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The Clinical Trials Community African Network (CTCAN) Consortium has launched a tool to provide a set of assessments for clinical research centers in Africa. The Clinical Trial Preparedness Compendium can guide health professionals in implementing quality management systems for conducting clinical trials and accelerating local manufacturing.
The tool aims to enable increased, sustainable and coordinated clinical trials in Africa. CTCAN’s work is supported by the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (JU),
With the climate crisis weakening health systems in Africa, the compendium helps research centers identify and address gaps in their clinical trials preparedness and ultimately speed local manufacturing, especially during crises.
Our take: Africa currently imports more than 95% of its pharmaceutical ingredients, leaving it exposed to global supply shocks, donor funding cuts and rising costs…Read more (2 min)
Advisory firm Management Sciences for Health is leading this month’s jobs roundup. It is recruiting across 22 African countries in a single wave. The scale and distribution point to a deliberate push to build health service delivery and systems resilience at continental level. It also signals institutional growth and long-term health capacity.
Kenya’s healthcare sector shows widening corporate demand. Johnson & Johnson seeks oncology talent and Shalina Healthcare is recruiting for trade and sales. Maxicare Healthcare Corporation is expanding strongly and ranks second in this month's hiring round, adding roles in client services, treasury, account management and provider network supervision.
Philanthropic organisations are not left out. They have roles in policy and delivery. UNICEF, Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Gates Foundation seek to expand in health delivery, monitoring, communications and policy.
Find the full list of jobs here…Read more (2 min)
South Africa offers the highest minimum salaries for top healthcare executives among four countries analysed in a new salary benchmarking by Healthcare Rising in collaboration with recruiter Shortlist. General management leaders start at $123,500 annually, way ahead of Kenya at $95,000, Nigeria at $85,500 and Egypt at $80,750.
In the “retention benchmark”, which is pay deemed to keep top professionals from being poached, South Africa tops at $162,500. Kenya comes second at $125,000, Nigeria at $112,500 and Egypt at $106,250.
In exceptional cases, premium rates are offered especially by large multinationals that compete for scarce senior talent. Here, a South African healthcare leader may earn nearly $100,000 more than a peer in Kenya and more than $110,000 above Egypt.
Our take: South Africa’s deeper private-sector health markets directly translate into higher salaries…Read more (2 min)
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WHO, Africa CDC launch an emergency response network to counter regional health crises
Events
🗓️ Participate in the World Health Expo in Kenya (October 6)
🗓️ Attend the Healthcare Innovation Summit in South Africa (October 22)
🗓️ Attend the International Conference on Public Health in SA (October 24)
Various
💉 Africa puts health at the heart of climate talks
💉 Kenya pushes for one health approach across Africa
💉 Experts launch a climate and health curriculum for African negotiators
Seen on LinkedIn
Mike Adeyemi Lawal, an infectious disease specialist at Doctors Without Borders, says, “For years, electronic health records (EHRs) were viewed as a distant luxury in this setting. Today, however, that perception is shifting as more clinics and hospitals move beyond pilot projects to real, operational implementation.”_____