Keynote Address
Mimi Choon-Quinones, Founder & Board Chairwoman (pro-bono)
Partners For Patients NGO

Translating from EU to Africa to Empower Patient Involvement and Access to Healthcare

African healthcare is at a crossroad. African leaders take bold steps to push patient involvement in healthcare decision-making and access to the forefront of health policy. The continent finds itself at a critical juncture as the new frontier for research and innovation. While developing sustainable, evidence-based health system strategies to meet expanding population needs presents significant challenges, opportunities to leverage global perspectives and knowledge abound-- and HEOR is poised to play a critical role.

Through her extensive advocacy work in Africa, the NGO she has been involved with for almost 3 decades has been recently selected as the partner of choice by the Pan African Parliament of the African Union to codify a continental strategy around patient access. Mimi Choon-Quinones will share her experience on building healthcare capacity to beat cancer in Africa and reflect on what can and cannot be translated to the region based on the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan. Dr Choon-Quinones will also highlight initiatives between African decision-makers and European leaders and how global HEOR stakeholders can come together to move the needle for health in Africa.