Dr. Wael Ali is President of Egyptian organization of Pharmacy (EOP) and General Secretary of EMROPharm, the European Medicines Regulatory Authority’s Pharmaceutical forum. In addition to his collaborative skills across borders, he doubles as Executive Committee Consultant in the School of Pharmacy at ALSharjah University in the Emirates.

Dr. Wael Ali is a Mentor in the FIP-PharmaBridge Project and an Award Winning Mentor at the AWMC – Agathe Wehrli Mentoring Chair; a global mentoring platform of the LiveWell Initiative LWI. He is a Trainer of Trainers, and a Television Celebrity. A versatile practitioner, he is a Virginia USA registered Chain Store Manager. And CEO and a Council Member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation FIP.

Dr. Catherine Lephoto (PhD) is a Molecular Biologist with a passion for sales and business development. Her education has straddled prestigious institutions across the USA, the UK and South Africa. Catherine’s academic career includes many awards for academic excellence and publications in peer-reviewed and other scientific journals. She received her doctoral degree in Microbial Genetics at the age of 28. Her professional career started in academia and later evolved into corporate. She has held leadership roles in several multinational corporations operating in the food and beverage industry on the African continent. Recently she led the Covid-19 response programme of the Kingdom of Lesotho in the role of Deputy CEO of the National Covid-19 Secretariat, working with cabinet leadership, civil servants, UN agencies and policymakers at the highest level of government. She is the Executive Sales Director, Africa for VX Technologies – a verified health records (VHRTM) company leveraging blockchain technology for storage and verification of health records, starting with Covid-19 vaccination status and later for childhood and other vaccinations. She is a mother of two young boys and currently lives in Johannesburg.

A Distinguished Academician and Policy Technocrat, Neda Milevska-Kostova is President of Studiorum, a regional think-tank working on research and policy aspects of health and wellbeing in Europe. She has over 20 years experience in health research, policy and patient advocacy and is Director of the Institute for Social Innovations.

Neda is a Vice-President of the Health First Europe, umbrella organization based in Brussels, Belgium working on improving access to innovative health technologies in Europe.

Neda also doubles as Vice Chairman of IAPO, a Global Patients’ Organisation in relations with the WHO; and she is President of the IAPO P4PS Observatory which is the Geneva-based ‘watchdog’ for Patient Safety worldwide.

Currently she is a Research Fellow of health policy and management and a Director at the Institute for Social Innovation in Skopje, and post-doctoral researcher at the Radboud University Medical Centre, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

In 2018, Dr. Milevska Kostova was awarded the title Primarius by the Minister of Health for exceptional and long-term commitment and contributions to the development and advancement of healthcare system and health status of the population in North Macedonia.

Neda, a Pharmacist, is very vast and well rounded in every sphere of Global Healthcare and Patient Advocacy. She is the ‘go to’ person on Patient Policy in Europe and the environs; with many peer reviewed open access Scientific Journal publications. She is a Faculty Member of the PAIR Academy.

I am Casimir MANZENGO MINGIEDI, Medical Doctor and Master of Public Health. I am bilingual, Congolese from DRC. I am working for WHO as Regional Hepatitis Advisor, Regional Office for Africa.

I have 26 years of Public Heath experience, beginning by the peripheral level as Clinician in DRC, at the Sub-National level, National level and now at AFRO Region since 2018. As Hepatitis Regional Officer, I am supporting Africa countries to implement the Global Health Sector Strategy and the AFRO Regional Framework for Hepatitis elimination towards 2030. I am providing technical support to the countries in the guideline’s development according to the WHO recommendations.

  In addition, with my strong Public Health and HIV background, as one of pioneers of PMTCT implementation in DRC rural Health Zones, I am assisting countries for the integration of Hepatitis program in the existing services, like HIV services and AnteNatal Care services.

  Finally, I am contributing to the Hepatitis advocacy for Hepatitis awareness as a major public health threat in partnership with all actors, including the Organization of First Ladies in Africa for Development (OAFLAD).

I am therefore excited to present on the global health sector strategy for viral hepatitis during this the 4th Liver Health Confab with the theme ‘The WHO Policy Thrust on PMTCT for Viral Hepatitis’

Catherine Freeland is the Public Health Program Director and Research Fellow at the Hepatitis B Foundation.

