When your music app asks you to log in to go online, then tells you you need to be in online mode to log in? That’s #offlineworst. In the last 5 years the digital tools that back development have made huge strides in their maturity. Many teams have had the time to invest in modern UI’s, making i...

The session will present the Digital Health Leadership Program of the African Alliance of digital health networks. The Digital Health Leadership Program is designed to help develop the technical capacity in African digital health leaders, particularly in government agencies, to develop, manage, and ...

Over the past decade, we have made marked progress in formalizing the field of digital health. From a 2018 World Health Assembly Resolution to the 2019 launch of the Digital Health Guidelines, digital health has gained unprecedented centrality in the health systems strengthening discourse. A number ...

In a world where 400M people have no access to healthcare and 2B have poor access (unaffordable, distant), telemedicine is seen by many as one of the most promising routes to close these gaps and speed universal health coverage. Indeed, experience in many low-resource settings has shown that digital...

Why is it taking so long to scale up digital health? Three years ago, Digital Square was launched as a partnership of 40 organizations working together to solve three well-known barriers to scale in digital health: (1) fragmented, uncoordinated investments, (2) lack of investment into interoperabili...

The presenter will guide the audience through a journey in the development of 3 distinct digital solutions in Mozambique: (1) development of two national digital platforms for human resource information systems and telehealth (Telessaude) in Mozambique; (2) The development of a platform that links n...

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...

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 ...

In developing countries, access to appropriate laboratory equipment is a major constraint to effective surveillance of infectious disease and antibiotic resistance. Even when equipment is available, it is often not appropriate to the local context – too easily broken, intolerant of the local elect...

We all know the power of mobile phones in reaching people in low-income contexts. But traditional mobile-based interventions have been used for just that - to reach people: either to push messaging at users, or extract data from them. They have been built around either basic SMS, WhatsApp or new app...

Two years ago the opening keynote of the Forum asked panelists and participants to place their bets on the future of digital health. One of the most common (and, we're happy to report, winning!) bets was on increased donor coordination. USAID created Digital Square to enable that co-investment, and ...

As internet connectivity continues to expand, the sexual and gender-based violence women and girls face offline is being replicated online. When women enter an online environment, they face a disproportional risk of digital harassment, cyber stalking, doxxing, or the non-consensual distribution of i...