Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends,
From 22 to 26 October, Dakar, Senegal, will be the capital of health and the environment, bringing together numerous professionals, youth, women, policymakers, and expert representatives from public, private, and community organizations in a transdisciplinary and multisectoral approach.
On the occasion of the 7th edition of the Galien Africa Forum, dedicated to Climate and Health, a joint scientific day will be held on Friday, October 25 to include participants in the international conference “OSH by All Dakar 2024”. Focused on the Health-Environment-Social nexus, it will allow for the convergence of a diverse array of African and global actors.
The following day, Saturday, October 26, will be dedicated to the 9 themes of the new International Working Groups of the One Sustainable Health (OSH) Forum to agree on operational priorities in response to our health, environmental, and social challenges.
OSH by All Dakar 2024 is organized by Galien Africa and the One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, under the aegis of the Institut Pasteur, in partnership with ENDA Santé.
The support of the French Development Agency (AFD), Foundation S, and several other foundations provides us with the necessary means for the successful organization of this international conference.
We would be very happy to count you among us, either in person or online.
We invite you to join us to collaboratively adapt our operational actions in a borderless and solidarity-based approach to improve our health, our shared environmental, and overcome social challenges.
Sincerely,
President
Galien Africa
President
One Sustainable Health for All Foundation
Organization
Galien Africa, mainly organizes annually the Galien Forum Africa and Prix Galien Africa. Since the first edition in 2018, the Galien Forum Africa has been working to strengthen research and innovation, as well as sustainable development through experience sharing in the face of major public health issues. The Galien Forum Africa provides a platform for high-level scientific dicussions on issues of common interest, and on our continent’s health and environmental priorities. Through a Youth Forum, a Women’s Forum and a Scientific Forum, it is an opportunity to share lessons learned, discuss challenges and prospects.
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The Galien Forum Africa brings together students (selected from among the best on the continent) and innovators, investors, doctors, researchers and academics, socio-anthropologists, women leaders, community representatives, patient associations, civil society, winners of prestigious prizes including the Nobel Prize, and scientific experts. Political leaders and the private sector also take part in this event, which offers recommendations to stakeholders and decision-makers.
The Galien Forum Africa has positioned itself as the main event in Africa for health and environmental issues.
The meeting is also the exceptional occasion for the Prix Galien Afrique, which rewards excellence and innovation. They are awarded for products, services and initiatives that are highly convincing or promising in the field of innovative discoveries and therapies for the benefit of humanity, in four categories:
– Best pharmaceutical product,
– Best traditherapy product,
– Best biotechnology product,
– Best medical technology or digital solution.
The 7th Galien Forum Africa and the 4th Prix Galien Africa will be held in Dakar (Senegal) from 22 to 25 October 2024. This year, the main theme of the Forum is “Health and community actions under climate and environmental crisis in Africa”.
Founded in 1988, ENDA Santé is a senegalese non-governmental organization with a regional scope in West and Central Africa. The organization works in the health sector to bring about balances, qualitative social change. Alongside communities, its participatory approach integrates a multi-dimensional, multi-sectoral partnership.
ENDA Santé’s mission is to Improve access to quality health information and services for the most vulnerable African populations, and build the capacity of public health actors through a community health approach
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The organization’s areas of expertise include:
- Climate Change
- Community Health
- Maternal and Child Health
- HIV, Malaria and TB
- Medicinal Plants and traditional medicine
- Communicable and non communicable diseases
- Gender and Human rights
- Strengthening public health and community policies and structures
- Equal recognition of all healthcare workers
- Research, capitalization and dissemination of scientific information and local health knowledge
The One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, under the umbrella of the Institut Pasteur, was created on September 1, 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its objectives are to increase dialogue and innovative projects between public and private partners in favor of a holistic approach to health. This within the framework of a collaborative and inclusive action, without borders, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030).
The Sustainable Health for All Foundation is currently developing two complementary activities:
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- The One Sustainable Health (OSH) Forum, launched in 2021, to promote a “One Health / Planetary Health” transdisciplinary approach. The OSH Forum organizes conferences and leads thematic International Working Groups which aim to facilitate the operational implementation of projects integrating human, animal and environmental health.
