The PharmaLink Mission
Bridging Gaps with Innovative Care
Pharmacy is often the first point of contact between a patient and the healthcare system. PharmaLink makes sure that contact counts.
Across Africa, pharmacists, alongside clinicians, community health workers, and private sector providers, reach patients that health systems often cannot: in neighborhoods, markets, and towns where a formal clinical may be hours away. Yet the potential of these trusted providers has too often gone unrealized, limited by gaps in training isolation from peers, and a lack of data to demonstrate the true impact of their work.
PharmaLink was built to close those gaps – with pharmacists at the center, and the wider private sector healthcare community within reach.
Our eLearning platform delivers high-quality, practical training designed for the realities of pharmacy practice in Africa, with content relevant to the full spectrum of private sector providers working alongside them. Our community forum connects pharmacists and fellow healthcare providers across countries and contexts, creating space for shared learning, peer support, and the kind of cross-disciplinary insight that strengthens care for everyone. And our data insights dashboards capture the evidence of every vaccine administered, every patient counseled, every life potentially changed, aggregating the collective impact of a private sector that is finally working as one.
Together, these tools don’t just improve individual practice, they build the case for pharmacy-led, private sector care as a cornerstone of primary healthcare across the continent.
Seamless Integration
We bring pharmacists, other healthcare providers, and partners together within a connected data-driven ecosystem, breaking down silos to enable more coordinated and effective care.
Enhanced Convenience
By leveraging the accessibility of local pharmacies, we make it easier for patients to receive essential health services close to home. This improves the patient experience and fosters stronger continuity of care.
Better Health Outcomes
With timely interventions and coordinated care, we build healthier communities, reduce healthcare system strain, and boost readiness for public health challenges—including future pandemics.
Our Purpose
Fully Integrating Pharmacies into Primary Care
We believe that where you receive healthcare should never determine the quality of care you receive.
Across Africa, the private sector touches more patients more often than any other part of the health system. Pharmacists open their doors before clinics do, stay open after hospitals close, and serve communities that formal health infrastructure has yet to reach. Community health workers cress the last mile. Private providers fill gaps that public systems cannot.
And yet, for too long, these providers have operated at the margins of health policy – underestimated, under-resourced, and under-connected. Their impact has been real but largely invisible, their potential constrained not by lack of commitment, but by lack of support.
PharmaLink exists to change that. Our purpose is to make the private sector’s contribution to health in Africa impossible to ignore – by building tools that elevate individual practice, the networks that turn isolated providers into a connected profession, and the evidence base that makes the case for pharmacy-led care where it matters most: in policy, in funding, and in the communities that depend on it.
When pharmacists and private sector providers are properly equipped, genuinely connected, and visibly valued, health systems don’t just improve at the edges. They transform from the inside out.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Your PharmaLink People
At the heart of PharmaLink is a dedicated global and regional leadership team bringing together expertise in pharmacy, digital health, and health systems strengthening. Guided by a shared vision of making quality healthcare accessible everywhere, our leaders work across regions to connect pharmacists, scale innovations, and build stronger primary care systems for communities worldwide.
Betty Abera, BPharm, MBA
Betty is a Global health expert and pharmacist leading PharmaLink’s immunization delivery across Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Kenya.
Alexandra Miller
Alexandra is a global health leader supporting multi-country programs and strong partnerships, for health system strengthening.
Adebayo Adebisi, MD
Adebayo is an expert in project leadership and health system reform, focused on immunization and private sector collaboration.
Belete Ayalneh, BPharm, MPH
Belete is a public health pharmacist advancing pharmacy services through practice, policy, research, and academic leadership.
Florence Wachira, MD
Florence is a health expert bridging clinical care and public health to foster equity, education, and cross-sector collaboration.
Mersha Alene, MPH
Mersha improves public health systems expanding access to immunization and reproductive health.
Temitope Adenuga
Temitope is an immunization specialist focused on client-centered care through strategic engagement and supportive supervision.
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Our Partners
Together, we deliver training, expand access, and strengthen health systems across Africa.
PharmaLink collaborates with trusted global and national leaders to empower pharmacists and frontline providers. Together, we deliver training, expand access, and build resilient health systems that serve communities across Africa.
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