Dr Nancy Ngum is a Public Health Expert at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) working under the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) initiative. Her primary responsibility is focused on the operationalization of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), by supporting the coordination of the Regional Medicines Regulatory harmonisation programmes. She is also leading the team of experts in Africa tasked to oversee the development of a Regulatory Information Management System (RIMS) and Regulatory Information Sharing Platform (RISP) for Africa. She is passionate about patient access to safe, quality and efficacious medical products and has embarked on conducting studies to assess the performance of Regulatory Review Systems with a view to improving patients’ access to Medicines in Africa. Dr Ngum holds a Ph.D. in Regulatory Sciences from the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Based on her passion, she has authored several publications in top medical journals and has published a book on “The Role of Regional Initiatives in the Operationalization of the African Medicines Agency