Ep21 - Accelerating digital health entrepreneurship in Africa

My guest on this episode is Dr. Krishna Jafa. She is a physician and public health executive who has over two and half decades of expertise in health system design and strengthening and in digital health innovation. She is the CEO of an organization known as Medic. Medic designs open-source software that enables frontline health workers to provide quality care in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach communities. Today we’ll be speaking about a very specific initiative that is being implemented by Medic -- the Digital Health Ecosystem project. As you will be hearing from Dr. Jafa, the goal of this project is to accelerate digital health entrepreneurship in LMICs. The project is being implemented in partnership with PATH and is funded by the Bayer Foundation. This is such an exciting initiative that I really believe will catalyze digital health innovation across the African continent. So, if you are a digital health entrepreneur or innovator, then this episode will be very much of interest.  You can learn more about the DHE project by visiting: https://www.path.org/media-center/catalytic-funding-bayer-foundation-accelerate-digital-health-entrepreneurship-lmics/

If you have any thoughts on this episode, or recommendations of African health innovators that you’d like me to host on the show, please reach out to me directly on Twitter @DrSam_Oti, email: sam.oti@alumni.harvard.edu or via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-oji-oti.  Please note that The MedxTek Africa Podcast is distinct from Dr. Oti's role as a Senior Program Specialist at Canada's International Development Research Centre. The information provided in this podcast is not medical advice, nor should it be construed or applied as a replacement for medical advice. The MedxTek Africa Podcast, its production team, guests and partners assume no liability for the application of the podcast's content.