Agenda

Live sessions
17:00–17:05	Welcome	Dr Ntombi Sigwebela FIND Regional Director, South Africa Moderator for day Bio
17:05–17:30	Diagnostics underpin sustainable, resilient health systems	Dr Davy Nsama Clinical Care and Diagnostic Services, MoH Zambia Bio Dr Noah Takah Fongwen Diagnostics Access, Africa CDC Bio Dr Fiona Braka Emergency Preparedness & Response Programme, WHO AFRO Bio Introduced by: Dr Daniel Bausch Senior Advisor to FIND; CPHIA organizing committee Bio
17:30–18:00	Transforming diagnostics to improve pandemic preparedness	Ms Charlotte Baker Deputy Head of the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat Bio Dr Emmanuel Agogo FIND Director, Pandemic Threats Bio
18:00–18:15	Networking & drinks
18:15–18:45	Building health systems for people, not diseases	Dr Daniel Mwai Advisor to the Presidential Economic Transformation Team on Health, Kenya Bio Dr Angela Muriuki FIND Director, Women’s Health Bio
18:45–19:15	Diagnostics and disease elimination: successes in sleeping sickness	Dr Charles Wamboga HAT National Coordinator, Uganda MoH Bio Prof Joseph Ndung’u FIND Executive Director, Kenya Bio
19:15–19:30	Networking & drinks
19:30–20:00	Showcase: a new generation of diagnostic tools	Dr Sanjay Sarin FIND VP, Access Bio
20:00–20:30	Buffet dinner
20:30–21:00	What the WHA Resolution on diagnostics means for Africa	Mr Tapiwanashe Kujinga Diagnostics Equity Consortium Bio Dr Richard Mihigo Director, Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Bio Prof Claude Muvunyi Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Centre Bio Dr Ntombi Sigwebela FIND Regional Director, South Africa Bio
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About our speakers
Back to the agenda	Dr Emmanuel Agogo FIND Director, Pandemic Threats Emmanuel Agogo holds over 20 years of experience in international development and public health, with expertise in in primary health care, health systems strengthening, HIV, TB, and global health security. He has held leadership positions at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Resolve to Save Lives.
Back to the agenda	Ms Charlotte Baker Deputy Head of the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat Charlotte Baker is a global health policy and communications specialist, and currently Deputy Head of the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, a time-limited entity set up to support the implementation of the 100 Days Mission. A journalist by training, Charlotte was Communications Lead for the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator during the COVID-19 pandemic, based at WHO and steering the communications and advocacy outputs for this multi-billion-dollar partnership to deliver COVID-19 tools. Prior to that, she was part of the External Relations team at global health innovation agency Unitaid, focusing on communicating their work on treatments for HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer and COVID-19. She has a Masters degree in African Politics and Economics from SOAS, University of London and a BA Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Alongside her day job, she runs a small NGO working on health and education access in Madagascar.
Back to the agenda	Dr Daniel Bausch Senior Advisor to FIND; CPHIA organizing committee Dr Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, is the Senior Advisor for Global Health Security, overseeing FIND`s efforts on pandemic preparedness and response, surveillance, humanitarian emergencies, and antimicrobial resistance. He is trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and public health. Dr Bausch specializes in the research and control of emerging tropical viruses, with over 25 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Lassa, hantavirus, and SARS coronaviruses. Previously, he served as Director of the United Kingdom`s Public Health Rapid Support team (2017-21), a joint effort by Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to respond and conduct research to prevent and control outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases around the world. He has also held posts at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland; U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 in Lima, Peru; Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, USA; and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA. In addition to his role at FIND, Dr Bausch holds an appointment as a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is the current President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He places a strong emphasis on capacity development in all his projects and has a keen interest in the role of the scientist in promoting health and human rights. Dr Bausch is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Back to the agenda	Dr Fiona Braka Emergency Preparedness & Response Programme, WHO AFRO Dr Fiona Braka is the Emergency Operations Manager of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa based in Brazzaville, Congo. She leads the regional response operations to acute and protracted health emergencies including disease outbreaks and humanitarian crises. She coordinates the regional effort to ensure emergency-affected populations have access to timely essential health services through effective coordination, establishment of emergency management systems for support at country level, effective operational partnerships, humanitarian policy and strategic guidance. Dr Braka has two decades of national and international experience with the World Health Organization. She served in Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria supporting the national governments to strengthen their vaccination programmes and respond to vaccine preventable disease outbreaks and other emergencies. Dr Braka led a vast team in Nigeria working closely with the Government and partners to eradicate wild polio virus. Through the strong support of the WHO team under her leadership and a range of stakeholders, Nigeria was able to interrupt wild polio virus transmission, which led to the certification of wild polio virus eradication in the African Region in August 2020. Dr Braka is Ugandan and holds a Medical Degree from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and a Master of Public Health Degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland, USA.
