FIND to share COVID-19 testing experience with the President of Tanzania and other global health experts at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

FIND to share COVID-19 testing experience with the President of Tanzania and other global health experts at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

FIND (www.FINDdx.org) Chief Access Officer will join a discussion with H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania and other distinguished panellists, calling on governments and decision makers to prioritize local manufacturing capacity as a key part of their pandemic preparedness and resilience planning; the session will take place at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), which is convening leading experts and decision makers this week to address pressing global health challenges.

FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, will share experiences from leadership of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator (https://www.ACT-a.org/) diagnostics pillar at a distinguished panel session during the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) (https://2022.WISH.org.qa/), taking place this week in Doha, Qatar. The session, titled Bridging the supply chain gap to deliver resilience, will take place 13:15–14:15 AST, in Ballroom 3 of Multaqa.

Dr Emma Hannay, FIND Chief Access Officer, will join a discussion with H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania; Jean-Paul Scheuer, Regional Vice President of Sanofi; and H.E. Ahmad Al-Sayed, Minister of State and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Free Zones Authority in Qatar.

Uneven distribution of supply has been one of the key barriers to