children and support them through their health challenges. She continues to apply her skills as a pioneer in rare diseases in Botswana and globally. She serves in different global rare diseases organisations like UN NGO committee for Rare Diseases, Rare Diseases International, International Gaucher Alliance, International MPS Network and International Rare Diseases Research Consortium. She believes a person with a rare condition is equally worthy of life as any human being, and has potential to contribute to society. Eda is currently working on different programs to address health inequities and social injustices that rare disease patients and their families are faced with daily.

Waihiga Mwaura

Waihiga Mwaura is an award-winning Kenyan journalist and Special Projects Editor and news-anchor at Citizen TV in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the 2018 BBC Komla Dumor award winner, 2015 Mohammed Amin Africa award winner and a 3-time Media Council of Kenya AJEA nominee. He has moderated panel discussions on varied topics in Nairobi, Lagos, and London for Citizen TV, the London School of Economics, World Bank and BBC, among others.

Dr Priya Balasubramaniam

Dr. Priya Balasubramaniam is a public health professional with over 20 years of experience in large scale implementation research, education and program planning in academic, non-profit and government settings. Her interests and expertise are in public policy, health systems strengthening, universal health, role of the private sector in health and health technology innovation directed at strengthening health systems in low and middle-income countries. She has a multi-disciplinary background and has assisted in shaping health system capacity and research in India, Southeast Asia, East Africa, the United States and Canada with demonstrated success with field-based mandates as well as in strategic program development roles in developed and emerging heath markets. She is director of the Centre of Sustainable Health Innovations, Singapore/India and co-founder of the tripartite- Innovation for Universal Health Collaborative to initiate south-south dialogues around leveraging low-cost technological innovations and new models of healthcare in Asia and Africa. She is also co-founder of the Mutual Learning Platform for Mixed Health Systems that convenes the private sector and public health stakeholders for evidence sharing and building   interventional capacity for stronger health systems. In her current position as Senior Public Health Scientist at the Public Health Foundation of India, she directs the Universal Health Coverage Initiative (www.uhcindia.org), one of India’s seminal health policy exercises on health system reform and co-authored the Government of India’s High Level Expert Group recommendations on universal health coverage as part of the country’s 12th Five Year Plan.  Dr. Balasubramaniam’s other projects at include developing a research agenda for Urban Health in the region (spanning social innovation, governance and public-private sector collaborations in health). She also spearheads projects around health services delivery that includes a partnership with the Consortia of Affordable Technologies (CamTech) which mentors and seed-funds early stage social impact health innovations in Asia and Africa and the Grand Challenges Grant winner, the Biodiaspora Partnership that tracks and models infectious and vector borne disease through human movement patterns. She has also been a frequent advisor on health systems and policy to numerous multi-bi lateral organisations including WHO, IDRC Canada, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, DfID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Balasubramaniam has authored several reports, policy briefs as well as peer-reviewed publications over her career as both a clinician and researcher. She works closely with municipal and state governments and served on a taskforce on Primary Healthcare constituted Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is member of the Technical Review Groups on Urban Health constituted by the Ministry of Urban Development. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Health Governance, series editor- Globalization and Health and is regional editorial advisor of Oxford University Press’s Healthy Cities and Communities Encyclopedia. She is frequent advisor on health systems and policy to numerous multi-bi lateral organisations including WHO, IDRC Canada, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, DfID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Dr. Balasubramaniam holds visiting faculty positions at the National University of Singapore and the Keenan Research Centre, St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She is also a Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy, at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. She has authored several reports, policy briefs as well as peer-reviewed publications over her career as both a clinician and researcher. She serves on a taskforce on Primary Healthcare constituted Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is member of the Technical Review Group on Urban Health Planning formed the Ministry of Urban Development in addition. Dr. Balasubramaniam’s academic background includes degrees in Public Policy and Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, International Health from the University of Texas Health Science Centre, Houston and training in Dental Public Health and Dentistry from the University of Toronto and University of Madras, India.

