Pharm. Mrs. Sybil Nana Ama Ossei Agyeman Yeboah

Position: Regulatory Consultant & CEO of SNAAP Access
Categories: RA Speakers 2024

Sybil a Ghanaian and a Pharmacist with 35 years’ experience and 25 years as Pharmaceutical and Quality Assurance Analyst. She was the former Ag. Principal Program Officer for Public Health and Pharmaceuticals as well as the Head of Public Health Division of West African Health Organization (WAHO) for the past 14 years. She was the MRH coordinator and currently on retirement but supporting the West Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Initiative (WA-MRH), the Pooled Procurement Mechanism and eCTD development in the ECOWAS region. Sybil supported must of the Regulatory Agencies in the ECOWAS region to achieve Autonomy as well as strengthen their regulatory systems, quality management systems and WHO Global benchmarking maturity levels of which FDA-Ghana and NAFDAC- Nigeria have obtain ML3 while others are in ML2.

She has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Initiative (AMRHI) and the development of the Africa Medicines Agency Treaty as well as the preparations towards its establishment. She has impacted a lot on the human resource training and capacity development of regional professionals and experts in the pharmaceutical sector, supported building of most local manufacturers capacity to comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in the ECOWAS region.

She is a PhD candidate in Public Health Administration and Policy (Walden University-USA) and Lead Auditor for (ISO 45001:2018-OHSMS, ISO14001:2015-EMS, ISO9001:2015-QMS, ISO17025:2017-QCL. Coordinated the ECOWAS COVID-19 vaccines Taskforce to ensure effective access of COVID-19 vaccines and other medical products for the region during the pandemic. Identified 5 local vaccines manufacturers in the region, supported and each of the manufactures are at different levels of development to produce various vaccines from 2024 to enhance the existing vaccine industry of which one is an antigen developer and the another has started producing anti-snake serum in Ghana. Sybil is a Regulatory Consultant and the CEO for SNAAP Access.