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GSCF World Congress: Supporting The Global Self-Care Agenda

 
• By David Ridley

Building trust, collaboration with healthcare professionals and promoting self-care in Africa were among the topics discussed during the second session on day one of the GSCF's World Congress 2022. Speakers included Bayer's Abbie Lennox, FIP's Sham Moodley and the Self-Care Trailblazer Group's Sarah Onyango 

• Source: Alamy

“Our currency is trust. One of our biggest challenges today is understanding what trust means in self-care,” stated Abbie Lennox, global head of regulatory, medical, safety & product compliance at Bayer Consumer Health.

Kicking off the second session of the GSCF World Congress, Lennox noted that when talking about self-care, it is easy...

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