2nd EU-Africa PerMed Stakeholder Workshop

20^th-21^st FEBRUARY 2023

Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Local Hosts: South African Medical Research Council.

The EU-Africa PerMed Second Stakeholder Workshop was held on 20^th and 21^st of February 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa was the first on-site meeting following the first stakeholder workshop meeting hosted online organised by the EU-Africa PerMed Project. It was held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa and was hosted by the SAMRC, with contribution from other consortium members.

The aim of the stakeholder’s workshop was to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on the findings from prior activities carried out by EU-Africa PerMed. Specifically, the workshop objectives were: To review the PM landscape in Africa from various regional outcomes; Validate the gaps and needs identified for developing areas of interest; Validate and refine areas of mutual interest between Africa and Europe; Understand the importance, challenges and opportunities as well as to develop models of collaboration between Africa and Europe (governance, funding, partnerships, training program, etc.); and Reflect on models of collaboration for developing PM in the different regions of Africa.

The results of the workshop will feed into the project activities of carrying out the identification and collection of areas of mutual interest between Africa and Europe and validation of results already obtained during the project. The workshop outcomes will furthermore be considered for the ‘Action Plan for African-European collaboration in Personalised medicine developed by EU-Africa PerMed.’

The workshop was a hybrid meeting with 164 attendees (113 in-person and 51 online), including key representatives from government, academia, and industry such as health system policymakers, researchers, regulatory authorities, funding agencies, science councils, healthcare providers, researchers, scientific societies, regional technology developers and international organizations, from Africa and Europe.

The concept note for the workshop is available here.

The agenda of this event is also available here.

An internal workshop report is available upon request. Please, contact project coordination team, Erika Sela: erika.sela[at]innovatec.es

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Wiew	Title
	Day 1 – 20th February 2023
	The EU-Africa PerMed project: Introduction to the project and objectives of the workshop / Erika Sela, INNOVATEC (SPAIN).
	Implementing Pharmacogenomics Testing for Effective Care and Treatment in Africa (iPROTECTA) / Collen Masimirembwa (ZIMBAWE) & Julia Stingl (GERMAN).
	The value of EU AU collaboration in PM research: Global Health Clinical Pharmacology: collaborative research with African partners / Prof. Dr. Julia C. Stingl (GERMAN).
	Findings from the Personalised Medicine gaps and needs analysis of the African regions / Monika Frenzel, ANR.
	Personalised Medicine Gaps and Needs analysis in African regions: The East Africa Region / Teresia Nyawira, NACOSTI (KENYA).
	Personalised Medicine Gaps and Needs analysis in African regions North Africa-Egypt / Amr Radwan, ECITD (EGYPT).
	Personalized Medicine in North Africa Region: Current Status in Algeria / Prof. Mostefa Bensaada (ALGERIA).
	Personalized Medicine in North Africa Region: Current status in Morocco / Prof. Elmostafa El Fahime, Functional Genomic Platform-CNRST-Rabat (MOROCCO).
	Personalized Medicine in West and Central Africa: Gaps and Needs analysis / Dr. Abdul Karim Sesay, MRC Unit, The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
	Africa’s Areas of Mutual Interest in Personalised Medicine / Rizwana Mia (SAMRC).
	List of interests for international collaboration in Personalised Medicine from the European perspective / Monika Frenzel, Agence National de la Recherche, ICPerMed.
	Day 2 – 21st February 2023
	ICPerMed, ERA PerMed, and the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine / Monika Frenzel, Agence National de la Recherche (FRANCE).
	Models for collaboration between Europe and Africa in Personalized Medicine / Prof. Patrice Debre, INSERM (FRANCE).
	Personalized Medicine in North Africa: PerMediNA / Ph.D. Yosr Hamdi.
	Africans Genomic Study: the Next Frontier of Global Genetic Medicine / Prof. Ambroise Wonkam, GeneMAP Director, H3Africa Chair.
	European Alliance of Medical Research Infrastructures / Paula Garcia, ECRIN.
	CIHR-EU Partnerships in Personalized Medicine / Ph.D. Étienne Richer, CIHR Institute of Genetics.