Vizuri is Africa’s Medicine Manufacturing Accelerator
Significant investment by governments, donors and civil society over the past 30 years has delivered tremendous gains in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria – all underpinned by the secure availability of quality medicines.
However, with Africa’s population being one of the fastest growing in the world, projected local demand for medicines will inevitably increase. Today, Africa produces less than 5% of the medicines it currently needs.
Vizuri Health Dynamics is an African organisation created to foster a competitive African pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, focusing on crucially needed therapeutics and API manufacturing.
Vizuri’s vision is to be a sustainable partnership dedicated to building a resilient African pharmaceutical industry, servicing demand from patients across Africa and making meaningful contributions to the global market.
Vizuri’s mission is to ensure Africa’s supply and availability of quality, affordable medicines for patients across the continent by improving the capacity and scale of Africa’s pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Governance Structure
Vizuri is governed by a Council of Members who are supported by Council Committees, an Executive Team with a CEO, and an Independent Technical Advisory Panel.
Council of Members
Dr Mariatou Tala Jallow
Vizuri Health Dynamics: Council Chair
Tala is a globally recognised leader in pharmaceutical procurement and quality and is the Founder and Managing Director at TalaConsult. With over 30 years of experience in Pharmaceuticals, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management and Public Health, she has served on multiple global advisory committees related to pharmaceutical procurement and quality. Tala was a Senior Manager at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland.
She was the chief architect of the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism which she grew into a portfolio of over 60 countries and USD 1.2 billion annual spend on health products. She was the Chief Pharmacist of The Gambia’s Ministry of Health and Registrar of the Government of Gambia. Tala has held several international consultancy positions with organisations such as World Bank, WHO and others.
Dr Iain Barton
Vizuri Health Dynamics: Founder
Iain is the founder of Health 4 Development. He is a medical doctor with 10 years of clinical practice, and over 25 years in African healthcare supply chain management, and healthcare systems advisory – an expert in innovating, incubating, and scaling best practice functions in Global Health.
He was responsible for developing the Regional Distribution Centers to support the global scale-up of PEPFAR (The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Supply Chain Control Tower to supports the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism. Previously, Iain served as CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and Executive Vice President – Healthcare and Healthcare Strategy at Imperial Logistics – Africa’s largest pharma supply organisation.
His innovations include Unjani Clinics, Warehouse-in-a-Box, Clinic-in-a-Box and a mega-distributor model enhancing medicine access across African markets. Iain was a founding Board Member of South Africa’s Public Health Enhancement Fund and has served on the Advisory Boards of Merck for Mothers, People That Deliver, and ARC (Africa Resource Centre).
Ann-Marie Hosang-Archer
Vizuri Health Dynamics: Council Member
Ann-Marie is the Chair of the Board of Health 4 Development. She was the CEO of Eli-Lilly for SSA and now the founder and current CEO of Lignum Vitae Health, specialising in licensing, registration and route-to-market management for innovator and generic medicine and device manufacturers wishing to enter African markets. She is a driven leader with over 30 years of pharmaceutical leadership experience in multiple markets from Central America, Caribbean, Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Known for her strategic leadership, bottom-line focused results, she is a strong voice of compliance and integrity in the industry. Her demand generation expertise gained from multiple developing countries, enhances Vizuri in supporting public and private healthcare-focused partners to improve access and affordability to high quality medicines. Ann-Marie is passionate about people development and aims to contribute to economic growth through healthier more productive communities.
Partnership
Vizuri has partnered with Health 4 Development (H4D) to help execute its vision and mission as Vizuri’s main implementation partner. H4D is a strategic advisor operating across the full healthcare value chain, supporting small and medium sized, as well as large companies and financiers. Experienced subject matter experts assist clients to scale and improve efficiencies in six key areas: (1) Supply Chain; (2) Market Dynamics; (3) Demand Generation; (4) Innovative Finance; (5) Health Service Delivery and (6) Production Operations.
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