The Lancet Commission on the Future of Health and Economic Resilience in Africa (FHERA), designed as a multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary platform to share the evidence-based actions needed from leaders, governments, and development institutions, for a better future in the continent. To achieve its objectives, FHERA organized several thematic working groups, mainly led by Africans and institutions from the continent to formulate recommendations that would target key leaders and institutions.
This meeting will allow reflection for the identification in African countries of obstacles in governance, financing, quality of technical resources for universal access to quality reproductive health services. Above all, it will be a question of highlighting the relevant recommendations for the provision of SRH in a sustainable, efficient, effective and equitable manner.
Chair
- Pr Awa Marie COLL-SECK, Minister of State, Chair of the CN- EITI, Chair of the Scientific Committee (Senegal)
Keynotes
- Pr Senait FISSEHA, Director of Global Programs, Susan Buffet Foundation (Ethiopia/USA)
- Dr. Pape Amadou GAYE, Founding President of Baobab Institute for Health and Development (Senegal)
Panellists: Governance, Regulation, Technical and Financing Challenges
- Dr. Jean-Jacques Mbungani MBANDA – Minister of Health (DRC)
- Pr Issac ADEWOLE – Governance at SEMA Reproductive Health (Nigeria)
- Dr Samukeliso DUBE – Executive Director, FP2020 (Zimbabwe)
- Ms. Christina CHILIMBA – All for Youth Malawi Advocate (Malawi)
- Marian W. WENTWORTH – President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health (USA)
- Mr. Faustin MUKENA – CEO of Africa Resource Center (ARC)
- Dr. Banchi DESSALEGN – Africa Director of Marie Stopes International (MSI)
Panelists : Power, Resources and the Stakeholders – Identifying Challenges
- Dr. Robert KARGOUGOU, Minister of Health (Burkina Faso) TBC
- Ms. Solange KONE, President of the Federation of Health NGOs of Côte d’Ivoire
- Dr. Amir Aman HAGOS, Senior Advisor, GFF Secretariat (Ethiopia)
- Dr. Mairo MANDARA, Special Advisor and Coordinator of Sustainable Development, Partnerships and Humanitarian Assistance to the Executive Governor of Borno State
Panelists: Forward Looking – Proposed Actions and Solutions
- Dr. Dereje DUGUMA, State minister, ministry of Health (Ethiopia)
- Blaire Sachs HANEWALL, Executive Director, SEMA Reproductive Health (USA)
- Dr. Muhammed Ali PATE, Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard T.H. School of Public Health (Nigeria/USA)
- Arafat KABUGO, Program Coordinator, Naguru Youth Health Network (Uganda)