About AFROCAB

AFROCAB Treatment Access Partnership (AFROCAB) is an African network of community leaders and advocates working to accelerate equitable access to essential health commodities across infectious diseases, spanning the full continuum from diagnostics to therapeutics and prevention tools.

Originally established in 2011 to strengthen community engagement in HIV treatment access dialogues, AFROCAB has evolved into a broader platform focused on advancing access to:

• HIV treatment and prevention
• Tuberculosis and malaria commodities
• Emerging infectious disease countermeasures and engagement with researchers
• Diagnostics and laboratory systems
• Novel therapeutics and long-acting formulations
• Vaccines and preventive technologies
• Supply chain and regulatory ecosystems

Operating primarily across sub-Saharan Africa, with a secretariat in Zambia and a network spanning twenty-two countries, AFROCAB engages multinational and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers, policymakers, UN agencies, regulatory bodies, research institutions, and civil society partners, primarily community organizations/networks. AFROCAB’s work now centers on building an integrated health commodities ecosystem approach — recognizing that sustainable access requires alignment across:

• Global advocacy and policy influence
• Regional manufacturing and regulatory harmonization
• Financing and procurement systems
• Community accountability mechanisms
• Country coordination platforms

Our goal is to ensure that African communities have timely access to high-quality, affordable, and context-appropriate diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention products across priority infectious diseases.

The Role of the Board

Board Members will provide strategic oversight and steward AFROCAB’s governance integrity during a pivotal era of global health transition, supply chain reform, and financing realignment.

Board Members will:

• Provide strategic direction and long-term institutional vision (direction)
• Ensure strong governance and policy oversight
• Uphold principles of transparency, accountability and integrity.
• Support sustainable resource mobilization, diversified financing strategies and building partnerships
• Provide fiduciary oversight and risk management guidance
• Strengthen institutional credibility within regional and global governance platforms
• Uphold the organization’s ethical standards and governance principles
• Serve as ambassadors for AFROCAB within national, continental and international forums

Priority Expertise Sought

We strongly encourage applications from leaders with demonstrated experience in:

• Regional and Global Health Governance
• Multilateral engagement (e.g., global financing mechanisms and regional bodies)
• Health commodities market shaping and access strategies
• Regulatory systems strengthening and harmonization
• Resource Mobilization & Donor Relations
• Public Financial Management & Governance
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance
• Audit & Risk Management
• Institutional Development & Strategy
• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
• Communications & Policy Advocacy
• Pharmaceutical policy, diagnostics systems, or supply chain management and local manufacturing

Experience serving on regional boards, global technical committees, procurement platforms, regulatory agencies, policy development and adoption or transnational coalitions will be highly valued. Gender balance, linguistic diversity, and equitable representation across sub-Saharan Africa are strongly encouraged.

Commitment

Board Members will:

• Board Members shall serve for a term of two years and may be eligible for reappointment for a maximum of 2 consecutive terms.
• Attend quarterly Board meetings (virtual and/or in-person)
• Participate in relevant committees
• Provide ongoing strategic counsel and governance oversight

This is a non-executive governance role.

Why Join AFROCAB?

Africa stands at a defining moment in health sovereignty and commodity security.

Serving on the AFROCAB Board offers an opportunity to:

• Shape governance reforms that strengthen accountability across health systems
• Influence regional and global policy decisions affecting diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention tools
• Support African-led solutions in developing local manufacturing, regulatory harmonization, and procurement mechanisms
• Advance community-centered oversight of infectious disease responses
• Contribute to sustainable, ecosystem-based health commodity access strategies

AFROCAB is committed to ethical leadership, institutional excellence, and inclusive governance.

We invite visionary leaders from across sub-Saharan Africa — particularly those with experience in regional and global governance — to help shape the next chapter of accountable, African-driven health systems transformation.

People living with HIV as well as individuals with lived experience of tuberculosis, cryptococcal meningitis or cervical cancer are especially encouraged to apply.

• Provide strategic direction and long-term institutional vision (direction)
• Ensure strong governance and policy oversight
• Uphold principles of transparency, accountability and integrity.
• Support sustainable resource mobilization, diversified financing strategies and building partnerships
• Provide fiduciary oversight and risk management guidance
• Strengthen institutional credibility within regional and global governance platforms
• Uphold the organization’s ethical standards and governance principles
• Serve as ambassadors for AFROCAB within national, continental and international forums
• Attend quarterly Board meetings (virtual and/or in-person)
• Participate in relevant committees
• Provide ongoing strategic counsel and governance oversight

• Regional and Global Health Governance
• Multilateral engagement (e.g., global financing mechanisms and regional bodies)
• Health commodities market shaping and access strategies
• Regulatory systems strengthening and harmonization
• Resource Mobilization & Donor Relations
• Public Financial Management & Governance
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance
• Audit & Risk Management
• Institutional Development & Strategy
• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
• Communications & Policy Advocacy
• Pharmaceutical policy, diagnostics systems, or supply chain management and local manufacturing

• Demonstrated experience in regional and global governance systems, including engagement with multilateral institutions, global health financing mechanisms, regional economic communities, regulatory harmonization initiatives, and cross-border policy platforms.
• Experience serving on regional boards, global technical committees, procurement platforms, regulatory agencies, policy development and adoption or transnational coalitions.