🌍SACRA Conference 2025 – Full Recap

Theme: Partner for Impact

SACRA Conference 2025 delivered two unforgettable days of insight, innovation, and connection—uniting Africa’s clinical research leaders around a shared mission: to build partnerships that drive health equity, economic opportunity, and global impact.

🔹 Day 1: Strategic Partnerships & Innovation in Health Research

The opening day set a bold tone, spotlighting Africa’s projected population of 2.5 billion by 2050 and its ~30% share of the global disease burden. The message was clear: strategic partnerships are not optional—they’re essential.

Key themes included:

• Overcoming fragmented systems and misinformation through collaboration

• Strengthening research capacity and unlocking shared economic value

• Building trust and transparency in clinical operations

• Prioritizing logistics, packaging, and regulatory compliance

• Embracing digitization, training, and integrated technology to shape Africa’s research future

  
  

💡 Takeaway: Build relationships with a personal touch—and together, we’ll bridge clinical trials to better health for all.

🔸 Day 2: Regulatory Leadership, Ethics & Technology

Day two deepened the conversation, focusing on leadership in clinical research through regulatory innovation, training, and data-driven collaboration.

Highlights included:

• SAHPRA’s role as a responsible enabler, shaping ethical frameworks for community impact

• Training innovation through AI, digital tools, and multi-stakeholder models

• Emphasis on transparency, documentation, and sponsor oversight—ethics and safety go hand in hand

• Growing interest in Target Trial Emulation to explore real-world outcomes and underrepresented populations

• Technology and data sharing as tools to empower patients and expand participation

🎯 Final Reflection

SACRA 2025 wasn’t just a conference—it was a catalyst. A space where Africa’s research community gathered to connect, collaborate, and lead.

The message remains: Let’s keep partnering for impact.

"Coming together is a beginning;

Keeping together is progress;

Working together is success!"

Henry Ford.

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