Africa has made remarkable strides in a few short years to improve its health security, including increasing the Continent’s capacity to meet its own health needs. African institutions like AUDA-NEPAD and Africa CDC are putting in place programs to boost local production capacity for vaccines, medicines and equipment, complementing the critical efforts to harmonize regulatory approaches across the Continent, including through standing up the African Medicines Agency (AMA).  All of these activities envision working with the private sector to attract more investment and financing for the broader health sector.  To succeed, Africa needs to put in place the right market access measures to allow the African health market to grow sufficiently to support both greater African manufacturing and improved access to more innovative healthcare solutions.  This session will explore the opportunities and challenges shaping the continent’s trading ecosystem.  Panelists will examine how the private sector and African governments can collaborate to establish sustainable financing models, incentivize innovation, and create investment-friendly environments.