Meet Our Conference Speakers

AfHEA 2025

Meet Conference speakers

Key note speakers

Dr. Michel Hamala Sidibé

Champion of Health Equity and African-Led Solutions

Dr. Donald Kaberuka

7th President of the African Development Bank Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors (2005-2015)

Dr. Muhammed Semakula

Head of Department of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, and health financing

Mr. Farooq Siddiqui

Vice President of Mediheal Hospital Kigali, Rwanda

Mr. Hannington Namara

Managing Director of Equity Bank Rwanda

Plenary speakers

Dr. Charles Birungi

Global lead for macroeconomic and fiscal policy at UNAIDS

Professor Ama Pokuaa Fenny

Head of the Economics Division at (ISSER), University of Ghana

Mr. Sibusiso Sibandze

Ag. Director General, ECSA Health Community | Health Economist

Prof. Laurent Musango

WHO Representative Madagascar

Dr. Patrick G. Ilboudo

Senior Health Economist, Health Economics and Financing Programme at Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq

National Coordinator for the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp)

Dr. Kamil Shoretire

Director, Health Planning Research & Statistics Federal Ministry of Health & Social Welfare

Dr. Ritgak Asabe Tilley-Gyado

Senior Health Specialist, Health, Nutrition and Population The World Bank Group

Dave MacConalogue

Senior Health adviser Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Dr. Lesong Conteh

Health economist specializing in the economics of infectious diseases, diagnostics, and health system performance across Africa.

Dr. Sara Al Dallal

President of the Emirates Health Economics Society