We are very pleased that PASCAL Director, Catherine Odora Hoppers will be a panellist at AFRICA APPG African Health Leaders High-Level Panel Debate, on Tuesday 21^st October 2014 in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, London  from 3 – 5.30pm.

This high-level panel discussion will bring together Parliamentarians, Ambassadors and High Commissioners from African countries, and leading British experts on health in Africa to discuss African health leadership and the new relationship African Health Leaders seek from the UK and other partner countries.

Below you will find a list of some of those involved. 

Chair

Baroness Glenys Kinnock, House of Lords, Africa APPG

Speakers

Dr. Francis Omaswa, former Director General of Health Services in Uganda and currently Director of African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST)

Lord Nigel Crisp, co-editor with Dr Omaswa of African Health Leaders, published by OUP

Dr Luis Sambo, Executive Director of the African Region of WHO

Dr. Uche Amazigo, formerly Director of the African Programme for Onchoceriasis control

Professor Catherine Odora-Hoppers, South African Research Chair in Education & Director of  Pascal International Observatory, University of South Africa.

Parliamentarians

Baroness Kinnock

Lord Crisp

Baroness Armstrong

Baroness Helene Hayman

Lord Naren Patel

Ms Pauline Latham, MP

Baroness Masham

Baroness Caroline Cox

Lord Kakkar TBC

High Commissioners/Ambassadors

H.E Sabit Abbe Alley, South Sudanese Embassy

H.E Amar Abba, Algerian Embassy

Ambassador Jackline Yonga - Deputy Head, Kenya High Commission

H E Nkwelle Ekaney, High Commissioner for the Republic of Cameroon

H.E. Mr. Edward M. Turay, High Commissioner of the Republic of Sierra Leone

H.E Sabit Abbe Alley, South Sudanese Embassy

H.E Amar Abba, High Commissioner to Algeria

HE Obed Mlaba, High Commissioner, South Africa

HE Mr Miguel Gasper Fernandes Neto, High Commissioner, Angola

Health Experts/others

Richard Dowden, Royal Africa Society

Howard Lyons, Head of Healthcare UK

Dame Mary Archer,

Nicolette Davies, Institute of Global Health Innovation

Sir Eldryd Parry, THET

Prof Ged Byrne, Director for Education & Quality, Health Education England Northwest

Kirsten Everett, Commonwealth Secretariat and Office of Lord Kakkar

TITILOLA BANJOKO, Nigerian Public Health Specialist

Mark Britnell, UK Head of Global Health, KPMP

Jamie Cooper Hohn, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

Jane Miller, DFID

Ursula Grant, Programme Director UK, Addenbrooke’s Abroad

Dr Sue Broster & Jacobus Preller, Senior Clinicians, Addenbrooke’s Abroad

Malcolm Kerr-Muir, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Addenbrooke’s Abroad

Danielle Foe, Office of Eric Joyce, MP