She is the current program director of Hep B United Philadelphia, a local community coalition to address hepatitis B-related health disparities within Greater Philadelphia. Her areas of interest are viral hepatitis B, hepatocellular carcinoma, and addressing health disparities. Catherine is currently working towards her Ph.D. at Thomas Jefferson University, College of Population Health with a concentration in Health Behavior Science and pursuing a dissertation to address low hepatitis B birth dose uptake in Nigeria.

Nationally, she is the secretary of the National Task Force for Hepatitis B and manages Hep B United National Programs as well as a Hepatitis B-focused provider training program.

Dr. Clem as he is popularly known, is a Public Health Specialist, is a bureaucrat to the core. His dedication to the Hepatitis Cause, is no doubt ‘engaging’.

Sitting at the desk of the National AIDS/STIs in the Federal Ministry of Health, he proclaimed that ‘funding and political will are vital to the elimination of viral Hepatitis in the country’.

He will be representing the Federal Ministry of Health FMOH, at the #LHC2021.

Kimberly Kirkendall, CPA has been a bridge for international commerce between the U.S. and China for 35 years. She began her career in China, moving there in 1986 after graduating from Ohio State University. She lived in China for five years, where she ran two factories and managed the regional office of a U.S. parent company. During that time she developed a deep understanding and love for the country and its people. Professionally she spent the first ten years of her career in operations, manufacturing and supply chain. The second ten years began with her becoming a CPA and starting her own business as a consultant, both as interim executive for some companies (CFO, VP Operations, General Manager) and as an advisor for others. In addition to the consulting work she leads for IRD, she is a contracted consultant providing services to companies on behalf of multiple US SBDC International Trade offices as well as being a consultant for New Zealand Trade & Enterprise.

Her company, International Resource Development, Inc. improves operations and communication for clients with business in both the U.S. and China. Recent Projects include: Establishing Accounting & HR Systems for a new Chemical Factory, Negotiating and Structuring a Joint Venture, Target Search and Negotiation for an Merger/Acquisition in China, Identifying and Establishing a Distributor Network, Market Analysis & Product / Channel Plan, etc.

Projects in 2021 cover many different countries: US, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina, China, Vietnam, France, etc.

Calvin Q. Pan, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine in NYU Langone Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Pan received his MD degree from the State University of New York in Albany and a residency at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, where he also completed a year of research fellowship in nephrology. After his Gastroenterology and Hepatology training at the Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, Dr. Pan joined the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, followed by the promotion to Assistant Professor in 2004 and Associate Professor in 2010. He went on to serve at the Tisch Hospital of NYU School of Medicine and attained the rank of Full Professor in 2012. Dr. Pan is an internationally recognized expert in viral hepatitis. He has devoted his career to more than 30 clinical trials in the last two decades and advancing our understanding of the natural history, prevention, and antiviral therapy for Hepatitis B or C. Among 200 plus peerreviewed scientific papers and abstracts published, Dr. Pan was the leading author of many original articles presented in the prestigious journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Gut, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, and American Journal of Gastroenterology. He also served as a primary writer for the expert consensus “Asian American Guidelines for Management of Chronic Hepatitis B” and “International Expert Consensus Guidelines on the Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B”. He is an associate editor for several peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the World Journal of Hepatology, Liver Research, and the Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology. Besides academic work, Dr. Pan serves in a variety of leadership roles in professional organizations. He is the Chair-elect of the Hepatitis B Special Interest Group (2021-23) in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), Past Chairman of the Online Learning Committee in AASLD (2017-19), Past Vice President of the Association of Chinese American Physicians (2010-12), and Board Member in the Political Action Committee of the American Gastroenterology Association (2019-22). He is also involved in numerous professional committees, including the International Relationship Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology (2016-19), Committee of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in the Asia Pacific, Committee of the National Task Force on Hepatitis B in the US, Membership and Mentor Committee of the AASLD (2012-15), Global Engagement Committee of the AASLD (2021-23), Education Committee of the American College of Physicians, and a role of district councilor in NY Chapter of the American College of Physicians (2019-22). Recognized by his colleagues, Dr. Pan has received 17 academic awards and accolades for his contributions to medical sciences and patient care. He is the recipient of the James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine from the American College of Physicians in 2018, the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Chinese Society of Infectious Diseases in 2016, and Certificate of Service Appreciation from the American Cancer Society in 2007. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of AASLD and American College of Gastroenterology. As an expert and key opinion leader in his specialty, Dr. Pan serves as a keynote speaker or moderator at many international scientific congresses, expert consultant meetings of the World Health Organization, and Web-CME events.

