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Health and wellbeing are not produced by clinics and hospitals alone. They are system outcomes shaped by land and ocean systems, livelihoods, trusted care pathways, and the institutional architectures that determine access, quality, and financing.
Health and wellbeing outcomes are determined less by individual services than by how systems are structured, financed, and governed. When prevention, early detection, community-based care, science and innovation, regulation, workforce recognition, and digital infrastructure operate in isolation, health systems remain reactive, costly, and fragile.
Across Africa, this fragmentation limits scale, weakens resilience, and raises long-term risk for governments, insurers, and investors. Treating health and wellbeing as system issues shifts the focus from delivery to architecture — enabling coordinated, prevention-led models that support population-level outcomes and long-term stability.
Indigenomics Africa shifts the discussion from inclusion to system design. The focus is on how Indigenous and biomedical systems can operate in parallel within coherent institutional frameworks that support safety, accountability, and scale.
The conference examines how Indigenous health systems can interface with health financing, regulation, referral pathways, workforce recognition, and digital oversight. Rather than informal integration, the emphasis is on governed, auditable, and investable system components that preserve Indigenous authority while meeting public health and market requirements.
By addressing governance, financing, regulation, and digital infrastructure together, Indigenomics Africa advances practical pathways for plural health systems that strengthen prevention, reduce long-term risk, and support sustainable wellbeing outcomes.
This stream examines how Indigenous authority interfaces with local governance, national policy environments, and responsible private-sector engagement. It addresses legitimacy, consent, ethics, and public–private collaboration, with attention to governance models that reduce long-term social, environmental, and ESG risk while enabling scalable participation.
This stream focuses on pathways that translate Indigenous Knowledge Systems into validated, standards-aligned innovation across health, agri-innovation, materials, ocean-based systems, and energy. Emphasis is placed on research governance, safety, integrity, and responsible application at scale.
This stream explores how markets, capital, insurance, and inclusive finance can support Indigenous-led economic participation. Topics include ethical supply chains, cooperative and enterprise models, blended finance, risk-sharing, and value-chain development that retain value locally while enabling investable pathways.
This stream addresses education pathways, recognition of prior learning, practitioner regulation, skills transfer, and workforce resilience. It examines how innovation and enterprise adoption translate into durable livelihoods, continuity of practice, and measurable wellbeing outcomes at community level.
The plenary provides a forward-looking systems lens on Indigenous Knowledge Systems as economic infrastructure for wellbeing economies. It integrates insights across governance, science, markets, and community systems to explore long-term resilience, climate adaptation, and inclusive growth trajectories.
Digital systems, data governance, and AI are treated as cross-cutting enablers across all streams.
Indigenomics Africa 2026 is IPROSA's flagship convening to align policy, investment, and institutional pathways for Indigenous-led health, wellbeing, and economic systems across Africa.
Outcomes include shared system priorities, policy signals, and equitable and inclusive coordination pathways that continue to be developed between annual conferences through IPROSA’s institutional stewardship.
Indigenomics Africa 2026 invites concise, policy-relevant abstracts examining health and wellbeing as economic infrastructure for Africa’s long-term resilience, inclusion, and growth.
The conference convenes decision-makers across government, finance, academia, Indigenous institutions, and enterprise to align governance, science, markets, and capital around practical system pathways.
Priority will be given to submissions that inform:
Indigenomics Africa convenes curated policy dialogues and closed-door roundtables to address system-level challenges at the intersection of health, wellbeing, climate resilience, and inclusive growth. These sessions are designed for decision-makers seeking alignment across governance, finance, innovation, and community systems.
Dialogues focus on translating shared priorities into coherent policy, regulatory, and investment pathways that reduce long-term risk and enable scalable, prevention-led, and community-anchored solutions. All dialogues are co-designed with IPROSA to ensure ethical engagement, Indigenous governance alignment, and actionable outcomes beyond the conference.
Indigenomics Africa invites policy-relevant academic contributions that advance Africa-centred scholarship on health, wellbeing, and economic transformation. Submissions should engage system design, institutional reform, or scalable implementation, while recognising plural knowledge systems, including Indigenous Knowledge.
Selected papers will inform policy dialogue and may be considered for post-conference publication pathways, supporting long-term learning and evidence generation aligned with Africa’s development priorities.
Indigenomics Africa welcomes participation from Indigenous leaders, practitioners, community anchors, innovators, investors, and system builders whose work delivers real-world outcomes.
Participants contribute grounded insight from Indigenous-led health, environmental, or economic systems and engage through panels, showcases, dialogues, or working groups.
Selected contributions will:
Indigenomics Africa is not a standalone event. Accepted contributions form part of an ongoing systems platform, with learning and collaboration continuing between conferences through IPROSA’s institutional secretariat.
Submissions should demonstrate policy relevance, institutional applicability, and system-level insight.
Abstracts should clearly articulate:
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