Date

2022/8/26 (Fri)17:00-18:30（JST）

Field

Vaccines

Type of Event

Online Webinar

Co-Host

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges in the deployment of health care products including vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Vaccination is a cornerstone of response to the spread of infectious diseases. Fast-tracked vaccine development and deployment at the global level have been seen as a significant success. However, with 99% of vaccines being imported, Africa remains overly dependent on imports of COVID-19 vaccines due to its limited capacity to manufacture vaccines locally.
To boost capacity for local vaccine production, there are on-going efforts to address the gap in vaccine production capacity. Toward ensuring equal access to vaccines, concerted efforts to enhance research and development, harmonize regulatory systems, and establish local vaccine manufacturing and delivery mechanisms that will lead to sustainable vaccine lifecycle management in Africa are needed.
To seek potential options to enhance vaccine lifecycle management in Africa, this event sheds light on the current progress of vaccine development and deployment in Africa with a particular focus on successes and challenges in research and development, regulatory systems and manufacturing. The event also endeavors to build the solid network of partners between Africa and Japan to explore opportunities for collaboration in order to create a robust enabling environment for vaccine lifecycle management from development to delivery that will ultimately contribute to resilient health security for all in Africa.

Key Questions

• What current progress, successes and challenges can be observed in research and development, regulation and manufacturing of vaccines in Africa and Japan?
• How can the capacity for research and development, regulatory systems and production be increased through collaborations between partners in Africa and Japan
• What are viable paths towards building a robust enabling environment for sustainable vaccine lifecycle management in Africa?

Objective

To develop, consolidate and broaden the network of partners between Africa and Japan by exchanging and generating ideas and key lessons related to vaccine lifecycle management with focus on R&D, regulatory systems and manufacturing, towards ensuring equitable access to vaccines in Africa.

Speakers

Dr. Ahmed Ogwell OUMA

Acting Director, Africa CDC

Prof. Dorothy YEBOAH-MANU

Director, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana

Prof. Elijah SONGOK

Director, Directorate of Research Capacity Building, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Mr. Eric KARIKARI-BOATENG

Director Centre for Laboratory Services Research, Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA)

Ms. KANASUGI Utako

Advocacy & External Networking Manager, MSF Japan

Dr. Isaac CHIKWANHA

Senior Director, Investment Strategy, Access & Delivery, lobal Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, Japan

Mr. KOGA Daisuke

Division Director, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) Japan

Pasteur Institute of Dakar (tbc)

 

Mr. TAKIZAWA Ikuo

Senior Director, Office for COVID-19 Response, Human Development Department, JICA

etc.

 

*The deadline for registration is 17:00, Thursday, August 25 (Japan time).