DATE & VENUE

Date: 29th - 31st October, 2025. Venue: Sango Conference Center, Cresta Lodge, Harare

PROGRAMME & TRACKS

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Track 1: Zimbabwe and Africa’s Public Health Landscape – Heritage, Challenges, and Foundations
Session 1: Traditional medicine and healing practices in Africa
Session 2: Mainstreaming Traditional Knowledge systems in modern health care practice.                                                                                                                                    Session 3: Cultural Influences on Health Behavior and Outcomes
Track 2: Strengthening Health Systems Through Data and Evidence- Based Practices
Session 1: Strengthening Evidence-Based decision making in Public Health Session 2: Strengthening African-Led Health Research and data generation Session 3: Session 2: Digital Health, AI, and Telemedicine in Africa
Track 3: Sustainable Health Financing- “The new reality”
Session 1: Health financing: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations -Lessons from the World Bank & UNDP.                                                                            Session 2: Public-Private Partnerships in Health Sector Investment                  Session 3: Government, NGO, Private Sector and Community Collaborations for Health Development
Track 4: Infectious Diseases, NCDs, and Emerging Health Challenges            Session 1. Disease Surveillance in Zimbabwe and Africa: Lessons From Covid-19
Session 2: Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, Cancer – Innovations in Treatment & Prevention                                                                                                          Session 3: Integrating Traditional knowledge systems in Non- Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention
Track 5: Child and Maternal Health & Maternal Mental Health.                          Session 1: Addressing Maternal Health and Child Mortality Through Heritage-Informed Approaches
Session 2: Maternal Mental Health: Recognizing and Responding to the Crisis        Session 3. The Role of Men in Improving Maternal Health Outcomes
Track 6 Mental Health, Drug and Substance Abuse                                                                                                          Session 1: Reducing Stigma, WHO Quality Rights Training & Enhancing Access to Care
Session 1.1: The Role of People With Lived Experience of Mental Health, Drug & Substance Abuse Towards Improving Mental Healthcare in Zimbabwe and Africa                                                                                                  Session 2: Harm Reduction in Zimbabwe: Key Lessons from the National AIDS Council’s Global Fund Comparative & Learning Visit.
Session 3: Youth Mental Health and Culturally Rooted Resilience Strategies
Track 7: Environmental Health, Climate Change, and Public Health Resilience
Session 1: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) – Local Innovations and Policies                                                                                                                                            Session 2: One Health Concept, Oral Care and Public Health
Session 3: Solid Waste Management: Implication on Public Health (Cholera/Typhoid/Dysentery/Schistosomiasis) Prevention in Zimbabwe and Africa
Track 8: Indigenous Knowledge and Homegrown Innovations in Healthcare
Session 1: Strengthening Local Pharmaceutical and Herbal Medicine Industries    Session 2: Documentation, Intellectual Property, Ethics, and Regulation of Traditional Medicine
Track 8: Indigenous Knowledge and Homegrown Innovations in Healthcare
Session 1: Strengthening Local Pharmaceutical and Herbal Medicine Industries    Session 2: Documentation, Intellectual Property, Ethics, and Regulation of Traditional Medicine
Track 10: Heritage & Evidence Based: Integration of Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) in Public Health Programming.                                                            Session 1: Effective methods for collecting data in settings where heritage practices are central to the health experience.                                                                        Session 2: MEL strategies for assessing community-led health initiatives that incorporate cultural knowledge and local solutions
Session 3: How to scale MEL-informed heritage-based public health interventions for broader application across Africa.