Africa is home to 54 United Nation member states, each possessing a wealth of ethno-
cultural, physiographic, and economic diversity. While Africa is credited as having the …

The African Health Initiative (AHI) is the Doris Duke Foundation's (DDCF) response to the
need to improve the knowledge base on how to strengthen health systems. As this Initiative …

The Covid-19 pandemic brings back to the fore traditions of interconnected health
governance in Africa, both at regional and inter-regional levels. Using the early pandemic …

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fragilities of our global health systems, and the
contrasting health infrastructures between countries, like Nigeria, constrained by …

Although resilience has been central to building health systems, conceptual clarity and
consensus on its measurement are murky. Refocusing the discourse from merely disease …

West Africa was the focus of global attention during the Ebola virus disease outbreak, when
systemic health system weaknesses compounded a serious emergency and complicated …

Africa is at a critical time undergoing demographic, epidemiological, political and socio-
economic transitions and faced with repeated outbreaks of emerging and remerging …

Soon after the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV), was first identified in a cluster
of patients with pneumonia (Li et al., 2020), in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 31 December …

The African continent demonstrated decisive leadership throughout its response to the
COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging lessons learned from previous outbreaks and acting …

The African region is experiencing peculiar demographic, economic, social and
environmental challenges that place pressures on the health systems. While the need to …