Dr. Frank N. Laban is a Senior Pharmacist with a B. Pharm and an MSc in Pharmacy Administration. He has over 17 years of experience as a medical product regulator at the Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA).

Currently, he is the Principal Registration Officer for Allied Substances at ZAMRA, where he oversees marketing authorization activities for medical devices, including IVDs. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with the WHO Prequalification (PQ) team on the assessment of IVDs as the focal person for the WHO Collaborative Registration Procedure (CRP) in Zambia.

At the continental level, he is an active member of the African Medical Devices Forum and serves as Vice Chair of the Medical Device Technical Committee of the AMDF, reflecting his dedication to advancing medical device regulation and healthcare safety across Africa.