1. Innovative strategies to fight epidemics and pandemics

• Research on tests, medicines and vaccines;
• Manufacturing of tests, medicines and vaccines;
• Capacity development;
• Use of digital solutions;
• Regional / cross-border surveillance and coordination.

2. Strengthen one health approach to address communicable and non-communicable diseases

• Improve management of communicable diseases (Testing and treatment of Viral, Bacterial, Fungal and Parasitic infections; Antimicrobial resistance). The above diseases include, but are not limited to HIV, TB, Malaria and other zoonotic diseases, Tropical Neglected Diseases, hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases;
• Improve management of non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, mental disorders, injuries, tobacco and substance abuse;
• Food and nutrition security;
• Public, environmental and occupational health (pollution, water sanitation and health, work environment including staff motivation, satisfaction and mental well-being;
• Climate change and natural disasters (whether with extreme temperatures, floods, earthquakes, dryness…);
• Snake bites.

3. Harnessing digital solutions to strengthen health systems

• Legal, regulatory frameworks and coordination;
• Digital Infrastructure, equipment and software;
• Human resource capacity development;
• Public Private Partnership and collaboration.

4. Improve health financing and social protection, access to quality healthcare and services to accelerate the achievement of universal health coverage

• Legal and regulatory frameworks and coordination;
• Health financing and social protection (increase the budget allocated to health sector, improve the coverage by health insurances including the Community Based Health Insurance);
• Access to quality healthcare and services (geographical, financial and cultural accessibility; infrastructure, supply chain, safety and security of tests, medicines, and vaccines, human resource capacity development, community-based health interventions);
• Public Private Partnership and collaboration.

5. Reproductive Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health

• Sexual and reproductive health;
• Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission;
• Maternal and Neonatal Health;
• Child and Adolescent Health;
• Food security and nutrition.

6. Herbal and Traditional Medicine

• Integration of traditional medicine into healthcare systems;
• Evidence on the use of herbal and traditional medicine;
• Safety and efficacy of herbal and traditional medicine;
• Success stories of traditional medicine;
• Intellectual property among traditional medicine knowledge holders and practitioners.