2022 Africa Webinar

Diagnostic & health monitoring

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It is important that African authorities and government build on the experience of Covid 19, the lessons learn and best practices to ensure a better care and more resilient healthcare systems, especially in the wake of pandemics

COVID-19 has pushed a lot of countries to have more of an integrated, while decentralised, approach regarding diagnostic, surveillance & care not only for Covid-19 but for all diseases of a public health importance

Diagnostics and health monitoring need to remain a top priority agenda for authorities as this supports advanced industrial health coverage, address health emergencies and promote healthier populations

While African countries are in the midst of their epidemiological transition, communicable diseases remain important in some regions and epidemics are not to be neglected, therefore health authorities in coordination and cooperation with all stakeholders from all industries need to have a preparedness plan to make sure to be prepared and ready for any type of health crisis scenario as Covid has highlighted that while it was a public health emergency it affected all sectors.

Covid- 19 highlighted the weak diagnostic infrastructures, laboratories capacities and human resources capacities for testing on the continent and pushed governments to invest in them quickly to be able to answer to the health emergency of covid-19 and its best management

Audience

Dr. John Oladejo, Director, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, Nigerian Center for Disease Control(Nigeria CDC)
Dr. Hassan Moussa Hassan, Director of Pharmacy, Ministry of Health, Djibouti
Narassem Mbaïdoum, Director General of Planning and Cooperation, Ministry of Public Health and National Solidarity, Chad
Mamadou Bah, Advisor to the Minister in charge of health security, Ministry of Health, Mauritania
Moussa ABDELLAHI, Director of Strategic Information and Epidemiological Surveillance, Ministry of Health of Mauritania
Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf, Director INRSP, Ministry of Health of Mauritania
Dr. Razafimahatratra Rado, Director General of Health Care Provision, Ministry of Public Health Madagascar
Dr. Hind Bouguerran Ministry of Health Tunisia

Attending Experts

Dr Paolo Lauriola

Scientific Responsible of the “Italian Network of Sentinel Physician for the Environment” (RIMSA) and Italian representative of the International Network of Public Health and Environmental Tracking (INPHET)

Nqobile Ndlovu

CEO, ASLM (African Society for Laboratory Medicine)

Oduor Kevin

Chief Programs Officer – Stowelink Inc

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