Back to the agenda	Dr Noah Takah Fongwen Diagnostics Access, Africa CDC Diagnostics access coordinator. Holds an MD (Doctor of Medicine) degree from the University of Buea, Cameroon, a Master of Public Health from the University of Glasgow, UK. Did a fellowship in infectious disease diagnostics at the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and currently at the final stages of completing his Doctor of Public Health (Dr.PH) at the Faculty of Infectious Diseases of LSHTM, which was done on a part time basis from 2019. Leads the Africa Collaborative Initiative to Advance Diagnostics (AFCAD). Responsible for local manufacturing of diagnostics, biobanking, diagnostics development and evaluation, regulation through streamlining regulatory harmonization processes in collaboration with the AMDF and AMRH programme of AUDA NEPAD. Co-led the establishment of the Africa Biobanking Network and led the establishment of the Diagnostics Advisory Committee (DAC) as a mechanism to accelerate diagnostics access in Africa.
Back to the agenda	Mr Tapiwanashe Kujinga Diagnostics Equity Consortium Tapiwa Kujinga is the Director of the Pan-African Treatment Access Movement (PATAM). The organisation works, among other programs, to advocate for the scaling up of access to quality treatment and diagnostics in Africa. It has been involved in advocacy around universal access to treatment for HIV and AIDS, the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV and is currently working on optimal access to essential diagnostics.
Back to the agenda	Dr Daniel Mwai Advisor to the Presidential Economic Transformation Team on Health, Kenya A health economist with over 15 years of local and international experience guiding the adoption of health policies geared toward improving healthcare outcomes and expanding high-quality health services across all levels of the health system. Countries of operation are in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Guyana, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Zambia. Dr. Daniel Mwai is a health finance specialist and a recognized thought leader in health financing, strategic planning, health policy, health economic evaluation and resource mobilization for the health sector in Africa. He is a Senior Lecturer of Health Economics at the University of Nairobi, and advisor at Futures Health Economics and Metrics (F.H.E.M); a consulting firm that provides evidence for optimal health investment globally (https://futureshealth.org ). He is also an alternate Health Finance Expert at Geneva-based Global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Executive Committee and Country Focal Person at Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Centre (SPARC). He is a recognized thought leader in Health Financing; Strategic Planning, Health Policy; Health Economic Evaluation and Resource Mobilization for the health sector in Africa with over 15 years experience. He has provided Technical Assistance in numerous countries in costing, efficiency, cost effectiveness analysis and investment for Health. He has extensive experience in Planning and Budgeting in the health sectors, having worked on capacity building of the County Government in Planning and Budgeting as per the PFM ACTs. He has advised the Ministry of Health in the area of Health Financing for the last 14 years overseeing mobilization of over US$1.2 billion for the Health sector at the National and Sub National government. He has been a lead expert in domestic resource mobilization initiative in line with the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda at the National and County level in Kenya. These efforts are aimed at achieving sustainability in health care financing and a key step towards achievement of Universal Health Coverage. Dr. Mwai's work experience and advisory work spans the public and private sectors, not-for-profit, and key international development agencies. His work has contributed to improvement in health care outcomes and expanded high quality pro-poor health services across all levels of the health system. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, has published scientific publications, numerous government reports and policy briefs.
