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The world's largest climate forum has launched the first coordinated climate-health fund. Finally!
Treezer Michelle Atieno - Editor
More than 35 leading global health philanthropies have launched the Climate and Health Funders Coalition and committed an initial $300 million for climate-health. The Coalition’s inaugural funding effort, announced at COP30 in Brazil, supports climate-health and the implementation of the Belém Health Action Plan.
This is the first time that a coalition of global health philanthropies is investing this amount directly in climate-health and the first formation of a joint fund for climate-health. The partners include the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Wellcome and more.
The partners will agree on annual contributions, but the focus for the first $300 million will be to accelerate solutions, innovations, policies and research on extreme heat, air pollution and climate-sensitive infectious diseases in Africa and other continents.
Our take: The fund’s early priorities like air pollution and infectious diseases align with the most urgent climate-linked health burdens in Africa…Read more (2 min)
PATH, a global health organisation, is hiring in multiple countries across Eastern Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. The roles include a Team Lead in women’s health, a Technical Advisor on TB, a Senior Project Officer in global health programs, a Senior Project Administrator Officer in primary healthcare and more.
This month we analyse over 40 climate-health jobs in Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa with various roles inclined on health programme management.
East Africa leads in new job adverts this month, followed by Southern Africa and Western Africa.
Find the full list here…Read more (2 min)
This month we analyse the growth of ten pharmaceutical companies across Africa using LinkedIn data. The companies include Aspen, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, GSK, Roche, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Bayer. All ten companies have increased their top staff in the past year with a range of between 3% to 37%.
Aspen Pharmacare presents a highly unusual workforce profile. Despite a total headcount of 2,737, the company has the lowest number of sales team, only 46, meaning just 1.7% of its employees are in commercial roles.
A reduction in business roles at Aspen, from 426 to 46 in the past month, is likely due to financial challenges, including the recent loss of a manufacturing contract and export regulations, which led to a notice to fire over 900 staff, an issue still under discussion.
Our take: Companies with moderate total staff but high growth in business staff show that you do not need a large workforce to grow in business…Read more (2 min)
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(Source: Manufacturing Today)
Africa moves to harmonise medical product regulations for stronger health systems
Events
🗓️ Attend the 2025 G20 in South Africa (November 22)
🗓️ Attend the Conference on AIDS and STIs in Ghana (December 3)
🗓️ Participate in the Medical Science Conference in Australia (December 6)
Various
💉 First Africa Health Summit champions local financing
💉 Ethiopia confirms outbreak of Marburg virus
💉 South Korean robot performs first African surgery
Seen on LinkedIn
James Dennis, a Health Innovation Technician, says, “Ethnic diversity must be considered at every stage of health and wellbeing product development, not added as an afterthought.”______________