Dr. Susanne Weissbaecker

Susanne took on the role as Global Head of Access to Medicines early in 2018 and is leading Takeda’s strategy to enhance access to innovative medicines for patients in underserved communities for complex and rare diseases, while strengthening health systems by catalysing partnerships to drive long-term impact. Prior to this role, Susanne was Head of Patient Access and Services for Takeda’s Europe and Canada business and successfully developed and implemented patient engagement programs. As a physician, Susanne has broad knowledge and experience gained over 15 years in the areas of public health and access. This includes roles at the World Economic Forum where Susanne led the business health and healthcare community as well as in consulting on access in emerging markets.

Ursula Myles

Ursula took on the role as Country Head for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa cluster countries in 2020, with a focus on broadening access to Takeda’s innovative medicines for patients with rare and complex diseases. To enhance access by partnering with various stakeholders and strengthening the healthcare system for long-term impact is essential.

Ursula has spent 22 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with 14 years spent outside of South Africa working in global and regional roles in Switzerland responsible for new product launches enabling a broad understanding of healthcare systems, reimbursement mechanisms and country specific challenges impacting health care outcomes.

As a nursing sister by profession and having worked in community medicine and palliative care, witnessing how a lack of disease awareness, limited or no access to innovative treatments and poor or non-existent after care services can negatively impact the lives of patients and their families, she is passionate about enabling change to improve the lives of patients and their families.

Maladies rares - le cas de l'inclusion dans le dialogue pour faire avancer l'Afrique vers la CSU

Animée par Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Takeda estime que l'accès aux soins de santé, aux médicaments et aux vaccins devrait être universel. Cependant, dans le monde entier, de nombreuses personnes n'ont pas accès aux services et aux traitements dont elles ont besoin. Les maladies complexes et rares sont difficiles à diagnostiquer, à traiter et à prendre en charge. Elles présentent des défis importants en termes de niveaux de capacité et de ressources nécessaires à la prévention, à l'éducation et à la sensibilisation, ainsi qu'en termes de compétences cliniques spécialisées nécessaires au dépistage, au diagnostic et au traitement des patients. Les maladies complexes et rares présentent souvent des obstacles plus importants en termes d'accessibilité financière. Elles peuvent nécessiter des médicaments très innovants, souvent sans alternative, et le traitement peut durer toute la vie. L'amélioration de l'accès aux médicaments innovants pour les maladies complexes et rares présente un défi et nécessite une action collective. Elle doit être abordée de manière durable et ciblée, afin de renforcer et de transformer les systèmes de soins de santé, à chaque étape du parcours du patient - de la sensibilisation et du diagnostic au traitement et au soutien continu du patient. Cette séance permettra de discuter des maladies complexes et rares, et de plaider en faveur de leur inclusion dans le programme de la CSU d'Afrique.

Prof. Shabir Moosa

Prof Shabir Moosa is a family physician with an MBA and PhD. He has extensive experience in rural general practice and the development of family medicine and primary care services in both rural and urban district health services in South Africa and Africa. Shabir is deeply involved in development and research around family medicine and Community-Oriented Primary Health Care (COPC) in Johannesburg, Gauteng and Africa. He is the President of the African of WONCA (World Organisation of Family Doctors) and facilitator of AfroPHC, bringing African PHC team leaders together to advocate for PHC and UHC.

