Strengthening Public Health Emergency Management in Africa: Review Progress, Identify Implementation Bottlenecks, and Plan Next Steps to Optimize Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) Implementation
The African Medicines Agency: a key prerequisite for a safer, healthier and prosperous Africa
The African Medicines Agency: a key prerequisite for a safer, healthier and prosperous Africa Africa’s recurrent health emergencies highlight the urgent need to have an African Medicines Agency (AMA) to enhance national regulation of medical products and oversee rapid market authorization of safe, quality and effective medicines and vaccines across Africa. As the foundations of […]
Harnessing the African Diaspora and Private Sector for Health Innovation and Financing
The African diaspora and private sector together represent Africa’s most underutilized assets for health financing and innovation. Africa CDC’s Green Book entitled “Africa’s Health Financing in A New Era” and the Compact both emphasize the role these two can play in the New Public Health Order for Africa. By bridging these forces through structured engagement, […]
Shaping Respectful and Action-Oriented Partnerships for a Safer and Healthier Africa
The Africa CDC serves as the institutional platform that translates its vision of the New Public Health Order (NPHO) of cultivating partnerships built on trust, transparency, and shared ownership, and ensuring that collaboration delivers tangible impact for Africa’s people. At the margins of the Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) 2025, the Directorate of […]
Partnerships and innovations to overcome the growing threat of antimalarial drug resistance
Anti-malaria drug resistance is a pressing public health threat that endangers the gains Africa has achieved in malaria control and elimination efforts over the previous decades. Malaria, especially severe malaria, which claims over 600,000 lives globally each year, remains a critical global health threat. This is especially relevant in the African context, as over 90 […]
Strengthening Emergency Response Through Legal Preparedness
Africa has faced recurrent and complex public health emergencies from the HIV/AIDS epidemic to Ebola spillovers, COVID-19, Mpox, and the ongoing cholera outbreaks of 2025. These crises have shown that medical and technical capacities alone are insufficient without strong, rights-based legal frameworks to ensure timely, coordinated, and equitable responses. Yet, across the continent, significant legal […]
National Outbreak Preparedness & Response in African Union Member States: A Roadmap & Good Practice Guide
There is growing interest in understanding the long-term impacts of international deployments on national health systems, particularly in terms of capacity strengthening, preparedness, and resilience. To address this, Africa CDC and the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) conducted a multi-country impact study. The findings of this study were validated through a high-level workshop […]
Strengthening Integrated Life-Course Immunization Initiatives in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The open session brings together the Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) program implementing partners, Member state Ministries of Health EPI directors to champion the course for the establishment of a sustainable, integrated, life-course immunization model that provides equitable access to vaccines for all demographic groups through: i. Expounding on the concept of life-course immunization as […]