Uniting policymakers, scientists, and communities to accelerate investment in health research and innovation across Africa.
CHReaD brings together civil society, research institutions, academia, and the private sector to advocate for an enabling policy environment promoting research, innovation, and access to high-impact health technologies across Africa.
Founded in 2015 and hosted by AMREF Health Africa since 2020, we are the region's leading voice for health R&D investment and policy change.
Saving lives through health research, innovation, and development.
To catalyze action on health R&D through coordinated advocacy efforts to facilitate access to safe and efficacious health products technologies and innovations to communities in Africa
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Flash-talks, poster sessions, and grant networking for frontline researchers showcasing breakthrough work from across Africa. Where science meets funding opportunity.
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Live product demos, startup pitches, and deal rooms where African health innovation meets investment opportunity. The continent's premier health tech showcase.
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Bridging indigenous African healing knowledge with modern health systems, honoring traditional medicine as a cornerstone of African health innovation and identity.
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Live podcasts, media interviews, and storytelling, communicating science through culture and creative expression. Where science becomes a cultural conversation.
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CHReaD's Science Action Agenda is a collective declaration co-created with researchers, academia advocates, and policymakers of what Africa must do, fund, and build between 2026 and 2029.
Africa accounts for 24% of the global disease burden but less than 1% of global health R&D investment. The Science Action Agenda names the specific structural changes, funding, capacity, access, that will shift this within three years.
Coalition members can shape the agenda directly. Submit priorities, endorse existing ones, or join a working group ahead of the September 2026 launch.
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8–10 Sep · Nairobi, Kenya