Dr. Oyeleke is an experienced Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist who has combined her expertise in the field with charitable work through services rendered at the LiveWell Initiative LWI and Women in Hepatitis Africa WIHA in her capacity as a Member, Subject Matter Expert and Volunteer Hepatology Consultant.

She has featured at all the past 3 LWI #LHCs (Liver Health Confabs), and has presented papers at two of them.

A selfless and kind hearted physician, she is well versed in the subject matter of viral hepatitis and has been involved in Research work at the local and global levels.

Dr. Gbonju Abiri, a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians WACP is a Mental Health Physician, Managerial Psychologist, Professional Speaker and the Medical Director of a Private Health Institution.

A Trauma Recovery Specialist and Mental Health Influencer, she is quite adept at handling the subject of ‘Emotional Health’, Trauma, Anxiety and other issues with humor, tact and innovation….she makes it easy for people to understand that there is #NoHealthWithoutMentalHealth.

She is a Faculty Member and Volunteer at the LiveWell Initiative LWI Academy and has run several series of lectures on Mental Health, in corporate organisations, and to ‘mixed’-audiences.

Taiwo Olawehinmi, currently exploring intersections between healthcare and business, is an emerging global health pharmacist who is passionate about health financing and policymaking.

She is an Ashoka Changemaker Scholar with Distinction and has a certificate in Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health and Wellness. An adept Speaker and Trainer, she enjoys helping professionals communicate effectively especially in the ‘workspace’ as a corporate compere and ‘elocution coach’.

She has officiated diverse MUN conferences in West Africa (Model United Nations), with over 20 African countries represented. She is a 2017 CommonPurpose Leader, a 2018 Millennium UNAI Fellow (United Nations Academic Impact) and a 2020 West African Young Leadership (WAYLead) Fellow.

Taiwo is currently an AWMC Enrollee at the LiveWell Initiative LWI Agathe Wehrli Mentoring Chair – a global scientific mentoring platform for Young Professionals in the Medical and Health Sciences.

Ugur, a Digital Engineer, Bioengineering Scientist and alumnus of the Imperial College London, is an International Award winning Innovator who combines Artificial Intelligence AI with Robotics and microfluidics in a unique, and innovative way.

An Automation Engineer and Design Thinker, he recently won the 2020 Mayor of London’s Entrepreneur Health Award.

His work on AI, Blockchain Technology and Social Humanoid Robotics is phenomenal. Through Design Thinking, he is able to revolutionize human the concept of deriving suitable replacements for limbs and other extensions.

Is another ‘Sophia’ on the way? We need to ask Ugur who loves the quote by Warren Buffet “"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.“

His company Unhindr has been selected as one of the 15 most innovative start-ups in Europe by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology of European Union.

Dr. Cristina Bescos, a biomedical engineer, is CEO and Board Member of EIT Health, an organ of the European Union Commission EU and one of the largest healthcare initiatives worldwide.

Leading the EIT Health, a huge network of more than 150 top-notch partners covering the complete value chain of health and care innovation, she oversees its day to day running.

She was previously at the European Space Agency, Hewlett Packard, Telefonica R+D and Philips, where she managed the European Programs in Telehealth and Value-Based Healthcare and developed an extensive career in research, digital health and healthcare transformation.

She recently received the FUTURES50 Innovation Leader Award from #HIMSS as Top 50 Future Leaders in #DigitalHealth in the category of  #Innovation.

Chinenye Chizea, is Chief Information Security Officer at the National Identity Management Commission(NIMC), Nigeria.

She has over 19 years’ professional experience from a diverse background in Information Security, IT management, Enterprise Architecture, Privacy and Compliance. She is named among IFSEC Global's Security & Fire Influencers 2021 Security Executives.

Chinenye is an advocate of implementing best practice security risk controls, common security frameworks and standards within an organization. Her work experience over the years in the UK and in Nigeria has equipped her with the skills and knowledge in Information Security, Information Assurance, Governance and Management of Information Technology (IT), Risk Management, Business Continuity, Systems Security, Compliance and Controls.

