Many thanks to the @GatesFoundation & Learning Planet Institute for allowing us to co-host a policy conversation on #pandemic preparedness & response with Bill Gates & key specialists: ✅Samba Sow | CVD-Mali ✅Ilona Kickbusch | @GHC_IHEID ✅Dr Sylvie Briand | World Health Organization (WHO) ✅@SpringGombe | @MarketAccessAF

This insightful discussion focused on #pandemic preparedness and response, exploring what shifts in global #health #governance and #innovation - including those proposed in Bill Gates’ new book (How to Prevent the Next Pandemic), could help us better prepare for future pandemics.

The #ParisPeaceForum aims to inform the post-#Covid governance of global #health, ensuring that the right lessons are learned from the #pandemic to forge a more effective, predictable and equitable global health system for the future.

🤩Many thanks to Paris Peace Forum & Gates Foundation or co-organizing with us here📍Learning Planet Institute a unique talk on #pandemic preparedness w/ Bill Gates & key specialists: 👉Samba Sow | CVD-Mali 👉Ilona Kickbusch | @GHC_IHEID 👉@SpringGombe | @MarketAccessAF 👉Dr Sylvie Briand | World Health Organization (WHO)

Happy #AfricaDay! Our African-led healthcare firm focuses exclusively on health care across the continent, partnering with organizations to navigate markets, and scale new innovations to transform access to health. We celebrate Africa's immense talent and innovations every day!

Please join us in welcoming @SpringGombe as a Principal in Policy and Partnerships.She has extensive expertise in global health policy and advocacy, and will provide strategic advice on working with a range of non-state actors, multilateral agencies, and governments. #marketacess

We're thrilled to welcome Newton WhatifSDG17wasSDG1 as a Principal in #Diagnostics & #LaboratoryServices. As a specialist in laboratory systems strengthening and supply chain management, he will develop our market strategies to ensure deployment of innovative diagnostic technologies.

Join @SpringGombe and other dignitaries in the opening session of #WHS2022 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

As we close Women's History Month, we thought it fitting to highlight four women whose leadership will be instrumental to our goal of reimagining African healthcare. Tariro Makadzange Magda Robalo Dr Ebere Okereke Alice Kang'ethe. Watch. marketaccess.africa/insights

Listen to leading infectious disease physician, Tariro Makadzange, discuss why African health leaders need to take a greater role in defining the agenda for medical discoveries and innovation. youtube.com/watch?v=1gN0in…

"We need to have unity within our diversity. We don't need vaccine manufacturing units in every country." Hear more ideas for the future of African healthcare with Dr. Magda Robalo, a global health trailblazer. youtube.com/watch?v=FDIc44…

Alice Kang'ethe reflects on how far we have come in HIV care and treatment. What seemed like a pipe dream in 2003 is a no-brainer today. We need the same level of ambition to make innovations - like injectable, long-acting PrEP - accessible to all. youtube.com/watch?v=N9h31m…

"There is a global issue around gender imbalance and misogyny, replicated in every ecosystem, where the bottom of the pyramid is always staffed by women." Hear more from our conversation with Dr Ebere Okereke on the future of African healthcare. youtu.be/r--_QGSp7yI

Health Ministers of WHO African Region in Botwswana are forming a movement to prevent millions of children from dying each year before their 5th birthday. As Vice Chair, Austin Demby is calling on African leaders to reach SDG 3.2 & improve child survival in Sierra Leone & across Africa.