Ms. Ntsetselele Kago

Position: Manager, Human Medicines Unit - Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (BoMRA)
Categories: RA Speakers 2024

Ms. Ntsetselele Kago is a pharmacist with experience in Regulatory affairs specifically assessment or evaluation of the quality, safety, and efficacy data of applications for registration of medicines. She has experience in Regulatory affairs at national and international level. Her current scope of work includes registration of human medicines to ensure that they are safe, efficacious and of good quality. Prior to her Regulatory work, she has worked in government facilities in the pharmaceutical sector.

For more than 12 years, experience as a medicine’s regulator in Botswana. She started regulatory work under the Ministry of Health as a Principal Pharmacist until she joined the Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (BOMRA) in 2018 during its inception as a Dossier Assessor under the Human Medicines Unit. In March 2022 she became a Manager for the Human Medicines unit at BOMRA the position she holds till today.

Ntsetselele holds a Diploma in Pharmacy, a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy from Rhodes University in South Africa, and an MSc in Pharmacy Administration and Policy Regulation from the University of Western Cape, South Africa.