Innovation is reshaping healthcare and pharmacy practice, creating opportunities to improve patient outcomes, strengthen healthcare systems, and enhance operational efficiency across the medicines value chain. However, successful innovation requires more than new technologies; it depends on effective leadership, workforce readiness, regulatory support, and collaboration across the sector. As healthcare evolves towards 2050, the profession must…
Globally, the pharmacy profession is undergoing a significant transformation as healthcare systems increasingly embrace person-centred, preventative, and technology-enabled models of care. Pharmacists are no longer viewed solely as dispensers of medicines, but as integral members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams who contribute to improved access, continuity of care, and better patient outcomes. Advances in digital health,…
The Manufacturing/Wholesale sector session explores how scientific innovation, regulatory reform, and supply-chain transformation will shape South Africa’s pharmaceutical sector by 2050. It focuses on three key areas: novel medicines, including precision medicine, gene and cell therapies, mRNA vaccines, AI-driven drug discovery, and treatments for priority diseases; evolving regulatory pathways, addressing advanced therapies, accelerated registration, digital health, AI, and African…