Africa CDC Zambia Conference To Showcase Scientific Discoveries In Public Health

By Wallace Mawire

The Africa Centre for Disease Control’s annual International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA)  is expected to provide a unique African-led platform for leaders across the continent to showcase new and exciting scientific discoveries while advancing programmes and policies to create more resilient health systems, according from a close source at the Global Health Strategies in Nairobi, Kenya.

According to the source, the CPHIA 2022 focused on the crossroads  between post-pandemic recovery and future pandemic preparedness  at which the continent found itself in 2022.

He said that the CPHIA 2023, scheduled for 27 to 30 November 2023 in Lusaka, Zambia, will take a more forward-looking approach, highlighting how stakeholders across the continent are breaking barriers and disrupting the status quo through cutting-edge science and programming under the theme “Breaking Barriers: Repositioning Africa in the global health architecture.”

The nine  tracks that will be discussed during this year’s CPHIA 2023 to be deliberated on by public health experts include  Epidemiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Management of Emerging and Re-emerging High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) in Africa,increasing Local Production in Africa: Advocacy, Research and Development Capacity in Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Vaccine Manufacturing,strengthening Health Systems for Equitable and Universal Health Coverage in Africa, Women in Health – from Recipients to Providers to Leaders,safeguarding Africa’s Health Security: health emergencies, biosecurity, climate change, and multi-sectoral response mechanisms, Digital Innovations in Health – Delivering Universal, Affordable, Connected and Resilient Health Systems, Whole-of-society – the Power of Engaging Civil Society, Philanthropy, Community Actors, and the Private Sector,      A Renewed focus on Africa’s Major Infectious Diseases: HIV, TB and Malaria and NTDs and      Non-Communicable Diseases – a Growing Public Health Threat in Africa.