Deadline for Submission: 17th October 2025

About the Challenge 

In commemoration of World Mental Health Day (WMHD) 2025, Africa CDC through its flagship intervention, the Africa CDC Mental Health Leadership Programme (MHLP) invites its alumni’s (graduates to participate in the MHLP Alumni in Action Challenge. This initiative aims to showcase the incredible work MHLP graduates and fellows are leading across Africa to strengthen mental health systems, promote human rights- based approaches, integration of mental health into primary health care and advancing the inclusion of service users and people with lived experience in all levels of mental health advocacy. 

Who Can Apply? 

All graduates and fellows of the Mental Health Leadership 

Programme (MHLP) across all the 4 Pillars (Pillar 1: Koffi Anan, Pillar 2: FETP, Pillar 3: Short courses and Pillar 4: participants trained by the Networking and civil society engagement) of the Programme who are actively engaged in activities and initiatives that seek to advance Mental Health in their respective countries. 

Themes: 

• Human right-based mental health 
• Mental health systems strengthening in a context of global funding challenges 
• Integration of mental health into primary health care: community centered approach. 

What Are We Looking For? 

We invite you to share short a short summary and video of your work and impact

All short videos should not exceed 5 minutes 

Your submission should highlight: 

• Your current mental health initiative or activity that includes advancing mental health. 
• How your work addresses human rights-based mental health or mental health systems strengthening or Integration of mental health into primary health care in the context of global funding challenges. 
• The impact your initiative is making in your community. 

NB: Cross-countries and group initiatives are encouraged since MHLP is a community of cross border learning and networking. 

Submission Guidelines 

• Format: Video (MP4 preferred) maximum 5 minutes.  
• Language: All African Union official languages (subtitles encouraged, sign language interpretation encouraged). 
• Deadline: 17th October 2025 
• How to Submit:
  • complete the form -> HERE

Selection and Award 

A review panel comprising representatives from Africa CDC, CBM Global, and MHIN will evaluate submissions based on impact, innovation, and alignment with the theme. 

The winner(s) will receive an Africa CDC sponsored invitation to participate in the 7th Global Mental Health Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, 10-12 November 2025. 

Why Participate? 

• Gain visibility for your work through Africa CDC, MHIN, and partner platforms. 
• Inspire and learn from fellow MHLP graduates. 
• Contribute to shaping inclusive mental health systems across Africa. 

Join us in amplifying African leadership in mental health! 

For inquiries, contact: mhlp@africacdc.org cc:mhin@lshtm.ac.uk

“MHLP Graduates in Action: Shaping Inclusive Mental Health for All” 

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Africa Health ExCon 2025 (Health ExCon 2025) marks a defining moment for the continent’s public health journey. Held under the auspices of H.E. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and with the esteemed presence of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, this year’s gathering reaffirms Africa’s commitment to health sovereignty. 

Africa CDC is a proud co-host of the Health ExCon 2025, alongside our diligent colleagues of the Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement (UPA) and in collaboration with AUDA_NEPAD, this year’s edition places local manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and knowledge sharing at the center of the conversation. We have high ambitions that ExCon 2025 will build on the success of past editions to elevate the role of innovation, local manufacturing, and AI-driven public health across the continent. 

Africa Health ExCon 2025 is more than a global health exhibition; it’s a continental launchpad for Africa’s health future, it’s in fact a movement. As Africa’s premier platform for health innovation, investment, and collaboration, ExCon 2025 brings together governments, private sector leaders, frontline workers, and youth innovators. 

Join us as we shape a new order for public health, one where Africa’s health future is not imported, but imagined, built, and led from within. At the heart of it all is a clear message: 
Africa’s health future will not be imported. It will be imagined, built, and led from within.

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The training aims to expand the pool of qualified data safety monitoring board (DSMB) members by upscaling the availability of trained experts in safety monitoring. The program works to support the ethical oversight of vaccine clinical trials in Africa and improve global preparedness for emerging health threats. The program is an 8-week training that includes self-paced learning and live virtual sessions facilitated by leading experts in vaccine safety and clinical trial monitoring. Upon successful completion, participants can then join the DSMB global pool, where they may be considered for future clinical trial oversight roles.

Safety monitoring in clinical trials is crucial to ensure ethical research practices and protecting participant’s well-being. Adverse events can arise during the administration of investigational products, requiring rigorous oversight to assess risks and ensure timely interventions. DSMB plays a vital role in reviewing clinical trial data, safeguarding trial participants, and maintaining the integrity of study results. To strengthen DSMB expertise continentally, Africa CDC, in collaboration with the Safety Platform for Emergency Vaccines (SPEAC), will offer a structured DSMB training course that will robustly build the capacity of training participants to undertake the very crucial role of monitoring clinical trials for vaccines and other new treatment platforms in Africa and elsewhere to confront emerging and reemerging public health threats.

What the Training Covers

The eight-week-long intensive training course will employ a modular format, combining recorded lectures with live virtual sessions, an approach that ensures flexibility while maintaining interactive learning environment. Expert trainers and subject matter specialists drawn from across the world will facilitate sessions, leveraging their real-world experience to provide high-quality instruction.

• Introduction to Clinical Trials & DSMB
• Vaccine Clinical Trials & Safety Monitoring
• DSMB Roles & Decision-Making
• Regulatory & Ethical Considerations
• Safety Monitoring & Risk Assessment
• Statistical Methods for DSMB
• DSMB Meetings & Case Discussions
• Practical Applications, quizzes and final assessment
• Stronger Regulatory and Ethical Compliance.
• Better equipped to align clinical trial practices with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), regulatory requirements, and ethical guidelines.
• Reduction in protocol deviations or violations that compromise study integrity.
• Strengthened regional capacity to conduct high-quality trials without over-reliance on external expertise.
• Enhanced ability to analyze interim data and make informed safety decisions during clinical trials.
• Sustained Capacity for Vaccine Safety Surveillance.

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Scaling vaccine manufacturing and R&D across the continent to meet PAVM’s 2040 ambitions will require quadrupling the vaccine workforce to approximately 12,500 full-time employees (FTEs). Currently, there is a scarcity of vaccine development and manufacturing talent in Africa. Today, this talent totals between 2,000 and 3,000 FTEs, of whom many are associated with R&D entities that are not fully vaccine dedicated. Within this existing talent base, there is a lack of key manufacturing capabilities including drug substance and manufacturing R&D.

How to Apply: To apply, please complete the form at the link: rb.gy/20uhj6

Eligibility:
The industrial fellowship programme is targeted at recent (not more than 3 years) graduates (Bachelors and Masters) of the following and/or related fields:

• Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Biotechnology

Application Deadline: 30th May 2025

Selected candidates notification: 15th June 2025

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