Back to the agenda	Dr Richard Mihigo Director, Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Dr. Mihigo is a Senior Public Health Executive with more than 29 years’ experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating health system strengthening and disease control programmes at national, regional, and international levels. He joined Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance in April 2022 as the Director of COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery, Coordination, and Integration and Deputy Global Coordinator of the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP). He led and coordinated the COVAX Facility delivery efforts in providing more than 1.97 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 146 countries across the continents. These COVAX-supported vaccines make up 74% of all doses delivered to low-income countries (LICs), and 68% of all doses to AMC-supported African countries. He is currently supporting Gavi’s ambition in Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR). Prior to joining Gavi, He served as the Chief of Immunisation & Vaccines Development Programme in the WHO Regional Office for Africa based in Brazzaville, Congo; a position he held since 2014. In that capacity, Dr. Mihigo coordinated WHO’s technical support to the 47 Member States in the African Region in the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of immunisation programmes. This included supporting the development of policies, norms, and standards for national immunisation programmes including vaccine regulation & research, establishing, and strengthening partnership coordination mechanisms between countries and supporting resource mobilisation efforts for national immunisation programmes. Dr. Mihigo supported WHO’s overall response to COVID-19 pandemic in the African Region as Deputy Incident Manager and coordinated WHO’s efforts to support countries’ preparedness, deployment, and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and other medical countermeasures. Dr Mihigo worked at various senior levels in the health system in Rwanda from 1994 to 2003 and managed the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) as the National Director from 2000 to 2003. In 2004, he was the Permanent Secretary of Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM) of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) in Rwanda and has also worked in the past as an independent consultant for different international organisations including UNICEF, USAID, and the GFATM.
Back to the agenda	Dr Angela Muriuki FIND Director, Women’s Health Angela joined FIND in February 2023 as the Director, Women’s Health, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has 16+ years’ experience working with women and girls in programme, policy, research, system strengthening and clinical roles in East, West and Central Africa and in South Asia. She is a passionate advocate for person- and people-centred approaches to addressing the needs of women and girls based on their age and life stage. Some of her previous work includes translation of key principles from the science of the developing adolescent’s brain into design and delivery of programmes for very young adolescents in Tanzania, testing of a risk-based approach to provision of targeted postnatal care in Bangladesh, testing of resupply approaches for conflicted-affected chronic care patients (HIV, NCD) during displacement and forced movement in DRC, adapting health systems to meet the needs of nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists in Kenya and a person-centred, holistic approach to care of pregnant and parenting adolescents in Sierra Leone. Angela obtained her medical degree at the University of Nairobi and her master’s degree from The Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam and Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, as part of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme.
Back to the agenda	Prof Claude Muvunyi Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Centre Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI is the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre. He has more than 10 years of technical, managerial, and strategic experience and expertise in the field of clinical and public laboratory medicine with special focus on clinical microbiology, laboratory systems and service strengthening, and global health security. Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI is currently a full professor of clinical Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine. He holds a degree in general medicine from the university of Rwanda, a specialization and a PhD in Clinical Microbiology from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He also holds a master's in medical Virology from the University of Manchester. Prior to joining the RBC, Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI was a Senior Regional Laboratory Advisor at ICAP at Columbia University, providing technical and strategic leadership support to the Laboratory program/project in building quality assured diagnostic capacities at all levels in the network (public and private health laboratories) of countries in Africa, South and Central Asia, and central America. He has also been a senior consultant for World Health Organization (WHO) supporting WHO’s programs for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and diagnostic capacity building in African countries. He has been the Head of National reference Laboratory, and the Director of Microbiology unit as well as a study physician for AIDS Vaccine clinical and feasibility research at Project San Francisco. He has published papers in several international and regional peer-reviewed journals and has made numerous presentations in international conferences. His research interests include evaluation of diagnostic methods (molecular and serological) for infectious diseases and operational research on diagnostic implementation and scale up, and to assess the impact of the new diagnostic for infectious diseases.
Back to the agenda	Prof Joseph Ndung’u FIND Executive Director, Kenya Professor Joseph Ndung’u is the Executive Director of FIND in Kenya and Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). A veterinarian with a PhD in immunopathology of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, or sleeping sickness), Professor Ndung’u is also a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE). Prior to joining FIND in 2006, he was the Director of the Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute. He has extensive experience in development and introduction of diagnostics for HAT, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, Buruli ulcer and schistosomiasis.
Back to the agenda	Dr Davy Nsama Clinical Care and Diagnostic Services, Zambia MoH Mr Davy Nsama has a Bachelors Degree in Biomedical Sciences and currently serves as the Assistant Director Laboratory Service in the Department of Clinical Care and Diagnostic Services, Ministry of Health Zambia. He is Medical/Public Health Laboratory Scientist with experience in all aspects of Medical/Public Health laboratory work and Laboratory systems strengthening, Quality Management, Laboratory emergency preparedness and response and biosafety and biosecurity, Laboratory Logistics Management Information Systems, Laboratory commodities forecasting and Quantification Systems and Laboratory waste management programs. He is Medical Laboratory professional with over 25 years of proven laboratory leadership skills, including managing and motivating other staff to achieve Ministerial goals and objectives. He is Master trainer and Quality Auditor of SLMTA/SLIPTA program, who has conducted many SLMTA TOT workshops and Laboratory SLIPTA Quality Audits and has trained and mentored several laboratorians in the past decade.
Back to the agenda	Dr Sanjay Sarin FIND VP, Access Sanjay Sarin joined FIND in September 2015 as Head of Country Operations for India and Head of Access Programme for Asia Pacific. He has a doctorate from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India and close to 20 years’ experience in health policy, market development, and business management with specialization in the development of strategic initiatives for driving access in emerging markets. In his current role, he is responsible for providing leadership for strategic plan development and implementation of current and planned operations in FIND India, ensuring continued engagement with partners and donors at local and international levels and leading the resource mobilization efforts in the AP region. Sanjay joined FIND from Becton Dickinson (BD), where he was Regional Director of Global Health for the Asia Pacific region and was responsible for design, development, and implementation of BD’s public health strategies. During his stint with BD, he was instrumental in establishing several key partnerships, including one with MoH India, which resulted in expansion of TB diagnostic capacity within the national TB programme; TB lab strengthening partnership with USAID in Indonesia; collaboration with Project Hope to strengthen diabetes management capacity at Class 1 facilities in China, and a lab systems strengthening partnership with CDC and MoH India known as the “Labs for Life Partnership”. Before joining BD, Sanjay served as Regional Lab Advisor (India & South East Asia) with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). In CHAI, he played a key role in scaling up access to CD4 monitoring within India’s AIDS Control Programme and was responsible for setting up more than a dozen functional CD4 laboratories, development of the CD4 enumeration guidelines and an external quality assurance system for CD4 monitoring in India.
Back to the agenda	Dr Ntombi Sigwebela FIND Regional Director, South Africa She is a South African medical doctor with over 20 years of experience in the field of infectious diseases of public health importance, mainly TB and HIV. She is a highly skilled and experienced leader with a proven track record of success in leading and managing the implementation of donor-funded programs in Southern Africa and other regions of the world. Dr. Ntombi Sigwebela began her career as a clinical investigator in multi-country clinical trials for HIV drugs and HIV service delivery demonstration projects. She then moved into various project leadership roles as Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party and Senior technical advisor. Prior to joining FIND, she worked in a leadership role at Right to Care NPC, where she served as Head of Business Development. In this role, she was responsible for developing and implementing strategies to expand the reach and impact of Right to Care’s programs. Ntombi is highly experienced in operations management, resource mobilization, disease programs management, and internal and external stakeholder management. She has served on advisory committees for the World Health Organization, the South African National Department of Health, and other organizations. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences and events on topics related to TB, HIV, and other infectious diseases She is a passionate advocate for the health and well-being of people living with TB, HIV and other diseases of public health concern. She is also committed to using her skills and experience to make a difference in the lives of others.
Back to the agenda	Dr Charles Wamboga HAT National Coordinator, Uganda MoH Charles Wamboga is head of the HAT programme in Uganda. He is a Medical Doctor with a masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Prior to his current assignment he worked as a medical officer and as a regional coordinator for HAT. He is involved in disease control activities at national and subnational levels on HAT and other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Dr Charles Wamboga has involved in clinical research on HAT for almost two decades.