- The Coalition One Europe for Global Health (OEGH), launched in 2022 during the French Presidency of the European Union, to promote the “One Health” approach in the international strategy of the European Union.
Program
REPLAYS
Role of Multisectorality in the Response to Climate and Environmental Changes in Africa
Opening Ceremony
- Pr. Awa Marie COLL-SECK, President, Forum Galien Afrique, Senegal
- Bruno COHEN, President, Foundation Galien, USA
- Benoît MIRIBEL, President, One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, France
- Jean KASEYA, Director General, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Ethiopia
Panel 1: Strategic Thinking in Operationalizing One Health in a Sustainable Way
The One Health approach touches on most, if not all, the Sustainable Development Goals. The One Sustainable Health for All Declaration (December 2023) made a series of recommendations that require monitoring of progress and the identification of those institutions or structures that would be key to their implementation. This session will define those structures and the role that the participants (One Sustainable Health by All) have in promoting change.
Moderators
- Mamadou SONKO, Director, Institut des Sciences de l’environnement/Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal
- Nguissali TURPIN, Executive Director, ENDA-Santé, Senegal
Rapporteur
- Davide ZIVERI, Environmental Health Specialist, Handicap International, Belgium
Panelists
- Adjaratou Diakhou NDIAYE, Permanent Secretary, Haut Conseil national Sécurité sanitaire “One Health”, Senegal
- Agnès SOUCAT, Director of Health and Social Protection, Agence Française de Développement, France
- Rafi SIDDIQUE, Friendship Bangladesh (remote)
- Serge NZIETCHUENG, One Health Specialist, FAO, Kenya
- Nana Ruth Friba ARTHUR, Director, Disease Epidemics Unit, National Disaster Management Organisation, Ghana
- Sara Danièle DIENG, AFROHUN Country Manager, Senegal
Panel 2: Social and Environmental Determinants in Addressing One Health
Social and environmental determinants of health are factors that influence an individual's health and well-being beyond biological and genetic factors. These determinants can significantly impact health outcomes and contribute to health disparities among different populations. Economic stability, level of education and literacy, social and community support and engagement, access to quality healthcare, affordable housing, transportation, and safety are some of the key social elements. Meanwhile, water, air and soil quality, land use practices, noise, extreme climate events, exposure to toxins and residues, biodiversity, and urban/periurban/rural landscapes represent environmental elements. The social and environmental determinants often interact and compound each other’s effects on health, sometimes resulting in cumulative impacts and disparities among different populations and communities. This session will discuss the interaction and compounding effects and how to mitigate threats to health and the opportunities and views on a Pandemic Treaty.
Moderators
- Papa Serigne SECK, President, PREZODE, Senegal
Rapporteur
- Hélène DELISLE, Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal, Canada
Panelists
- Yawande ALIMI, Lead One Health, Africa CDC, Ethiopia
- Davide ZIVERI, Environmental Health Specialist, Handicap International, Belgium
- Agnès BUZYN, Former Minister of Health, France
- Rachel FREEMAN, Associate Professor, Psychology and Social Work, University of Namibia, Namibia
- Daouda DIOUF, Head of Climate Action and Health Resilience, Foundation S, France
- Franck BERTHE, Senior Health Specialist, One Health Lead, World Bank, USA
Prix Galien Africa 2024 Award Ceremony (by invitation only)
Welcome Cocktail
Panel 3: OSH Forum International Working Groups
This session is designed to provide an overview of the OSH Forum’s nine International Working Groups, a description of the issues, and an update of the work undertaken. Attendees will be invited to participate in the associated afternoon workshops where exchanges with the IWG co-Chairs and attendees take place. The workshops bring cross-cutting issues to the table and where co-design processes on such issues key to the IWGs ‘title’ and climate change and health, education and training, antimicrobial resistance, infectious and non-communicable diseases, communication and advocacy, and the Pandemic Treaty using OSH approaches can take place.