She has served in varying committees, and is frequently interviewed, and invited to speak at varying platforms on cybersecurity, privacy, compliance and related corporate governance responsibilities. She holds several industry certifications including CISSP, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Master, MCSE_Private Cloud, OCP, ITIL and Cisco certifications.

In her current role as CISO for National Identity Management Commission, she is accountable for ensuring the security of her organizations information assets as well as driving her organizations certification in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and PCI DSS Program.

She is happily married and blessed with three children.

Dr. Yemi Sanusi, a physician artist and medical activist with special interest in emerging health matters and other topics with animation; obtained her MBBS degree from College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL) and an MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School LBS.

Her writing sample was one of twenty-five selected from over one thousand entries received for the 2010 Farafina Trust 10-day Creative Writing Workshop, in May 2010, led by Chimamanda N. Adichie. Yemi is a member of the West African Institute of Management Consultants WAFIAMC and Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria IMCON and an accredited Management Trainer from the Centre for Management Development CMD, Lagos.

Her past career curve as a Medical Officer took her through the Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Yaba, Lagos as well as Diamond Bank Nigeria, where she conducted marketing research for a new product aimed at a niche in the market. She was also Business Development Manager/Project Manager for the Troika Health Partners, a Health Maintenance Organisation; the Eye Foundation Hospital and Deseret International Hospital Group, as well as its Regional Manager (North), where she oversaw the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme NHIS Millennium Development Goal MDG Project undertaken in Nigeria’s north-western Sokoto State. She also worked at Redbridge Healthcare Management Limited as Senior Health Advisor Research & Projects; Flying Doctors Nigeria as Senior Strategy Advisor; Sanofi, North East Africa as Medical Advisor as well as Glaxosmithkilne Pharmaceutical as Regional Medical Advisor. She is a Consultant for Progressive Management Limited, where she provides consultancy services in areas of Medical Science and Business Administration. Yemi is the author of Heads and Tales, a medical fiction; member of Nigeria Universal Health Coverage Actions Network (NUHCAN) and also the founder of Heritage for Health and Habitat Initiative (H3Initiative), a non-governmental organisation committed to promoting health literacy.She has served as a Volunteer member of the LiveWell Initiative LWI for a decade, and is Coordinator at the LWI Academy.

Eniola Olaosebikan is a creative and in-depth writer with an experience and exposure spanning more than two decades. Her works have been featured in national dailies, international blogs, as well as international anthologies. She holds a Master's degree from the Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom where she studied International Business Management. She is currently an Author of six books. Her most recent women empowerment book titled 'The Treasure in Your Vagina' is fast becoming a best seller on online retail stores, especially on Amazon. When she is not writing, she is busy speaking at conferences and seminars on matters of the soul.

Sunday Ewaoche Itodo is a health enthusiast with extensive knowledge and skills in systems health that few can match. He has contributed to book chapters and published articles indexed in  PMC. With four university degrees including a PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology, a chapter in his book ' A systems approach to vitalism, vaccines and microbes' was recently endorsed by the WHO as global literature for the control of COVID-19. He is a  scientist, virologist, educator and a researcher.

Luna, with a PharmD and a Marketing degree, is a Doctor in Public Health candidate.

She is Founder and manager of "Lunapharm" pharmacy and was elected FIP Executive Committee Member for Africa and the Middle East, Health and Medicines Information Section HMiS. A cersatile activist pharmacist, Luna is also a member of the FIP "Community Pharmacy" section, a member of the FIP "Non-communicable Diseases" Working group and, a member of the Lebanese Order of Pharmacists (OPL) scientific committee.

With more than 20 years of experience in academic, community, and industrial settings, Luna has solid expertise in active research in these areas with multiple publications in renowned journals and is an adjunct preceptor of the "Lebanese American University" and the "Lebanese International University".

Harriet Onyedibe is a Rising Clinical Pharmacist passionate about strengthening the healthcare system. She is actively engaged in the health sector with experience cutting across hospital, community pharmacy practice, and medical volunteering. She has a USAID certificate in Fostering Change in Health Services. She was a selected participant at the Health Technology Assessment HTA Short Course in University of Kumasi Ghana and is one of the 4 young ‘innovators’ who will be presenting a short paper on Health Technology Assessment HTA and Value Based Healthcare, at the #GHB2021.