De l'attention à l'action sur les systèmes de santé : Permettre la responsabilisation au niveau des soins de santé primaires à la suite de la COVID-19 Animée par PHCPI

La pandémie COVID-19 a mis en vedette sans précédent la nécessité d'élaborer des politiques et des systèmes de santé qui répondent efficacement aux besoins des personnes les plus touchées. La garantie d'un investissement dans les soins de santé primaires (SSP), qui répondent à la majorité des besoins de santé de la population à tout âge et à chaque étape de la vie, doit être au cœur de ces efforts. Dans le contexte du déploiement du vaccin contre le COVID-19 et de la reprise de la pandémie, cette séance explorera les moyens par lesquels les défenseurs des pays peuvent efficacement tirer parti de l'attention mondiale sur la prestation des soins de santé pour tenir les gouvernements responsables de la qualité des systèmes de soins de santé primaires. Les orateurs discuteront de la manière d'utiliser les données et les mesures pour la défense des intérêts, partageront les stratégies pour s'engager auprès des organes de décision mondiaux et nationaux et mettront en avant les tactiques de communication efficaces pour catalyser les investissements essentiels dans les soins de santé primaires pendant et après la pandémie.

Dr Lola Dare

Lola Dare is an award-winning community physician, epidemiologist, public health practitioner, development consultant, sociopreneur and irrepressible global health advocate for women, girls, young persons. She champions application of evidence and data for policy, evaluation, and accountability demand functions of non-state actors including civil society and community-based organizations, private sector, and the media. Lola is in the forefront of advocacy for resilient, accountable right based health care services and systems strengthening driven by the PHC approach. She engages policy makers, parliamentarians, donor-funded programmes and national governments including bilateral, multilateral, and intergovernmental organizations. Lola has nimbly linked investments in health to social protection, with resultant multi-sector actions for large scale impact.

Lola, an innovative thought leader whose impact on global health development is expansive has served in governance mechanisms of major initiatives and is currently a member of the Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB), Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria. In recognition of her competence and knowledge of much needed country context to development dialogues, Lola has been awarded membership of the UK Based Game Changers Women’s Leadership network with recognition on its Wall of Wonder Women. She is President of Chestrad Global, a trail-blazing global social enterprise with network members in Africa, Europe and the Americas. Lola Dare is well published beyond her immediate spheres of influence.

Shehnaz Munshi

Shehnaz (MPH) is a health policy and systems researcher and activist with a particular interest in feminist, decolonial scholarship and praxis. She is also an occupational therapist with 10 years of experience serving vulnerable and marginalised communities in South Africa and the UK. She is the cofounder of African Health Futures, an initiative aimed at re-imagining health systems drawing on transformative, indigenous, feminist approaches to achieve health equity and social justice. Currently Shehnaz manages the Sheiham Family/Wits Programme on social determinants of health and health inequality at the School of Public Health, Wits University. She was also a researcher on a behaviour change intervention study called the 'Sonke CHANGE Trial’, which sought to determine the effectiveness of a multi-level gender-transformation model in preventing men’s use of violence against woman and girls. She is a senior Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at Tekano, and was named an Emerging Voices for Global Health in 2018. Shehnaz serves on the steering committee of the People’s Health Movement, a global network of grassroots health activists, civil society organisations and academics committed to advocating for affordable, accessible, equitable health for all. Her research, policy engagement and activism has focused on strengthening the implementation of a community health worker policy and primary health care re-engineering policy in an NHI context.

Dr Nkechi Olalere

Dr Nkechi Olalere is the Executive Director of Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) and steers SPARC’s vision of empowering countries with knowledge and practical tools to make access to affordable and quality health care a reality for all.

Nkechi has over sixteen years’ experience in health financing implementation. Before joining the development sector, she served as a C-suite executive in various health insurance firms operating the National Health Insurance Scheme and private health insurance plans in Nigeria. She is passionate about strategic purchasing, especially provider payment reforms, several of which she led in the private health insurance space. Nkechi’s experience in the private and public sectors gives her an interesting perspective into health system strengthening.

Nkechi is the chair of Africa Union’s (AU) Tracker sub-committee tasked with developing indicators and measures of progress for ‘More Health for the Money’. This work is an input into the domestic health financing tracker, which will complement the Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health and enable AU Member States to track progress on domestic financing, including its efficient and effective allocation and use. She has recently been appointed into the newly formed Global Financing Facility Results Advisory Group.

