This week is the final installment in our collaboration with Bisi Bright’s Livewell Initiative and the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme with support from Gilead Sciences USA. In a fitting conclusion, Aggrey Aluso, the Director, Africa Region and global policy lead for the Pandemic Action Network, driving strategic advocacy efforts in Africa and globally joins the conversation. Born, raised and currently based in Kenya, Aggrey also serves as the incoming Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), PAN’s networked advocacy partner, where he is mobilizing advocates to champion an Africa-centric, globally-facing resilience agenda.

He brings over 15 years of experience in advancing intersectional justice, using citizen-led, rights-based approaches in Africa. Previously, he served as an Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa’s (OSIEA) Health and Rights program senior manager. He also coordinated the Open Society Africa (Pan Africa) Vaccine Justice to advance Africa’s vaccine-related research, development, and manufacturing. He served as the University of Manitoba’s Global Institute for Public Health’s East African Policy and Advocacy Manager.

Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, Aggrey offers excellent insights into the current M-pox crisis as well as a thoughtful discussion on the global policy landscape around elevating health as a human right for all.
All are invited to join this week’s program on Thursday, October 31st at 1PM WAT using this link

Where to find Aggrey?
On LinkedIn
On [Instragram](linnk https://www.instagram.com/aggreyaluso/)
On Facebook
On X

What’s Aggrey reading?
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
21 Lessons for the 21st Century and other books by Yuval Noah Harari

Whats Aggrey watching?
The Lincoln Lawyer
New Amsterdam

Other topics of interest:
Nyanza, Kenya
More on Mpox and zoonotic diseases
UN Summit of the Future
The Global Fund
Kenya Finance Bill Protests
About Wangari Maathai
About the [Mpox Joint Action Plan](https://www.afro.who.int/news/african-cdc-and-who-launch-joint-continental-plan-scale-mpox-outbreak-response#:~:text=Priority%20actions%20are%20outlined%20for,comprising%20members%20from%20key%20partners.&text=About%20Africa%20CDC-,The%20Africa%20Centres%20for%20Disease%20Control%20and%20Prevention%20(Africa%20CDC,prevention%20and%20control%20of%20diseases.)
The Man Died Film

Special Guests: Adebisi Bright and Aggrey Aluso.

I’m back on the road with this conversation which finds my guest and I in opposite sides of the United Kingdom--me in London, UK and my guest, Dr. Motolani Oyerinde, in Scotland.

Dr. Tolani, joins us in the next installment of our colloboration with Bisi Bright’s Livewell Initiative and the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme with support from Gilead Sciences USA. She is currently Managing Partner at Crystal Mental Healthcare and Health Education Services as well as Senior Family Health Officer at Livewell Initiative. Over the course of her carreer she has worked assiduously in the areas of training, peer leadership, and corporate health. She has co-facilitated as Faculty Trainer in Hepatitis, at a continental Africa regional rraining program in Hepatitis targeting delegates from 15 African countries. Under the LiveWell Initiative’s Volunteer Membership scheme, she became an award-winning Young Doctor participating in several health outreaches, health fairs and corporate health mIssions. Since the advent of the pandemic, she has been particulalry focused on proviving mental health support via LWIs Telehealth services platform.

Be sure to visit the LiveWell Initiative for up to date information about upcoming events.

Where to find Tolani?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook

What’s Tolani reading?
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Practical Optimism: The art, science, and practice of exceptional well-being by Dr. Sue Varma
Why Am I Like This? How to Break Cycles, Heal From Trauma, and Restore Your Faith by Kobe Campbell

What’s Tolani watching?
Africa Magic TV

Other topics of interest:
About Ogun State, Nigeria
Scotland, UK
The Egocentric and Sociocentric Self
Suicide Prevention Month

Special Guests: Adebisi Bright and Motolani Oyerinde.

It’s a season of transformation from the vibrancy of summer sun to the rest, retreat and make ready energy of winter. Here on the podcast we’re taking this time to explore new collaborations in conjunction with events happening in the coming months. First up is a collaboration with the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme which is an intitaitve of Glocal Citizen Adebisi Bright’s LiveWell Initiative based in Lagos Nigeria. This series of conversations with the practitioners partcipating in the progamme is a sneak preview of the upcoming dialogues.
My guest this week, Egyptian pharmacist and entrpreneur, Dr. Wael Ali is a distinguished leader in pharmacy and public health with nearly 25 years of experience spanning clinical research, healthcare management, and international collaboration. As the President of the PharmaHelp Foundation Inc. and the Egyptian Organization of Pharmacy, he drives pharmacy practice transformation and workforce development. His roles as Vice President of FIP’s EMROpharm Forum and Executive Committee Consultant at the University of Sharjah highlight his commitment to advancing pharmaceutical education and practice. He also has extensive pharmaceutical manufacturing experience as a CEO of American Pharmaceutical Industries based in Farifax, Virginia. His expertise spans community, hospital, military and emergency pharmacy practices as well as social and administrative pharmacy functions across Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC, and the USA.

If you ever wondered about what goes on behind the counter in your local pharmacy, this conversation will help shine a light on the many roles and responsibilities your neighborhood pharmacist often takes on. As an added bonus, Wael give us a crash course on the ins and outs of manufacturing and exporting made in the USA products.

Where to find Wael?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

Other topics of interest:
Historic Cairo, Egypt
Gulf Cooperation Council
On [Liposome Manufacturing](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169409X20300788#:~:text=Liposomes are manufactured either by,manipulated for size (Section 2.1.)
About Medwatch
CIF vs FOP Shipping
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
WHO facts on Hepatitis

Special Guests: Adebisi Bright and Wael Ali.