She is currently a mentee at the Agathe Wehrli Mentoring Chair (AWMC) - a global mentoring platform for young pharmacists and scientists, under the Live Well Initiative LWI.

A 1994 graduate of OOU with MBChB. Had a diploma in family medicine from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology) from university of Lagos. Joined the Services of Lagos State in 1999 as a medical officer where he rose to become the Medical Director of Mainland Hospital(IDH) in 2015.

He has been involved in the management of Infectious Diseases such as Tuberculosis, Drugs Resistant tuberculosis, Lassa Fever, Monkey pox, Ebola virus Disease and Covid-19.

He led the team from the FMOH that trained and established the Drugs Resistant Tuberculosis wards in University of Jos Teaching Hospital as well as Federal Medical Centre Owerri.

He is also involved in the training of health workers nationally in the Programmatic management of Tuberculosis.

He was involved in the formulation of the SOP on Drugs Resistant Tuberculosis for the FMOH in 2014.

He is the team Lead for the Covid -19 Case Management Team in Lagos State where he not only manages Cases of Covid -19, but was also responsible for the formulation of SOP, and Treatment Protocols, both for the State and Nationally.

He has more than twenty publications.

Moteehat, a Clinical Pharmacist, holds a Masters degree in Public Health and a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacy –FPCPharm.

A civil servant and community service enthusiast, Moheetat also finds great reward in writing. She has been a columnist spanning two decades and she is passionate about women and girls' issues.

This passion she brings to bear in her enrolment at the Women in Hepatitis Africa WIHA, where she is determined to contribute her quota in ensuring that PMTCT in Hepatitis becomes a reality (prevention of mother to child transmission)

Dr. Babatunde Oghenobruche Obrimah is the Chief Operating Officer of Fintech Association of Nigeria. He is a fintech enthusiast and a multi-skilled individual with working experience of over thirty years spanning the banking sector, non-bank financial services sector, financial consulting services, project management and public sector.

His Professional career commenced at First Bank Nigeria Plc and worked in various banks during his banking career. Positions held during his banking career included: Group Head; Consumer banking, Agriculture/SMEs, Infrastructures, Food/Beverages, and Investment Banking, Regional Director Commercial Banking South-south and South-east. He served as an alternate Board member on the board of ValuCard Limited (now Unified Payments Plc) from 2004-2005. He was Managing Director/CEO of ELBI Integrated Resources Limited, a consulting form that provided advisory and project management services to Banks on Agricultural Financing and to real estate developers. His public sector experience was with NIRSAL Plc - a fully owned subsidiary of the Central Bank of Nigeria focused on de-risking and facilitating funding to agricultural value chains.

Sylvester Adeyemi is a Digital Innovator, Data Specialist and Pharmacist with more than eight years of professional and volunteering work experience principally in the areas of pharmacy practice, public health and development. A past president of the IPSF (International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation), Sylvester is an experienced Peer Leader and a Senior Mentoring Liason Officer at the LiveWell Initiative LWI AWMC Agathe Wehrli Mentoring Chair, where he has ‘paired’ several mentees with international and local mentors, and has himself been ‘paired’.

He is skilled in the use of data analytics tools - such as Google Forms, Survey CTO, Kobo toolbox, ODK, Redcap, tola, SPSS, Stata, R, NVIVO, MAXQDA, Microsoft Excel and PowerBI - in conducting Monitoring & Evaluation M&E; and has a history of successfully coordinating and co-leading public health programmes, evaluation and capacity building activities funded and supported by USAID, Mercy Corps, DFID, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Devtech, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Search for Common Ground, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF), Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria - Young Pharmacists’ Group, Young Pharmacists’ Group Africa and Health Technology Assessment International.

He holds an advanced degree in Global Health Procurement and Supply Chain Management from Kent State University and has managed drug supply chain and delivered pharmaceutical care for Global Fund key diseases areas; HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at hospital and community pharmacy levels. He is highly skilled in research with proven ability in facilitating evidence generation, synthesis and knowledge translation activities. His articles have been published in newsletters and peer reviewed journals. He currently consults for Chemonics International as Data Manager for the USAID/Nigeria Strategic HIV/AIDS Response programme.

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Ivonne Fuller Cameron, as Associate Professor at Howard University USA, is the President & CEO of ISE International Group, an Innovative Solutions company in the Healthcare and Business Space.

