Dr Edem Adzogenu, Africa CDC’s Senior Advisor on Innovation and Digitization, received an award for excellent work in developing Multi-stakeholder platforms supporting Africa’s SME and Bio-Innovation Ecosystem.
Dr Adzogenu, got the award on 19 May at the launch of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Africa CDC convened the Trusted Health Alliance as part of the 4D Initiative to develop a transcontinental digital health platform in collaboration with AfroChampions and PanaBios in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,
The Trusted Health platform builds on Africa’s innovation leadership in creating the world’s first vaccine passport in 2020 and networking health labs across multiple continents to ring-fence Africa from infection using diagnostic data analytics.
The platform has evolved into an AI-enabled universal health wallet and the digital marketplace.
