Accelerating Health Product Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa

Hassan Masum is a senior research coordinator with the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked with academic labs, government, engineering firms, and the National Research Council of Canada. He is a contributing author to WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century and Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace.

Abdallah S. Daar is a senior scientist at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He won the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics and Science in 2005.

Sara Al-Bader is a PhD student at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, focusing on life sciences innovations in South Africa and Ghana that address health needs.

Ronak Shah is a research assistant at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, working on ways to commercialize health biotechnology in Africa.

Peter A. Singer is interim director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, and recipient of the 2007 Michael Smith Prize for Health Research from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is the corresponding author for this article: peter.singer@mrcglobal.org.