She is also President of Think Outside The Box LLC, providing strategic global health, business development and consulting services domestically and internationally.

She is the Global Ambassador of Women in Hepatitis Africa WIHA, and a very active Technical Advisory Board Member of the LiveWell Initiative LWI. She recently came on board GIANT Nigeria, as a Practicum Preceptor.

Ivonne is a dedicated and caring venture philanthropist and a very selfless ally.

She has also served as the President and CEO Hepatitis Foundation International HFI.

Ulimma, a graduate of Pharmacy from the University of Lagos and a Woman in Hepatitis Africa WIHA champion, is a multifaceted pharmacist with over three years of experience in the public health sector. She began her career in public health as an Intern at the LiveWell Initiative LWI where she obtained the Johnson & Johnson scholarship, bagging a diploma in public health from Lagos Business School in partnership with AMREF Africa. Currently, she is a Senior Public Health Pharmacist at the Livewell initiative LWI, a not-for-profit health promotion and empowerment public health organization.

Her success in this field is not only attributed to her expertise but also her peculiar leadership skill. This has earned her several awards, one of which is the committee coordinator of the year, awarded by the young pharmacist group (YPG) Lagos, for her service as the public health coordinator 2020. During her service with YPG, she organized awareness campaigns, vaccine outreaches, and blood drives, aiming to bridge the gap in public health created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her passion for ensuring access to health interventions recently gained her a scholarship at the school of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University/ Department of Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin, for a course in Health Technology Assessment.

She is commonly called "jack of all trades" because of her experiences in community, clinical, and most recently industrial pharmacy, where she established the pharmacovigilance department for Annie Pharma Limited and currently works as the head of the unit. She is a member of several organizations, including but not limited to the African Forum for Primary Health Care, a forum advocating for primary health care within universal health coverage and Agathe Wehril Mentoring Chair, an arm of Livewell initiative.

Although She has recently developed an interest in data science and its role in healthcare, furthering her studies in public health to expand her understanding and strengthen her public impact is of priority to her.

Suzanne, a philanthropist and career clinical pharmacist, is a Field Director at the biogenetics conglomerate, AbbVie. Zanne as she is popularly known, has a brilliant career which has spanned through reputable multinationals including Astra Zeneca, Shire, Pfizer, and now Abbvie.

She is very actively involved in phil;antropic work and has represented the LiveWell Initiative at the IAPO Global Congress. Suzanne has a special liking for children, and recenty invested in a child-philanthropy project.

She is the USA Representative of the LiveWell Initiative LWI, an organisation which she joined in Atlanta USA, and has been a selfless and dedicated volunteer for well over a decade. Along with Ivonne Cameron and Bisi Bright, she delivered lectures at the USAID-partnered Global Health Mini-University in Washington DC, under the auspices of George Washington University.

Soft spoken Abigail is a caring and empathetic Clinical Instructor, Nurse Tutor and Public Health Nurse, with several years work experience in government clinics, and the private sector.

A double-qualified and University degree holding Nurse, she also holds a Postgraduate Qualification as an Anaesthetic Nurse and she serves as a Clinical Instructor at the LWI and Women in Hepatitis Africa WIHA where she has impacted several lives and has assisted in preventing mother to child transmission of viral hepatitis.

She has led several home healthcare visits and has actively participated as a frontline officer in many Community Health Outreaches. She currently serves as Senior Matron and Telehealth Coordinator at the LWI.

Jane Ike-Okoli is currently the Head, Specialised Sectors in Stanbic IBTC, one of the sectors she is responsible for is Healthcare. She started her career in the Healthcare sector where she was in charge of Quality Management and achieved commendable milestones including the successful audit and ISO re-certification establishing the organisation’s status as the first internationally-certified Healthcare provider in Nigeria. She has held several positions in Stanbic IBTC across Corporate & Investment Banking, Business and Commercial Clients and Consumer & High Net Worth clients.

Jane has over 15 years of experience in both the Healthcare and Banking sectors. She has a BSc in Industrial Chemistry and currently pursuing her MBA in International Business from the University of Cumbria, United Kingdom. Jane is a member of the Chartered Quality Institute, UK, a certified Retail Banker from RBA International UK and a Salesforce Ranger. She is a dynamic, high-powered and results-driven senior banker with demonstrated ability to proficiently leverage internal strengths and resources - people, technology, products/services, and competitive market positions - to achieve organisational success. Jane has also earned recognition as a forward thinker, an innovator with superb communication skills.

