Africa Young Innovators For Health Award Ceremony
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Awards Information
Join the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award official
ceremony to celebrate African Innovation on Thursday, 16 September and
discover the first-ever winners of this prestigious Award.
Today’s changemakers, innovators, and leaders of tomorrow, African
Youth have shown their potential in solving pressing healthcare
challenges in their communities, even in the face of an unprecedented
global pandemic.
The Award is The International Federation of Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa (SUA)’s flagship program celebrating the pioneering young entrepreneurs
whose work advances health across the region by helping Award winners
bring their innovations to life. The Award focuses on supporting young
innovators develop their business ideas and advance promising solutions
to support, equip, protect, and train healthcare workers who have been
working tirelessly to protect and treat the public amidst the COVID-19
pandemic. This is done through $75,000 in financial support across the
three winners, a business mentorship programme, media training, expert
advice on IP protection, where relevant, as well as access to a network
of supporters and partners working across digital, healthcare, and
media.
The three Award winners will be revealed live at the Award Ceremony,
where health leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs will gather online
to highlight the important role innovation, especially amongst young
people in Africa, plays in tackling some of the most pressing healthcare
challenges on the continent.
Award winners will be joined by high-profile personalities who are
making an impact on the continental healthcare landscape through policy,
innovation, and business. These include (in order of appearance):
* Elizabeth Ntonjira, Global Communication Director, Amref Health
Africa.
* Professor Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of State of Senegal
* Thomas B. Cueni, Director General of IFPMA
* Yacine Djibo, Executive Director, Speak Up Africa
* Sobel Aziz Ngom, Executive Director, Consortium Jeunesse Sénégal
* Vèna Arielle Ahouansou, CEO of KEA Medicals
* Carl Manlan, Business Mentor, Africa Young Innovators for Health
Award
* Pape Amadou Gaye, Founder and Executive Director, Baobab Institute
* Dr. Moredreck Chibi, Regional Innovation Adviser, WHO AFRO
* Dr. Lindiwe Makubalo, Assistant Regional Director, WHO AFRO
* Nicole Kayode, CEO, Medixus
* Karim Bendhaou, Head, IFPMA Africa Engagement Committee, Head of
Africa Bureau, Merck
* Dr. Margaret Agama-Anyetei, Acting Director of Health and
Humanitarian Affairs, African Union Commission
The Africa Young Innovators for Health Award is supported by AMREF
Health Africa , BroadReach , Ecobank Academy , Forum Galien
Africa , IntraHealth International, Microsoft4Afrika , the
Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle , the RBM
Partnership to End Malaria , and Social Change Factory ,
alongside our media partners: Africa.com , Télésud , and
SciDev.Net
To learn more about the Young Innovators for Health Award, please visit
https://africayounginnovatorsforhealth.org
To register please visit https://mailchi.mp/,/register-your-interest