1st African Patient Congress
Date
20 - 21 July 2021
Hosts
IFPMA and IAPO
Location
Virtual
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The 1st Virtual African Patients Congress: ‘Co-creating Better Healthcare Systems’ (APC 2021) held on 20 -21 July 2021, was a patient led regional convening bringing together IAPO’s African membership with a variety of high-level healthcare stakeholders to share their vision and experience on how we can build back better African health systems after the pandemic.
Through a range of interactive capacity building and knowledge-sharing sessions, delegates developed the tools to ensure that the patient movement across the region is made up of strong patient advocates. The goal was to prepare ourselves, as patient advocates, to take on the challenges and opportunities that have arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as from increasing regulatory harmonisation across Africa with the set-up of the African Medicines Agency.
APC 2021 aimed to create an enabling environment for African expert patients and innovators to share their vision and experience as to how we can build back better health systems after the pandemic. This patient co-created health innovation will be critical in saving lives, extending services, improving effectiveness and efficiencies across the entire African healthcare ecosystem after the pandemic.
Program
20th July - 09:00
Welcome and opening remarks
Keynote Speech: Can Africa be the first to eliminate and even eradicate ALL infectious diseases this time by 2030?
Speakers
- Bisi Bright, Board Member, IAPO
- Ellos Ellard Lodzeni, Board Treasurer, IAPO
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO
- Dr. Ratna Devi, Chair, IAPO
- Dr Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population – Egypt
- Dr Ahmed Ogwell, Deputy Director, Africa CDC
20th July - 09:55
Is it the dawn of a new African healthcare ecosystem: enabling patient engagement and co-creation in UHC 2030
Speakers
- Danjuma Adda, President-Elect, World Hepatitis Alliance (Moderator)
- Fatima Seedat, Development Manager, The South African Depression and Anxiety Group – SADAG
- Prof Adenike Grange, former Health Minister in Nigeria
20th July - 11:05
African patient engagement in the Global Patient Safety Plan 2021-2030
Speakers
- Ellos Ellard Lodzeni, Board Treasurer, IAPO (Moderator)
- Gertrude Avortri, Patient Safety Focal Point, World Health Organization Africa
- Dr Neda Milevska-Kostova, Vice-Chair, IAPO
- Dr Titus Beyuo, Obstetrician Gynaecologist and Co-founder, Comprehensive Care Group, Ghana
20th July - 13:00
African healthcare innovation: Is there room for patient engagement and co-creation in healthcare innovation?
Speakers
- Bisi Bright, Board Member, IAPO (Moderator)
- Emily Sheldon, CEO, Africa Health Innovation Center
- Emile Tata Kongnso, CEO, Center for the Promotion and Protection of Patient’s Rights in Cameroon
- Padmaja Kamath, Director Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Global Self-Care Federation
20th July - 14:10
African patient engagement in clinical research and development of medicines, vaccines, and health devices
Speakers
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO (Moderator)
- Dr Adeline Edgal, Chief Scientific Officer for SSA, Novartis
- Dr Nilufar Ahmed, Bristol University – Co-production of Clinical Research
- Dr Miriam Mutebi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi
20th July - 15:10
Closing Keynote: Africa's healthcare: Caring for all
Speakers
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO
- Menassie M. Taddese, President for Emerging Markets, Viatris
20th July - 15:25
Day 1 Wrap Up
Speakers
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO
21st July - 09:00
Can African health systems advance using personlised healthcare?
Speakers
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO (Moderator)
- Marlene Thomas, Global Patients Affairs, Roche
21st July - 09:30
Antimicrobial resistance and Africa. The next pandemic: Are we prepared?
Speakers
- Danjuma Adda, President-Elect, World Hepatitis Alliance (Moderator)
- Bisi Bright, Board Member, IAPO
- Dr Chrispin Kambili, Medical Affairs Lead Global Public Health group,Johnson & Johnson
- Dr Nicholas Adomakoh, Global Medical Affairs Lead for Anti-infectives, Novartis / Sandoz
- Dr Greg Frank, PhD, Global Public Policy Director, MSD
- Dr Walter Fuller, AMR Stewardship and Awareness Lead, WHO Afro
- Dr Michael Anderson, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Dr Mirfin Mpundu, Director, ReACT Africa
21st July - 11:00
Health equity in Africa: Neglected Tropical Diseases, entrenched infectious diseases and UN Resolution on Rare Diseases
Speakers
- Johnpaul Omollo, Health Research and Development – Program Officer, PATH (moderator)
- Kelly du Plessis, CEO, Rare Disease South Africa
- Samuel Agyei-Wiafe, Executive Director, Rare Disease Initiative Ghana
- Dr Elizabeth Juma, World Health Organization Africa
- Dr Roger Sombie, Professor of Hepato-gastroenterology, Yalgado Ouédraogo University Hospital & Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
21st July - 12:10
Have the big four NCD (CVD, Cancer, Diabetes, COPD) vertical programmes overshadowed other NCDs in Africa?
Speakers
- Flavia Kyomukama, Executive Director, Action Group
for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Moderator) - Manan Shah, Vice President, Global Public Affairs, LEO Pharma & Assistant Professor of Public Health, School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Christopher Agbega, Advocacy Officer, Sharecare Ghana
- Lefate Makunyane, The South African Depression and Anxiety Group – SADAG
- Dr Chandrashekhar Potkar, Chief Medical Officer, Emerging Markets, Viatris
21st July - 14:00
Can African UHC 2030 benefit from health technology assessment?
Speakers
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO (Moderator)
- Dr Dalia Dawoud, Scientific Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Mohamed Gad MD, MA, health economist at the Department of Global Health & Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
21st July - 15:00
African Medicines Agency Treaty regulatory convergence & reliance
Speakers
- John Mwangi, Co-Chair – Africa Regulatory Network, IFPMA (Co-moderator)
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO (Co-moderator)
- Mimi Darko, CEO, FDA Ghana
- Dr Margaret Agama-Anyetei, Head of the Health, Nutrition and Population Division Africa Union
- Johnpaul Omollo, Health Research and Development – Program Officer, PATH
21st July - 16:00
Call To Action and Wrap Up: End of Congress
Speakers
- Bisi Bright, Board Member, IAPO
- Ellos Ellard Lodzeni, Board Treasurer, IAPO
- Kawaldip Sehmi, CEO, IAPO
Resources
Supporting documents
- Day 1: Welcome and opening remarks
- Day 1: Can Africa be the first to eliminate and even eradicate ALL infectious diseases this time by 2030?
- Day 1: Is it the dawn of a new African healthcare ecosystem: enabling patient engagement and co-creation in UHC 2030
- Day 1: African patient engagement in the Global Patient Safety Plan 2021-2030
- Day 1: African healthcare innovation: Is there room for patient engagement and co-creation in healthcare innovation?
- Day 1: African patient engagement in clinical research and development of medicines, vaccines, and health devices
- Day 1: Closing Keynote: Africa's healthcare: Caring for all
- Day 1: Wrap Up
- Day 2: Can African health systems advance using personlised healthcare?
- Day 2: Antimicrobial resistance and Africa. The next pandemic: Are we prepared?
- Day 2: Health equity in Africa: Neglected Tropical Diseases, entrenched infectious diseases and UN Resolution on Rare Diseases
- Day 2: Have the big four NCD (CVD, Cancer, Diabetes, COPD) vertical programmes overshadowed other NCDs in Africa?
- Day 2: Can African UHC 2030 benefit from health technology assessment?
- Day 2: African Medicines Agency Treaty regulatory convergence & reliance
- Day 2: Call To Action and Wrap Up