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 21st 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