3:15pm –
Prof Joachim Osur

Prof Joachim Osur is the Technical Director, Amref Health Africa. He is Associate Professor of sexual and reproductive health and also the, Dean School of Medical Sciences at the Amref International University. He is a public health, reproductive health, and Sexual Medicine specialist with a wide experience in health programming in the African context. He has contributed immensely in health systems strengthening, health policy development and development of health delivery models that have impacted thousands of lives in various countries in Africa. Among others, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, a Master’s Degree in Public Health, and a PhD in reproductive health; a Membership of the American College of Sexologists and a Fellowship of the European Committee on Sexual Medicine.

Héritages en matière de santé dans le monde

Animée par Amref Health Africa

De nombreux pays africains restent fortement dépendants de l'aide étrangère, les fonds des donateurs représentant une part importante des dépenses totales de santé. L'ODD 17 vise à renforcer la coopération Nord-Sud et Sud-Sud et à favoriser des relations équitables et bénéfiques symbiotiques. Pourtant, de nombreuses décisions majeures spécifiques au programme de santé de l'Afrique - notamment l'accès aux vaccins contre le COVID-19 et leur attribution - continuent d'être prises dans le Nord, alors que ceux qui sont touchés par ces décisions ne sont souvent même pas à la table des négociations. C'est l'un des nombreux défis à explorer au cours de cette séance, ainsi que les implications des modèles unidirectionnels de financement, de personnes et de connaissances lorsqu'il s'agit des systèmes de santé africains. Les pays africains doivent avoir un siège à la table des négociations pour établir les priorités et définir le programme de santé, et les décisions de financement pour l'Afrique doivent être prises par le Sud. Cette séance, organisée par Amref Health Africa, examinera les héritages en matière de prise de décision, de financement, de conception et de mise en œuvre dans le domaine de la santé mondiale ; elle discutera de la manière dont les institutions de santé mondiale peuvent réorienter leur travail afin d'être plus responsables vis-à-vis des personnes qu'elles servent ; et elle encouragera les processus, la prise de décision et l'apprentissage au niveau local (tant Nord-Sud que Sud-Sud).

Professor Myriam Sidibe

Professor Myriam Sidibe is the Chief Mission Officer and Founder of Brands on a Mission, a B-Corp aiming to get Brands and Companies to drive impact in health and well-being through their business models. She is also the co-founder and Chair of the Kenya National Business Compact on Coronavirus and the woman behind the multi-award winning and UN recognized Global Handwashing Day now celebrated in over 100 countries.  From within Unilever, she has created a movement to change the handwashing behaviors of one billion people, the single biggest hygiene behavior change program in the world. In addition, Myriam is a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government of Harvard Kennedy School and a honorary Professor of the Practice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She is the author of the best-selling book #1 Business Ethics Brands on a Mission : How to Achieve Social Impact and Business Growth through Purpose (Routledge 2020) and her TED talk The Simple Power of Handwashing has been viewed more than 1 million times.   She is a regular contributor to the Entrepreneur and is regularly featured in FT, Forbes, HBR, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Reuters and CNBC.

Yunia Yiga Musaazi

Executive Director of the Uganda Water and Sanitation Network, a network of more than 200 Civil Society Organizations and a Board Member of the Africa Civil Society Network. Experienced Senior leader, with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry for more than 20 years. Skilled Passionate on Strong CSO Voice to advance WASH SDG 6 financing for the Africa Water Vision 2025. Dedicated to Strategic Leadership, Organizational Health, Institutional Strengthening, Policy Reforms, and Strategic Partnerships. Strong business development professional with a Master's degree focused on International Development from American University Washington DC.

Martin Muchangi

Martin Muchangi is the Director fir WASH&NTDs at Amref Health Africa. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health and is pursuing his doctor of philosophy studies in the same field.  Martin has 15 years of professional experience in the WASH sector particularly in the African context. He has devoted his career in designing and implementing innovative public health solutions that suit different contexts in Africa.  His area of expertise lies in refining the implementation science by developing and refining models that maximize public health benefits. His recent activities have involved testing various financing models for water and sanitation; economic evaluation for sanitation (cost effectiveness & cost benefits analysis), sanitation market research, health related quality of life (HRQoL), mHealth among other scientific writings that have been published in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of International Coalition for Trachoma Control (ICTC), represents Amref at the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) and a member of various global working groups in WASH&NTDs.

