AMEE 2025- Plenary Speakers

Professor Champion Nyoni is a distinguished health professions education expert, currently serving at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, where he leads the Health Workforce Education and Training portfolio. With extensive experience across multiple sub-Saharan African countries, Champion has been instrumental in advancing health professions education, particularly in low-resource settings. His work focuses on faculty development, curriculum innovation, and institutional capacity-building, championing reforms such as competency-based education to meet the region’s health workforce needs. Champion’s research explores strategies to develop a competent, community-oriented health workforce that can address the pressing health challenges in underserved regions. Currently, he spearheads a transformative initiative at the WHO Regional Office for Africa aimed at re-imagining health professions education across the African region. His contributions have earned global recognition, including accolades from Sigma and the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists, where he was honored as a Distinguished Educator. Champion’s career reflects his unwavering commitment to shaping equitable and impactful health education systems that resonate with the needs of low-resource communities.