Joy Phumaphi

Joy Phumaphi is a distinguished global health leader whose decades of service have been dedicated to advancing public health in Africa and enhancing global health security. Joy serves as the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), a groundbreaking coalition of African Union Heads of State and Government working to eliminate malaria in Africa. She leads the ALMA secretariat in supporting the Heads of State and Government’s agenda to drive accountability and action for results, and to advance public and private domestic resource mobilisation, for malaria, NTDs, and other priorities in Africa’s health development agenda. She also chairs the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, co-chairs the Global Pandemic Preparedness Monitoring Board, co-chairs the Lancet Commission on Climate Change & Health, and is a member of several boards, where she is a key influencer working to ensure that Africa’s health priorities are recognised and addressed within the global health agenda. Joy's work spans malaria, NTDs, RMNCAH, nutrition, pandemic preparedness, health financing and the health intersections of gender and climate change, local manufacturing of medical countermeasures — driving more equitable, accessible, and resilient healthcare across Africa. She is an instrumental voice in championing the strengthening of health systems, health financing, and pandemic preparedness, paving the way for Africa to achieve its own health transformations, asserting that a healthy Africa is essential for the continent’s development, peace, and stability.