- Overview of the International Working Groups (15 minutes)
- Benjamin ROCHE, Coordinator - International Working Groups, IRD, France
- Juan LUBROTH, Coordinator - Scientific Council One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, Italy
- IWG1 Environmental Health and sustainability (10 minutes)
- Ricardo MORATELLI, Scientist Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
- IWG2 Sustainable Food Systems (10 minutes)
- IWG3 One Health 4 Cities (10 minutes)
- Yves TERRAN, Associate Researcher, University of Montreal, Canada
- Yves TERRAN, Associate Researcher, University of Montreal, Canada
- IWG4 Equitable Health Services (10 minutes)
- Hélène DELISLE, Professor emeritus, Université de Montreal, Canada
- IWG5 Financing for One Sustainable Health (10 minutes)
- Jacky Mathonnat, Professor emeritus, University Clermont Auvergne, France
- IWG6 Governance and Policy (10 minutes)
- Katherine URBAEZ, Executive Director, Health Diplomacy Alliance, Switzerland
- IWG7 Education and communication (10 minutes)
- Julie GARNIER, Director, Odyssey Conservation Trust, UK
- IWG8 One Health Next Generation (10 minutes)
- Chiara GOTTARELLI, Medical Resident, Centre Lèon Bérard, France
- IWG9 One Health in Humanitarian Settings (10 minutes)
- Davide ZIVERI, Environmental Health Specialist, Humanity & Inclusion, Belgium
Panel 4: Public-Private Partnerships – Vision and Roles in Operationalising One Sustainable Health by All and for All
The Sustainable Development Goal 17 is about partnerships. Ensuring a One Health approach in the realm of public-private partnerships (PPPs) is essential in designing frameworks for addressing complex health challenges that cross human, animal, and environmental health domains. The collaboration across various sectors to achieve comprehensive health outcomes and alignment of public health priorities with private sector capabilities and needs. The session will focus on the acknowledgement of the different roles the sectors have and the importance of finding common ground to advance together to achieve sustainable health for and by all by identifying areas of convergence and joint investment.
Moderators
- Hope UWEJA, Vice President and Chief Engagement Officer, Africa Economic Forum, Nigeria
- Fatou BADIANE, One Health Investments, FAO, Senegal
Raporteur
- Amadou SALL, Director General, Institut Pasteur, FAO, Senegal
Panelists
- Frédéric OUDEA, Chairman of the Board of Directors – SANOFI; Foundation S, France
- Amadasun BRAMWELL, Food System, Africa Economic Forum, Nigeria
- Anne-Claire AMPROU, Ambassador, Global Health, France
Workshop 1: One Health and the Pandemic Treaty
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently drafting an international, legally binding instrument for “pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response”. This treaty, often referred to as the Pandemic Accord, aims to define rules and norms for preventing and responding to future health emergencies worldwide. The revised draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement explicitly commits to promoting a One Health approach for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. Though the hope is that this holistic perspective helps us better prepare for future health crises, concerns have been raised that funding schemes do not address current health threats and disease burdens, let alone equity to health access across the globe. This workshop will give an opportunity to hear different perspectives, highlighting areas of concern and examples of responses – especially for low- and middle-income countries and disenfranchised communities.
Lead
- John AMUASI, Co-Chair, One Health Lancet Commission, Ghana
Rapporteur
- Franck Berthe, Senior Livestock Specialist, World Bank, Senegal
Panelists
- Adjaratou Diakhou NDIAYE, Permanent Secretary, High Council for National Health Security «One Health», Senegal
- Anne-Claire AMPROU, Ambassador, Global Health, France
- Aschalew Abayneh WORKINEH, EPPR Project Manager, WHO, Ethiopia
- Ricardo MORATELLI, Scientist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
- Papa Serigne SECK, President, PREZODE International Initiative, Senegal
- Germán VELASQUEZ, South Centre, Switzerland
- Precious MATSOSO, Co-Chair, Intergovernmental Negotiating Body/Pandemic Treaty, Republic of South Africa
Workshop 2: Education and Training – How to make an impact on the ground
One Health education and cross-sectoral training and communication are crucial for fostering a collaborative and integrated approach to health issues that intersect human, animal, and environmental health. Key elements for One Health education involve the establishment of interdisciplinary curricula with efforts at integrated learning, case studies, and systems thinking in fieldwork and internships, the promotion of collaborative projects across disciplines, and community engagement. This session will highlight the views of the panelists in devolving intersectoral education, awareness raising, and communication with some successful interventions.
