Dr Anban Pillay is Deputy Director General for Health Regulation and Compliance at South Africa’s National Department of Health, where he has held senior roles for over 20 years. His work has shaped pharmaceutical policy, including medicine pricing, formularies, procurement and service delivery, as well as South Africa’s Universal Health Coverage (National Health Insurance) policy and legislation.

Dr Kim Smith is a digital health and health informatics leader passionate about using technology, health information, and data to improve patient outcomes and healthcare performance. As Senior Manager: Health Informatics at Mediclinic Southern Africa, she leads initiatives across digital health transformation, clinical coding, health information management and value-based care. She has contributed to the design and implementation of digital health solutions, clinical performancemeasurement programmes, and d

Professor Keymanthri Moodley is a specialist family physician, bioethicist, and Emeritus Professor at Stellenbosch University, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has led five NIH-funded research projects, has extensive clinical trial experience, and has spent more than 20 years training researchers in Good Clinical Practice and research ethics while serving on numerous ethics and data safety monitoring boards.

Mande Toubkin is a leading South African emergency, trauma and disaster management specialist with more than 30 years of clinical, academic and strategic healthcare experience. She is Netcare’s Group Manager for Emergency, Trauma, Disaster Management, Transplant, Corporate Social Investment and Human Milk Banking, leading national programmes in emergency care, trauma systems, disaster preparedness and compassionate healthcare.