USAID could join a panel with implementers to present the AI for Global Health: Defining a Collective Path Forward report. The report share four key pieces of analysis to help drive thinking across the global health field about deploying and scaling artificial intelligence in global health: 1). An o...

Blockchain Technology enables distributed public ledgers that hold immutable data in a secure and encrypted way and ensure that transactions can never be altered. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the most popular examples of blockchain usage, this “distributed ledger technology” (DLT...

Maintaining HIV patients on treatment is vital to bringing the disease into epidemic control and achieving “90-90-90”- the global objective of 90% of HIV+ individuals aware of their status, 90% of diagnosed patients on sustained treatment and 90% of treated patients achieving viral suppression. ...

In the most isolated and remote communities in Ghana and Kenya, citizens face challenges in accessing credible, consistent information about their health, well-being, and rights. Low literacy combined with poor infrastructure, low nurse-patient ratios, and limited access to mainstream media are barr...

The time is ripe for employing big data to detect epidemics and improve health care. Doing so can help battle child mortality in Burkina Faso where 1 in 10 children do not survive to the age of 5 today. Terre des hommes built an e-diagnostic tool for childcare, IeDA, which starting in 2014 now cover...

CONTEXT - transmission of HIV can occurred between mother and baby in broadly three opportunity phases: in utero, intra-partum or postnatal (likely breastfeeding) PROBLEM - despite the new guideline and broad adoption of both treatment and EID testing, south Africa has not been able to routinely est...

Given the marked levels of neonatal mortality that occurs in the first 48h of life, improving the coverage and utilization of antenatal and postnatal care is critical. Several important rate-limiting steps prevent adequate and timely coverage including: non-systematic listing of eligible clients, po...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted health systems will be essential in reducing costs and supporting scaled health systems. There is, however, a difficult transition between proof of concept of such systems and deployment into an operational environment. This is due to integration difficulty, sca...

This session will highlight PATH’s experience using digital technologies to address the TB epidemic in Tanzania, Ukraine, and India and will provide evidence and insights to inform global policy and enable further technology improvement and innovation. For Tanzania, we will present TAMBUA TB app�...

Typically during the price estimation stage for global health supply chain initiatives, often there are many unknown variables that are needed for the estimation of freight costs for various shipping legs and lanes. These unknowns often drive poor price estimates which can lead to budget overruns la...

The Enhanced Visual Assessment (EVA) System is a mobile and affordable colposcope that will dramatically transform cervical cancer screening in two critical ways. As a mobile and affordable colposcope, the EVA System drastically improves accessibility to expert care by enabling portability, remote c...

Lung cancer is the most incident and mortal of all types of cancer for both genders. The rates of this disease continue increasing rapidly year after year. Approximately 80% of the newly diagnosed lung cancers are non-small cell lung cancers. Early diagnosis of any type of cancer rise the patient pr...

Pakistan is a polio high rick country, the main reason for the disease is unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children. Household surveys or outreach services couldn't identify the unvaccinated children or get the complete record of the child vaccination, hence the government and partners are unabl...

Digital innovation can no longer be considered separately from health service delivery. Achieving universal health care (UHC) by 2030, as put forward in Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), will only be accomplished by leveraging digital and frontier technologies. A collective vision, commitment, ...

The pace of digital innovation is accelerating. As a result of consistent investments, new capabilities, and improving systems, the volume of data collected through traditional and novel methods has rapidly ballooned in recent years. These data sets are in turn informing new emerging technologies, d...

Widespread use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) for clinical care has increased the availability of longitudinal, individual level data at both facility and national level. At an individual level, data can help to monitor health outcomes. However, when health outcomes are monitored for cohorts o...

In recent years, the widespread digitisation of ID has been accompanied by large-scale breaches of privacy (in the Philippines, Nigeria, India, and more). Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the EU’s (in)famous answer to protecting the personal data of its citizens, has been bot...

Male circumcision isn't a game - its a serious medical procedure that can reduce HIV infection rates in men. And while the vast majority of male circumcisions happen without complications, there are sometimes adverse outcomes. The VMMC program in Tanzania sought to reduce complications to a minimum ...

Our AI-powered conversational interface provides users with personalized and culturally appropriate SRH information, contraceptive screenings, and referrals to service providers near them. During Appy Hour we'll invite participants to engage with askNivi's Kenya and India versions (normally geofence...

Can we improve the quality of care by putting healthcare workers into the shoes of their clients? 360-degree video delivered through a virtual reality (VR) headset gives us an opportunity to immerse health care providers into the perspective of their clients. During this session, we will discuss des...

Approximately 3 million children younger than 5 years living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) die each year from treatable clinical conditions such as pneumonia, dehydration secondary to diarrhea, and malaria. A majority of these deaths could be prevented with early clinical assessments a...

The first half of this session will provide participants with insights into what Blockchain is and what it is not. It will highlight when a global health solution will need a blockchain solution. It was give the key distinguishing features of blockchain and how it relates to traditional applications...

This session will explore how to effectively incorporate machine learning solutions to guide allocation of funding, staff, and supplies to optimize health outcomes in global health programs. It will share best practices and use cases for how to: - frame machine learning within the context of a holis...

Pneumonia is a high priority health problem for International and national organizations. It is the leading cause of death in children worldwide, killing an estimated 900,000 children under five years of age, with most of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Current methods of diagnosis u...

To achieve the strategic objective of provision of quality health services for all, we need to improve quality of data and even more importantly strengthen the culture of data use. At the heart of every ardent call for more action, lies the need to address key issues. For instance, the need to enhan...

Performance-based Financing (PBF) has been implemented many developing countries to strengthen the health system and improve health service provision and quality. PBF provides financial incentives to health providers based on the delivery of specified priority outputs, upon verification that the res...

This session will explore a satellite enumeration and ground-truthing exercise that took place in a remote part of Ethiopia under the USAID President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) VectorLink project. The goal of this activity was to find out how many eligible structures existed in a specific region o...