Dr Motolani Oyerinde is Medical Doctor and Senior Family Health Officer at LiveWell Initiative LWI.

Dr Tolani as she is popularly called joined the organization 6 years ago as a Volunteer and Young Doctor under the organisation’s Volunteer Membership scheme, during which time she participated in several Health Outreaches, Health Fairs and Corporate Health Programmes. She is an Award-winning Young Doctor.

Dr Tolani has worked assiduously in the areas of Training, Peer Leadership, and Corporate Health. In particular, she led Health Missions into the Corporate Health Space, and she co-facilitated as Faculty Trainer in Hepatitis, at a continental Africa Regional Training Programme in Hepatitis which took place at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac Town Lagos State 4 years ago, attended by delegates from at least 15 African Countries.

She is a brilliant Medical Practitioner who remains focused, dedicated to duty, and innovative.  

Since the advent of COVID-19, Dr Tolani despite being a Nursing Mother, rose promptly to the challenges posed by the pandemic – having acquired prior skills in Mental Health, and she has been a Team Lead in our TELEHEALTH services, providing succor as a Non-COVID Response to the teeming population out there.Dr Tolani is an astute professional, empathetic and impactful and adding great value in the Hepatitis Space, albeit as a non-stipended Volunteer.

Tony Osae-Brown, Bureau Chief Bloomberg Nigeria, is a seasoned Journalist, writer, and financial analyst. He is an award-winning financial journalist with over a decade experience in journalism and in the financial sector. He has worked with leading media organizations like BusinessDay (Nigeria) Mergermarket (FT GROUP) and BBC (Contributing Analyst).

In the financial sector, he worked in the media department of Bank PHB(now Keystone Bank) before joining United Bank for Africa UBA where he headed the Lenders’ Writers’ Bureau. While at UBA, he ensured that the company’s press releases, features, product information, web content, internal/external publications, internal/investor communication and speeches were top-notch.

TSu Wang, MD, MPH is the current President of the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), a patient-led organization whose mission is to harness the power of people living with viral hepatitis to achieve its elimination. She practices internal medicine and is the Medical Director of Viral Hepatitis Programs & the Center for Asian Health at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, USA. Dr Wang has designed primary care-based hepatitis B and C care programs, initiatives for pregnant women with hepatitis B, and is involved with community outreach and community-based participatory research. She has served as primary investigator for a number of viral hepatitis screening and linkage-to-care grants sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other funders and is involved with US National Institute of Health funded programs in minority and Asian health.

Dr Wang received her medical degree from the University of Miami and her Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She completed a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric residency at Georgetown University Hospital and served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for the CDC at the US Food and Drug Administration She is living with hepatitis B, a mother to four children, and ending HBV mother-to-child transmission has been both a personal and professional foc

My name is Mawugbe (Mawu for short as I like to be called). My journey as a Pharmacist has seen me go through all the different paths from working my first job in a university teaching hospital, to volunteering at HIV clinics in Africa to working in community pharmacy and then hospital pharmacy and specialising in mental health, to finally arriving at my destination in primary care as Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist in care homes and now medicines optimisation pharmacist at LLR.

I am country representative for LiveWell Initiative LWI, a home-grown Nigerian non-profit organisation, in the UK. Funfact: I speak 3 languages and love to play the guitar and crochet which I taught myself last year during the first lockdown . My moto: There is always a reason to be happy!!

Bisi Bright, is an international award winning Serial Social Entrepreneur, Health Systems Researcher, Adjunct Lecturer, Consultant Clinical Pharmacist, and Public Health Manager. She is 1st Vice Chairman and CEO of LiveWell Initiative LWI, a self-sustaining nonprofit healthcare social enterprise, which has impacted over 2million Nigerians and thousands of Ghanaians with health literacy, improved overall health, and wellness.

  Bisi serves as an Internship Preceptor for MPH and DrPH at the prestigious Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in Boston USA and is a visiting Doctoral Research ‘Opponent’ Faculty at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

  Bisi sat on the Faculty of the Economist Conferences’ Healthcare in Africa; and is a two-time International Award winner of the IATDM/CT (International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology).

