Our first projects, the Regulatory Workshops and the flagship CLIC Course, already defined the key objectives of our Academy, teaching and training in medicines development and regulation. Since then, we have experienced a considerable growth of its professional network and reputation locally, but also internationally.

To our dedicated team who are the force behind Fundisa, both our Local & International Partners, Sponsors, Speakers, Delegates and Associates, we appreciate your Continued Dedication & Support!

Refresher Clinical Investigator Certification Course

The on-site Clinical Investigator Certification Course will focus on the National Department of Health (NDoH) Research Guidelines 2024, WMA Declaration of Helsinki and ICH E6 (R3) whose recent updates emphasize the need for core ethical knowledge, high-quality data, and proper study preparation and conduct at investigational sites, currently not regularly included in GCP courses. The course will be offered as a face-to-face event over a 2-day period, from 15 – 16 May 2025 at the Nitida Wine Farm, Cape Town.

Digital Health 2025

Following the success of our DHA-2024 Conference last year (see publication here) we are now planning our second Digital Health Africa Conference on 3-5 September 2025. This will be a hybrid multi-site event held simultaneously in Pretoria, Kampala and Berlin, including the option of virtual participation. The main theme will be maternal and child health. One of the main goals of our Conference is to act as "incubator" for novel ideas and to facilitate the establishment of long-term cross-disciplinary cooperative projects.

The international Conference "Digital Health Africa 2025: The Future of Healthcare on the Continent" (DHA-2025) will be hosted by the Charité Center for Global Health, Charité University Medicine Berlin (Germany), the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala (Uganda), Pharmacometrics Africa, Cape Town (South Africa), Fundisa African Academy for Medicines Development, Cape Town (South Africa), and The Innovation Hub, Pretoria (South Africa).

For more information and registration, click here.

Clinical Investigator Certificate Course: September 2024

The second on-site Clinical Investigator Certificate (CLIC) Course (CPD and GCP accredited) after the pandemic took place as face-to-face event on the 9 th to 13 th of September at the Nitida Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Cape Town. The live format continues to offer the delegates and presenters an excellent networking platform for exploring future collaboration.

Click here for an overview of the content covered in the course.

Information on our next CLIC course will be announced shortly, stay tuned!

Regulatory capability enhancement:

Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development is strongly involved in the medicines regulatory course "Dossier Assessment for Clinical Assessors Within African Regulatory Agencies". Interested scientists from organisations outside Medicines Regulatory Agencies are also invited to attend. Stakeholders of this programme are SAHPRA (South Africa), MCAZ (Zimbabwe) and Ghana FDA, together with Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development, Pharmacometrics Africa NPC, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the University of Witwatersrand.

The fourth iteration of this course has ended with a virtual graduation ceremony on the 20th of March 2025. We are proud of the enthusiastic group of successful participants who will make a difference in the medicines regulatory landscape of Africa.

Submissions of manuscripts or proposals of Research Topics are very welcome.

Frontiers in Pharmacology - Drugs Outcomes Research and Policies:

Prof Rosenkranz has been appointed as Specialty Chief Editor of the section Drugs Outcomes Research and Policies of the open-access journal Frontiers in Pharmacology. The topics addressed in this section are discussed in the Specialty Grand Challenge article "Drug outcomes research and policies - trends and challenges".

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Submissions of manuscripts or proposals of Research Topics are very welcome.

Education and Training in Pharmaceutical Medicine, Medicines
Development and Regulation for Scientists Worldwide:

Recognising the importance of education and training in medicines development and regulation and the various initiatives in this field worldwide, Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development participates in a Research Project with the journal "Frontiers in Pharmacology" on this topic.

Submissions of publication manuscripts are very welcome

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There is a critical skills gap on the African continent in medicines development and regulatory sciences. Aligned with this need, Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development has been established in 2014 with the mission to provide leadership and to promote teaching and capability enhancement in these disciplines in South Africa and other African countries.

Using the strong local and international professional networks of its Directors, this aim is accomplished by:

• Fostering and promoting teaching and training in medicines development and regulation and/or related sciences in South Africa and other African countries;
• Organising workshops, webinars and courses;
• Development of young scientists;
• Promoting communication and cooperation between teaching institutions, industry and regulatory agencies.

Fundisa African Academy of Medicines Development (FAAMD) is registered as a non-profit Company (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa (CIPC), NPC 2014/104973/08; PBO 930054211), and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.