EVENTS 2025
PxP Africa 2025
Virtual Meeting August 13, 2025
From Research Participants to Patient Partners in Research: Centering African Patients Voices
PxP Africa will be hosted for 75 minutes, starting at 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time (UTC), 17:00 West Africa Time (UTC +1), 18:00 Central Africa Time (UTC +2), and 19:00 (UTC +3) East Africa Time.
PxP Africa is the first regional PxP meeting, led by Joab Wako and Kwanele Asante who are members of the 2025 steering committee for the global PxP conference taking place in September. PxP Africa will spotlight the critical role of patient partners—especially African patients—as active contributors in research, not just research participants. The session will challenge the traditional top-down model of research and explore how lived experience can inform, shape, and lead meaningful, inclusive studies.
By completing the registration form, you are registering your interest in joining the meeting but your space is not guaranteed until you receive a confirmation email from PxP. Please note that the meeting is open to people from across the globe, but priority will be given to attendees based in Africa. Successful registrants will receive the Zoom link by email ahead of the meeting.
More speakers will be announced soon.
Kwanele Asante
Kwanele Asante is the Former Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention and Control, Republic South Africa. She serves on the World Health Organisation’s Civil Society Working Group on Non-Communicable Diseases. Kwanele has received several awards for her African cancer equity activism, including the Harvard Global Health Catalyst – 2016 African Ambassador Award. She serves as a community representative on the South African Medical Council’s Bioethics Advisory Panel and she is a former member of the External Advisory Board of the STARS Program at Harvard Medical School, USA.
Asante has a B. A. Liberal Arts (Psychology-Sociology major) degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. And LLB and MSc Medicine: Bioethics and Health Law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Recommended Resources:
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BMJ article on WHO Social Participation Resolution https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1460 (Published 10 July 2024)
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The right to participate: An under-utilised component of the right to the highest attainable standard health - https://go.shr.lc/3SeIol2
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World leaders unite to embed social participation in health systems - https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/386/bmj.q1460.full.pdf
- Remuneration of African patient partners is an important tool for health justice - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2675
Joab Wako
Joab Wako is the Founder and Executive Director of Transplant Education Kenya (TransplantEd), an organization dedicated to raising awareness about organ donation and transplantation in Kenya. Under his leadership, TransplantEd has reached over 70,000 people through in-person events and social media campaigns over the past eight years. The organization has also partnered with other NGO's and transplant centers to facilitate impactful community outreach programs. Joab's journey as a health advocate began after living with chronic kidney disease for ten years and receiving a life-saving kidney transplant from his older sister, Nerima, eight years ago. This transformative experience inspired his commitment to health advocacy, leading him to become a lived-experience advocate. As a kidney transplant recipient, Joab is passionate about fostering hope and building support networks for individuals facing organ failure. He remains dedicated to advocating for safe, equitable access to organ donation and transplantation and actively seeks partnerships to advance this vital mission.
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