ABOUT

Subthemes:

1. Secure the demand through new procurement channels (pooled procurement platforms, Public Private Partnerships and innovative reform of healthcare expenditure and health insurance).
2. Sustained investments: Bankable projects and an environment conducive for financially sustainable business. Attracting foreign direct investment and leveraging of domestic resources.
3. Building resilient regulatory systems: strengthened Africa National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) and harmonized operating models throughout the continent including the role of Africa Medicines Agency (AMA)?
4. End-to-end R&D development including Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs): Research, innovation, and all the levels of clinical trials.
5. Identify, build and nurture critical talent to work and advance health product manufacturing capabilities in Africa.
6. Funding and the role of private sector and start-ups.

Subthemes:

1. Bridging the gap: Exploring and evaluations of innovative health financing mechanisms for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
2. Sustaining health for all: Promoting innovative pathways to sustainable health financing in Africa.
3. Securing health for all: Strategic resource mobilization for UHC and health security in Africa.
4. Building trust and resilience: Fostering financial governance and accountability for health systems in Africa.
5. Synergy for success: Integrating financing strategies with health priorities to transform Africa’s health systems.

Subthemes:

1. Strengthening primary health care equity via whole-of-society engagement.
2. Enhancing Primary health care through technology: AI, health information systems, and innovative care models.
3. Building a fit-for-purpose health workforce: Bridging the gap in Africa.
4. Harnessing the resilience of primary health care (PHC) to meet emerging health and well-being challenges.
5. Addressing social and environmental determinants for achieving UHC.
6. Implementing ‘Health in All Policies’: Realizing the Astana declaration’s vision.
7. Leveraging partnerships to enhance health regulatory systems.

Subthemes:

1. Digitalising primary health care: Leveraging digital transformation and AI for improved service delivery.
2. Precision health and AI: Enhancing decision making and service delivery.
3. Addressing health disparities through digital health: Gender, equity, and inclusion.
4. Innovative financing models for digital health solutions.
5. Telemedicine and AI: Extending reach and access to health care services.

Subthemes:

1. Research for climate change and health outcomes.
2. Policy frameworks for One Health and UHC.
3. Digital tools for health security and climate preparedness.
4. Community engagement in climate change and One Health.

Subthemes:

1. Women and youth as users and providers of health care.
2. A life course approach to enhance maternal mortality rates and life trajectories of infants, children and youth.
3. Harnessing the power of youth in Africa: Modernizing health care systems through digital platforms.
4. Health impacts of climate change, violence and forced displacement of women and youth.
5. The rapidly growing substance use epidemic in Africa – threats to women and youth.
6. Strengthening primary health care to bolster child health.

Subthemes:

1. Integrated health systems for disease responses in the context of primary health care: Challenges and opportunities in Africa.
2. Innovative solutions and partnerships to prevent and control the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries.
3. Lessons from the investment and management of historically high-burden diseases (HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and TB) to enhance current strategies and inform new horizons for other disease responses.
4. Mental health and substance use disorders: Successful public health initiatives as case studies that can be replicated with contextualization.
5. Neglected tropical diseases: Lessons learnt to accelerate the elimination agenda.

Subthemes:

1. Vaccines as the most effective way to prevent the spread of pandemics: Manufacturing, acceptance and uptake.
2. Advancing disease surveillance to cope with epidemic and pandemic situations.
3. Role of laboratory in pandemics: Towards multiple point of care tests for epidemic prone diseases.
4. Global and regional collaboration for health security, including pandemic response.
5. Addressing misinformation and disinformation in pandemic response.
6. Innovations for enhanced multi sectoral surveillance and response to emerging and re-emerging diseases.
7. National and sub-national public health institutions.