Lead
- Ibrahima SECK, Secretary General Galien Africa, Senegal
Panelists
- Max CLARON, Health and Environment Program Manager, Friendship, France/Bangladesh
Panellists
- Yann DUTERTRE, Head, Bioforce Africa, Senegal
- William BAZEYO, Chief Executive Officer, AFROHUN, Uganda
- Bart JANSSEN, Director, Learning and Innovation, WHO Academy, France
- Rachel FREEMAN, Assoc Professor, Psychology and Social Work, University of Namibia, Namibia
- Geraldine COLIN, Solthis Country Director, Senegal
- Serge NZIETCHUENG, One Health Specialist, FAO, Kenya
Workshop 3: Engaging all stakeholders for sustainable antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mitigation and antimicrobial use (AMU) across One Health sectors
Effective antimicrobials, particularly antibiotics, are cornerstones of public health systems and food production, but alarming rates of rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have been documented globally, with a significantly high burden in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). In sub-Saharan Africa, the latest estimates indicate that 6.63 million human deaths will be attributable to AMR from 2025 to 2050 (ref: Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance). Also, AMR threatens economies and development nationally and globally.
Mitigation of AMR and prudent antimicrobial use (AMU) is urgently needed to tackle this challenge that is affecting health, food security, and economies, and it is necessary to adopt a One Health approach across human, animal, and environmental sectors. This workshop will highlight the current gaps in AMR mitigation in Africa, introduce interventions, and invite discussion on sustainable solutions to this challenge with participants from government, professionals working with AMR and AMU, the community, donor organizations, NGOs, and intergovernmental organizations.
Lead
- Theresa Cecilia Amèlie Høgenhaug, International Centre for Antimicrobial Solutions, Denmark
Co-leads
- Alpha DIALLO, FAO, Senegal
- Rodolphe MADER, ICARS
Rapporteur :
- Yves TERRAT, Montreal University, Canada
Workshop 4: Establishment of a “One Sustainable Health Institute – Africa”
Today, as yesterday, the crises that disrupt our societies are multifaceted. Their dynamics are vast, spanning multiple dimensions such as health, biodiversity, inequality, nutrition, and climate change, to name but a few. Preventing and managing this broad spectrum of crises requires a comprehensive and integrated approach. Involving all relevant actors, from authorities to members of civil society, from researchers to the private sector, is a civilizational imperative. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the unifying concept of “One Health”, it remains crucial that taking an integrative approach to addressing emerging and existing threats or disease burdens remains paramount.
To address the numerous causes of these multifaceted crises, a more encompassing concept has emerged: “One Sustainable Health for All”. It combines the essential involvement of civil society and the necessary interconnection between all public and private actors to respond to our health, environmental, and social challenges in a sustainable and cross-cutting way. However, tackling all this requires unprecedented coordination due to a highly fragmented landscape, divided between different areas of health (human, animal, environmental), between the actors involved (civil society, researchers, private sector, authorities), and even between political and research institutions. A One Sustainable Health Institute for Africa would represent a network of likeminded institutions dedicated to collaborating, sharing knowledge, and joining in the effort for a better future.
