Healthcare leaders and stakeholders will converge in Nairobi, Kenya, for the inaugural World Health Expo (WHX).
The conference, scheduled to take place between October 6 to October 8, 2025, at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), will bring together more than 8,000 participants.
There will be more than 300 exhibitors, representatives from 20 countries and more than 65 international speakers.
Who will host Nairobi health expo?
The WHX Nairobi and WHX Labs Nairobi events will be the Ministry of Health (MoH) and supported by the Africa CDC, Kenya Healthcare Foundation, and the Kenya Medical Association.
These events take the place of Medic East Africa and Medlab East Africa, which have been the leading healthcare and laboratory events in Kenya for the past seven years.
Exhibitors at the WHX Nairobi will showcase healthcare innovations, attract investment, and foster collaboration between businesses, governments and innovators.
The event aims to provide hospital executives, laboratory managers, procurement specialists, and government officials with a place to drive positive change.
The forum, backed by President William Ruto’s administration through the Ministry of Health, will bring together policymakers and global leaders in an exclusive forum to drive strategic healthcare transformation and policy innovation, addressing the critical deficit of healthcare workers to find sustainable solutions that help address the region’s most pressing healthcare challenges.
Group Director of Partnerships & External Affairs, AMREF Health Africa Desta Lakew said participants’ discussions will include expanding medical education, improving laboratory science training, and creating incentives for rural practice.
“Kenya’s journey toward Universal Health Coverage is grounded in the principle of Primary Health Care. The five transformative health laws passed in 2023 have laid a robust foundation, ensuring equitable access to services, sustainable financing, interoperable digital systems, and a people-centred, data-driven health system. My hope for the WHX Nairobi roundtable is that it catalyses greater political goodwill and innovation toward scalable, people-first solutions that can be replicated across Africa,” said Lakew in a statement sent to News 9 Kenya.
Why health stakeholders converge in Nairobi
According to event organisers, the discussions will centre on sustainable solutions to the healthcare workers shortage, which has been a hindrance to Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
This followed a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which shows that Kenya produces 7,650 new health workers each year, less than the required workforce by 70,000 staff.
WHO projected a healthcare workers shortage in the country to grow by more than 114,000 by 2030 and a staggering 170,000 by 2035.
The conference topics will specifically address diagnostic workforce shortages through specialised training programs in laboratory management, clinical microbiology and parasitology, as well as molecular diagnostics and genomics.
To discover the latest lab innovations and trends, develop your industry knowledge, build strong relationships with industry leaders and secure new deals on the show floor, all at WHX Labs Nairobi, the core medical laboratory event in the East Africa region, register via the expo portal.
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