BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING STEERING COMMITTEE
Indigenous manufacture of biopharmaceuticals is severely limited in Africa which depends on imports for nearly 80% of its requirements. The foreign companies, who have developed vaccines for COVID-19, are enabling the Africa Union to launch a platform for partnerships that augurs well for drug production in Africa. The mission is to promote collaboration, investment, technology transfer, workforce development, and leverage governmental support to overcome the impediments of growth of achieving self-sufficiency of manufacturing in the continent.
MEMBERS
Janet Byaruhanga
Senior Program Officer, Public Health, AUD-NEPAD
Dr. Prashant Yadav, Think-tank Fellow, Professor, & Researcher. CGDEV, INSEAD and Harvard Med. Supply Chains for Medical Products
Hala Audi, Chief Executive Officer, Unizima
Yogeeta Mangalani, Head of Strategy, Marketing & Product, Unizima
Stavros Nicolaou, Group Senior Executive, Strategic Trade Development, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings
Azuka Okeke, CEO, ARC_ESM, Nigeria
Palu Dhanani, Managing Director, Universal Corporation, Kenya
Dr. Nico Vandaele, Prof., Operations Research & Operations Management,
KU Leuven (Belgium)
Nick Bertrand Ntahokaja, Strategic Initiatives Advisor, Unizima (the Univercells Group)
Jean-Pierre Tai, Business Development Manager, Unizima (the Univercells Group)
Dr. Cheikh Tidiane Diagne, Head of Operations, diaTROPIX, Institut Pasteur de Dakar
Pie Harerimana, CEO, Rwanda Medical Supplies (RMS)
Inés Buki, USAID Country Director, USAID
Ben Leyka, Chief Executive officer, African Agricultural Council (South Africa)
Eric Santkin, Trade and Investment Commissioner, Belgium (based in Rwanda covering Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia)
Vicki M. Chilton, Chief of Staff, Integrum Scientific
David Karia, Programs & Grants Manager, MedSource Group, Kenya
Blaise Ndome, Executive Director, African Pharmaceutical Distribution Association
Franck Toussaint, Managing Director, BSMA Europe
Devendra Mishra, Executive Director & Co-Founder, BSMA