Prior to joining Amref, Martin worked with Action Against Hunger (ACF) Medair in Switzerland PATH in Kenya and the Government of Kenya as a Public Health Officer and in the discipline forces in various positions.

Rôle du programme WASH dans la promotion de l'autonomisation économique des femmes et l'amélioration de la santé sexuelle et reproductive

Animée par Amref Tanzanie

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Séance Amref Kenya

Animée par Amref Kenya

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Table ronde FIIM

Animée par la FIIM

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 17h20 – 18h20 EAT
Séance de clôture & Cérémonie de remise des prix
Dr Githinji Gitahi

A passionate advocate for pro-poor Universal Health Coverage, Githinji Gitahi joined Amref Health Africa as the Global Chief Executive Officer in June 2015. Amref Health Africa, founded in 1957, is the largest Africa-led international organization, reaching more than 11 million people each year through 150 health-focused projects across 35 countries. Until his appointment to Amref Health Africa, Dr Gitahi was the Vice President and Regional Director for Africa, Smile Train International. Prior to that, Dr Gitahi was Managing Director for Monitor Publications in Uganda as well as General Manager for Marketing and Circulation in East Africa for the Nation Media Group. He held progressively senior positions at GlaxoSmithKline and worked at the Avenue Group. Dr Gitahi is co-Chair of the UHC2030 Steering Committee, a global World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He serves on a number of Boards, notably - Board of Directors of The Standard Group in Kenya, Board of Trustees of Safaricom Foundation and Governing Board of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and prevention (Africa CDC). Dr Gitahi holds a bachelor’s degree in Medicine from the University of Nairobi, a master’s degree in Business Administration from the United States International University; as well as a Certificate for Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Management from Harvard University. In December 2018, Dr. Gitahi was bestowed the 2018 ‘Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear’ (MBS) by the President of Kenya, in recognition of his outstanding contribution and commitment to the health sector.

 
Desta Lakew

Desta Lakew leads global partnerships for Africa. In this role, she has been engaged in securing high level strategic global partnerships for Amref Health Africa. Desta has served on the Executive and Senior Management teams of Amref since 2014. Desta leads thought leadership and external engagements at the corporate headquarters of Amref working closely with global partners and the senior leadership team of Amref Health Africa. She was instrumental in the establishment and leadership of the first biennial Africa Health Agenda International Conference in 2014; leading a global south dialogue knowledge exchange platform on Universal Health Coverage in Africa and Asia; and the launching various campaigns including Communities at the Heart of UHC global advocacy campaign. Prior to joining, she was the Director of Development at a New York based foundation where she also served as Director of Marketing from 2006. She is a founding board member of the NY-Westchester Chapter of the National Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Her experience includes various roles in USA based university teaching hospitals and consulting with international organizations including the UNDP, and Public Health Innovations. Desta holds a Masters of Public Health from the State University of New York and currently serves on Acumen East Africa’s regional advisory board and the Thematic Working Group on Private Sector of Health Systems Global.

Scène principale

Cérémonie de remise des prix

Attribués par le Dr. Githinji Gitahi, PDG du Groupe Amref Health Africa

Les prix seront décernés conformément aux catégories suivantes:

  1. Leadership mondial en matière de santé
  2. Leadership africaine pour la santé liée au COVID-19
  3. Journalisme: Couverture médiatique sur le COVID-19

Principaux conclusions de la conférence et résolutions de l’AHAIC 2021 Remarques de clôture

18h20 EAT

Fin de la conférence

(Plateforme de réseautage ouverte jusqu’à 19h00 EAT)

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