Webinar 4 25 November 2025

Streamlining regulatory and ethics approvals

13:00 - 15:00 CET

This session will examine how to harmonize, simplify, and accelerate approvals for regulatory and ethics approvals across the continent. Topics include the potential for regional ethics review mechanisms, regulatory reliance models, and leveraging clinical trial networks.

Rewatch the sessions below. You can download the full presentations here.

Streamlining regulatory and ethics approvals

13:00 - 13:55 CET

Research capacity activities in clinical trials

  • Caxton Murira, Science for Africa Foundation 

Reliance in clinical trials

  • Lada Leyens, Takeda on behalf of IFPMA

 A digital platform for clinical trial approval

  • Adriaan Kruger & Marina Lazaridis, nuvoteQ Foundation

Moderated Panel Session

  • Kwasi Nyarko, AVAREF
  • David Mukanga, Gates Foundation
  • Elvis Temfack, Africa CDC
  • Caroline Macharia, J&J
  • Angelika Joos, MSD on behalf of IFPMA
  • Keymanthri Moodley, Emeritus Professor – Stellenbosch University, SA & Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA