Plenary & Keynote Speakers


The below list will be updated regularly as additional speakers are confirmed.




Director Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; African Union Commission

 


Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Director of the PhD Program in Bioscience and Public Health at Eduardo Mondlane University

 

Tumani Corrah

Founder & President Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), Emeritus Director MRC Unit, The Gambia @ LSTHM

 

Leonardo Simao

Former ED of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation, Chairman of the SADC Mediation Reference Group, and Chairman of the steering committee of the Business Environment Support Fund in Mozambique

 


M.D, Ph.D, Director, ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases Agency, Aviesan Institute of Immunology, Inflammation, Infectiology, and Microbiology

 


Commissioner European Commission

Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

 

Lindiwe Makubalo

Assistant Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa 

 

Andrea Spelberg

Head of Division for Global Health Research, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 

 


European Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission

 


Ambassador, Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Mozambique 

 

Michael Makanga

EDCTP Executive  Director 

 

Catherine Hankins

Forum Programme Committee Chair and EDCTP Scientific Advisory Committee Chair; Deputy Director Science, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development

 


EDCTP High Representative (Europe) and President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences

 


Forum Organising Committee Chair and EDCTP Director of International Cooperation (Africa) & Head of Africa Office

 

Armindo Tiago

Minister of Health for the Republic of Mozambique 

 

EDCTP Policy Officer, European Commission 

 


Chief Executive and Scientific Officer, Sanaria Inc. 

 


Head of Unit, Strategic Information for Response at the World Health Organization Global Malaria Programme (GMP) in Geneva, Switzerland

 

Kwaku Poku Asante

Deputy Director of Kintampo Health Research Centre under the Ghana Health Service’s Research and Development Division 

 

Senior Technical Officer at the World Health Organization Product Development Research Unit and Team Lead for Malaria Vaccines

 


Evaluation lead on the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) seated within the Global Malaria Programme (GMP), at World Health Organisation (WHO)

 


Director, Global Malaria ProgrammeWorld Health Organization

 

Rose Gana Fomban Leke

Cameroonian malariologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunology and Parasitology at the University of Yaounde I

 

Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech

 


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