Lead
- Awa Marie COLL SECK, President of Galien Africa, Senegal
- Francine NTOUMI, President, Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, RD Congo (online)
Rapporteur
- Amadou SALL, Director General, Institut Pasteur, FAO, Senegal
Panelists
- Agnes SOUCAT, Director of Health and Social Protection, Agence Française de Développement, France
- Rianatou BADA ALAMBEDJI, Inter-State School of Veterinary Science and Medicine, Senegal
- Mohamed Khaled CHOULLI, Professor, Faculty of Medicine et de Pharmacy of Marrakech, Morocco
- Astou CAMARA, Director of the Macroeconomic Analysis Office, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricole, Senegal
Recommendation – Steps and Leaps Forward
- Pr. Ibrahima SECK, Secretary General Galien Africa, Senegal
- Dr. Juan LUBROTH, Coordinator - Scientific Council One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, Italy
- Benoît MIRIBEL, President One Sustainable Health for All Foundation, France
- Dr. Agnès SOUCAT, Director of Health and Social Protection, Agence Française de Développement, France
- Pr. Awa Marie COLL-SECK, President of Galien Africa, Senegal
Closing Session – Presentation of Recommendations and Preparation for Lyon 2025
The Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee reviews the proposed programme for Dakar and assists in identifying panellists that represent different segments of society, private and public sector representatives, academics and field workers, discipline specialists from around the word, but more notably from Africa.
Juan Lubroth and Ibrahima Seck are the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee.
John AMUASI
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR at KNUST)
GHANA
Zandra ANDRE
Senior Infectious Disease Technical Advisor
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health
U.S.A.
Melchior Athanase Joël AISSI
Director General
West African Health Organization
BURKINA FASO
Libasse BA
Chairman
National Climate Change Committee of Senegal (COMNACC)
SENEGAL
Mohammed Khaled CHOULLI
Yenda-Africa
MOROCCO
Daouda DIOUF
Head of Climate Action and Health Resilience
Foundation S
FRANCE
Maria DE LOURDES OLIVEIRA
Vice-President of Research and Biological Collections
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)
BRAZIL
Rafi Abul Hasnath SIDDI
Deputy Director
Friendship
BANGLADESH
Juan LUBROTH
Scientific Council Coordinator
Fondation Une Santé Durable pour Tous.
FRANCE
Kitembo LAMBERT
Ministry of Health and Population
REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Huyam SALIH
African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
KENYA
Ibrahima SECK
Galien Africa
SENEGAL
Agnès SOUCAT
French Agency for Development (AFD)
FRANCE
Baba SOUMARE
Food and Agriculture Organization.
ITALY
Sokhna THIAM
Associate Research Scientist, Leader Environment Climate Health Unit
African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
SENEGAL
Nguissali TURPIN
ENDA Santé
SENEGAL
International Working Group themes
During the Dakar conference, the different IWGs will present what have been the recommendations made during the first phase (2021-2023) and what are their current strategies and their objectives for this new phase (2024-2026). This conference will also be the opportunity to identify synergies that could be developed between the IWGs to apply a One Sustainable Health approach on the field through a co-design approach.
IWG1 : Environmental health and sustainability
IWG2 : Sustainable food systems
IWG3 : One Health&Urban settings
IWG4 : Equitable health services
IWG5 : Financing for One Sustainable Health
IWG6 : Governance and Policy
IWG7 : Education and Communication
IWG8 : One Health Next Generation
IWG9 : One Health in Humanitarian Settings
Strategic partners
Practical information

Contact Fondation Une Santé Durable pour Tous :

Contact Galien Africa :

Event address :
- King Fahd Palace, Rte des Almadies, B.P : 8181 Dakar, Sénégal.
- Musée des Civilisations: Autoroute prolongée x Plage de la Gare Dakar, Sénégal.

List of nearby hotels :
Hôtels
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Yaas Hotel Dakar Almadies +221 33 859 07 00 -
L'Adresse +221 33 827 17 17 -
Le Lodge des Almadies +221 33 869 03 45 -
Terrou-Bi +221 33 839 90 39 -
Radisson Blu Hotel +221 33 869 33 33 -
Azalaï Hôtel Dakar +221 33 923 23 00 -
Hôtel Fleur de Lys Point E +221 33 869 53 00 -
Hôtel Fleur de Lys Plateau +221 33 849 46 00 -
Pullman Dakar Teranga +221 33 889 22 00 -
Novotel Dakar +221 33 849 49 94 -
Ibis Dakar +221 33 829 59 59 -
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Registration
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