40+

Speakers

200+

Organizations

200+

Delegates

30+

Countries

The Africa Health Business Symposium (AHBS), curated by Africa Health Business (AHB), is a Pan-African conference that sits at the heart of the African healthcare scene. Over the last four years AHBS has emerged as Africa’s largest health business event. This year, AHBS will bring together some of the most influential public and business leaders and key stakeholders in the development sector for a series of webinars themed “Partnerships for resilient health systems”. As Africa adapts to a new normal, partnerships in over-stretched health systems will continue to play an important role. The AHBS webinar series will consist of five sessions in October and November discussing key areas that are at the centre of change :

29th October 2020

5th November 2020

12th November 2020

19th November 2020

26th November 2020

Who is attending the 2nd webinar series?

Private Sector

Governments

Development Partners

Investors

Thought Leaders

Academia

The AHBS 1st webinar series, organised by Africa Health Business (AHB) took place on the 17th of July – 14th of August 2020. This first series under the theme partnerships for COVID-19 in Africa covered the themes of Digital health, Manufacturing and supply chain, Testing, treating and tracking, Infrastructure and equipment and Financing models.

The series was well attend with participants logging in from the African continent, Europe, Asia, America and the Middle East.

Speakers

Human resources for health

26th November 2020

Kate Tulenko

Corvus Health, Founder

Ghazi Darghouth

President, Tunisia Health Alliance

Elizabeth Wala

Global Advisor, Health and Nutrition, Aga Khan Foundation

Frank Loeffler

General Manager, Roche East Africa

Polly Dunford

President and CEO, IntraHealth

Marjorie Mbule

Senior Programme Lead, Mothers2Mothers

Nyawira Njeru

Global Health Director - Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, BD

2nd Webinar Series Reports

Digital Health

29th October 2020

Hila Azadzoy

Managing Director, Global Health Initiative, Ada Health

Melissa Menke

Founder and CEO, Access Afya

Didier Nkurikiyimfura

Director of Technology & Innovation at the Smart Africa Secretariat

Paul Bhuhi

Group Board Advisor, BroadReach

Robin Njiru

Business Lead-East Africa, Amazon Web Services

Ada Mwangola

Director Social & Political Pillars, Kenya Vision 2030

"There are so many great technologies out there. We can have the best technology, but if we’re not collaborating, especially with the public health sector where the majority of people in low- and middle-income countries are accessing care, these solutions and the potential impact will not be able to scale.."

Hila Azadzoy

Managing Director, Global Health Initiative, Ada Health

"We are keen as an organisation to support, partner with, and develop startups. Especially in the context of Africa we see a lot of niche SMEs and addressing local issues but with the inability to scale, so AWS is keen to form partnerships in the healthcare space to help with this.."

Robin Njiru

Business Lead-East Africa, Amazon Web Services

Healthcare financing

5th November 2020

Kwasi Boahene

Director for Advocacy & West Africa, PharmAccess

Audrey Obara

Head of Healthcare Investments, Swedfund International AB

Shakir Merali

Partner LGT Lightstone

Amit N. Thakker

Executive Chairman, Africa Health Business

"As Swedfund, we want to provide investment in healthcare companies that are providing quality care. We use PharmAccess’s SafeCare program to assess the quality of care as well as to help us know how to support organisations through technical support, among other avenues."

Audrey Obara

Head of Healthcare Investments, Swedfund International AB

"At PharmAccess, the aim is to build health systems in such a way that people will have access to care, not only for today, but for the long-term. For that reason, we have an integrated approach where we work on the financing of care.."

Kwasi Boahene

Director for Advocacy & West Africa, PharmAccess

"What is becoming evident and what we’re looking to fund is the availability of the right kind of healthcare solutions that are Africanised, that deal with African problems and are not prescribed from abroad or are ivory tower based solutions..."

Shakir Merali

Partner, LGT Lightstone

Manufacturing & Supply Chain

12th November 2020

Yasmin Chandani

inSupply Health, CEO

Harald Nusser

Global Health expert

Stavros Nicolaou

Group Senior Executive Strategic Trade, Aspen

Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

Deputy Director, Africa CDC

Chidinma Ifepe

Head of Buyer Management, Africa Medical Supplies Platform

Amit N. Thakker

Executive Chairman, Africa Health Business

"There is a great opportunity for manufacturers on the continent. We have great potential. The health market is over $250 billion, but local manufacturing is still extremely small. For drugs alone, we import something in the range of 90 to 95% of what we need. For equipment, it is even higher than that (in the 98% range), meaning that the opportunity for African manufacturers to step into this space is significant.."

Dr. E. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

Deputy Director, Africa CDC

"Today, Africa has a population of about 1.3 billion, but tomorrow there's an estimate that it's going to be around 2.4 billion. The structures we have today are not enough to scale for our population size of tomorrow. ."

Chidinma Ifepe

Head of Buyer Management, Africa Medical Supplies Platform

"When it comes to partnership with private sector organisations, it is important for both sides and co-creators to have the situational analysis done before public- private partnership is even manifested in a memorandum of understanding. We have often learned this the hard way..."