Evans Sagwa is a pharmaceutical management expert and public health leader with more than 20 years of experience in strengthening health systems and supply chains in low- and middle-income countries. Sagwa has specific expertise in pharmaceutical policy and regulation, product safety, and quality assurance systems. He currently leads the USAID-funded Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus program in Eastern and Southern Africa and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
As the urgency around the COVID-19 pandemic fades, three essential actions are needed to ensure vaccine manufacturing in Africa moves forward to help ready the continent for future pandemics.