  Bisi Bright is also a Faculty Member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Graduate Management Trainee Programme NSE GMT, and Lead Trainer in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Nigeria; She is also a Mentor for WIMBIZ (Women in Business and Management) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Training Programme TEEP respectively. At the Global Level, she served as FIP PI Exco for Africa and the MiddleEast from 2008-2012, and Today, she is Board Member of IAPO (International Alliance of Patients’ Organisations) and a listed member of the British Charity Trust.

  As a fallout of COVID-19 she initiated and designed Study Protocols for COVIID-19 Response in Africa, which, along with members of her clinical research team, have successfully published 4 Peer Reviewed Open Access Scientific Journal Publications on COVID-19. She is the Country Representative of GIANT Nigeria, a Healthcare Organisation related to Vaccines Hesitancy.

  In 2017 she was recognised by the Economist Intelligence Unit EIU, as Global Changemaker Hepatitis C, and in the same year 2017, she won the Presidential Commendation for work on Hepatitis, awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Mfonobong is a young practicing pharmacist with experience in the health sector spanning five (5) years. With a penchant for health financing, policy and management, she was nominated under the auspices of LWI as a delegate at Nigeria's first Country Advocacy Meeting CAM on Universal Health Coverage UHC in 2019 as a Young People’s representative, and recently at the Short Course in Health Technology Assessment HTA hosted by Accelerating Capacity-building in Health Systems Research and Management in Africa project / German – West Africa Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Preparedness G-WAC at the University of Kumasi, Ghana.

Mfonobong has certificates in Health Systems Strengthening from UNICEF and Health Financing for UHC from World Health Organization WHO. She currently serves as the Senior Mentoring Laision Officer of LWI Agathe Wehrli Mentoring Chair and a participant in the FIP YPG Leadership Development Programme.

Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan has been working in the field of Sustainability and Communications for over 17 years. She serves as the internal leader and “go to” expert for sustainability in Access Bank and the financial sector, monitoring emerging trends, programs and issues; communicating and educating others on sustainability. She mentors Sustainability champions in other African financial institutions and provides them with relevant support required to implement the necessary positive change in their institutions.

She joined Access Bank in 2008 to establish the Sustainability function and has since led the Bank’s efforts in its Sustainability performance. In 2011, she initiated the Nigeria Sustainable Finance Week to create awareness and education on Sustainability and the need for the financial sector in Nigeria to develop a set of principles that will guide their sustainability performance. This was implemented in collaboration with UNEPFI and the DFIs, leading to the development of the Nigeria Sustainable Banking Principles. Omobolanle has since been actively involved in ensuring implementation both within Access Bank and other financial institutions. She leads the interface with stakeholders (domestic and international), on the Bank's sustainability agenda and also responds to questions or statements of position on Sustainability related matters.

Omolola is a chartered accountant with over 17 years of banking experience. Currently the Head of Sustainability, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC and a Non-Executive Director, Stanbic IBTC Trustees, she joined the financial organisation in September 2009 as the Head of Credit MIS and has worked in several roles since then.

Over the course of her career, Omolola has acquired skills and competencies in several areas such Enterprise Risk Management, Capital Management, Credit Portfolio Management, Sustainability, Financial Controls, Financial and Regulatory Reporting, Budgeting and Management Information Systems.

  Omolola attended the University of Ibadan where she obtained a Bachelor of Science Honors (BSc.) in Agricultural Economics. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She has attended numerous trainings both local and international in her areas of competency. She is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

Justin is the Co-founder of VXPASS and its President, a digital vaccination verification and administration platform built on the Bitcoin SV blockchain.  He is, and has been, a global entrepreneur focusing on technology, management, health doctrine and strategy. 

Justin founded a product design company while still in college (Savannah College of Art and Design) called Survival Solutions. He and his team won the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Gold Award for their 'survival pod' and received funding to build an international crisis management group that built products and constructed doctrine to mitigate loss of life and social structure for mass casualty global disasters. He worked with the USAID, the UN, and FEMA in that role. His passions have always been solving problems and global affairs.

Justin also built and ran two Porsche Design franchise stores in the Chicago area with a successful exit. Since then, Justin has been involved with creating strategy for marketing and team building for numerous corporate clients and has overseen both design and internal rebranding.  Justin and Zack Weiner Co-Founded Nomadic Creative together in 2017, a global creative asset company.

  He is a competition licensed Race Car Driver, world traveler and artist.