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Jun 2026
HIMSS hot takes: doing better with AI in healthcare
At HIMSS Europe, I got together with some fantastic podcasters who care about what matters in healthcare. What are some things we need to do better on implementing tech and AI in healthcare? With Valentine Kamau of @AIHealthBeatPodcast , Tjasa Zjac of@facesofdigitalhealth and Claire Murigande from @NarrativesofPurpose
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Apr 2025
Trailer: Global Perspectives on Digital Health Podcast
An introduction to the Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast,who it is for, what it covers, and why these conversations matter.
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Jun 2026
HIMSS hot takes: doing better with AI in healthcare
At HIMSS Europe, I got together with some fantastic podcasters who care about what matters in healthcare. What are some things we need to do better on implementing tech and AI in healthcare? With Valentine Kamau of @AIHealthBeatPodcast , Tjasa Zjac of@facesofdigitalhealth and Claire Murigande from @NarrativesofPurpose
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Apr 2026
AI in low resource settings. What developers should know
Whilst it is true that in low resource settings, access is a challenge and therefore more likely that the benefits outweight risks compared to the baseline, developers still need to to take a responsible approach on building the right way. Joe Alderman shares his insights ont he gpodh.org podcast. Get the full insights here on what it takes to create AI for underserved communities.…
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Oct 2025
Saving lives with drones
Echo Vanderwal of The Luke Commission in Eswatini talks about how they built a locally maintained drone system to help deliver vital medicines like snake antivenom and other critical medicines to people when they needed them. The impact was incredible. That year, they reduced snakebite deaths (previously a near certainty) to ZERO in the country.…
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Sep 2025
Founder challenges in refugee digital health
Founder, Aral Surmeli talks about the challenges building HERA digital health, a digital tool for Syrian refugees in Turkey. Aral talks about how HERA were affected by the USAID funding cuts and stop work order in Feb 2025. Check out the full episode, full of real talk and insight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_p3zJGFKf0
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Mar 2026
Digital health and AI in healthcare hot takes #3
The third instalment of unfiltered hot takes on AI and digital health,what is working, what is hype, and what the field needs to hear.
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Feb 2026
Digital innovation in humanitarian settings
How does an organisation like the ICRC - working in conflict zones, disasters, and last-mile settings - approach digital transformation? Javier Elkin spent three years building the ICRC's digital health unit from scratch, covering prioritisation frameworks, DHIS2 implementation, and the MOOVE/Medotron initiative to validate LLMs for humanitarian settings.
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Feb 2026
USAID cuts, women's health and leading the right way
A direct conversation about the impact of USAID funding cuts on women's health programmes globally, and what principled leadership looks like when the landscape shifts rapidly.
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Feb 2026
Why displaced people need a digital identity
Without a digital identity, displaced people cannot access healthcare, financial services, or legal protection. This talk explores why digital identity is foundational infrastructure for refugee and migrant health.
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Jan 2026
Digital health and AI in healthcare hot takes #2
More unfiltered takes on the state of AI and digital health,from the overhyped to the genuinely transformative.
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Jan 2026
Digital health and AI in healthcare hot takes #1
The first in a series of sharp, direct takes on AI and digital health,cutting through the noise to what actually matters.
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Nov 2025
Evaluation Level Up: Measuring what matters
A practical guide to levelling up how digital health programmes are evaluated,moving beyond vanity metrics toward evidence that actually drives decisions and funding.
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Oct 2025
Social impact in a time of scarcity, and the power of community
How do organisations sustain social impact when resources are scarce? This conversation explores community-led approaches and what it means to build resilience into health programmes.
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Oct 2025
Digital health innovation with refugee communities: a founder's story
A founder's first-hand account of building digital health tools with and for refugee communities,the challenges, the pivots, and what it actually takes to do this work with integrity.
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Aug 2025
Quick insight: How to level up your evidence comms in digital health
A short, practical guide to communicating evidence more effectively in digital health,what funders, policy makers, and implementers actually want to see.
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Aug 2025
Evolving beyond verticals and funding what matters in healthcare
Why the siloed, disease-specific model of global health funding is holding back progress,and what a systems-oriented approach to investment could look like instead.
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Jul 2025
Healthtech comms: communicating your impact with great storytelling
James Somauroo of SomX on why most digital health organisations communicate badly, how great storytelling changes that, and the frameworks that actually work for impact-driven brands.
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Jul 2025
HLTH Europe 2025 spotlight: Local ownership lessons from Malawi
A spotlight conversation from HLTH Europe 2025 on what genuine local ownership looks like in digital health,drawing on hard-won lessons from implementation in Malawi.
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Jul 2025
HLTH Europe 2025 spotlight: Remidio,scaling from India to Europe and the US
A spotlight conversation from HLTH Europe 2025 with Remidio on the journey of scaling an AI-powered ophthalmology device from India to global markets,and what that path reveals about regulation, evidence, and market access.
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Jul 2025
How the World Health Organization is evolving, with WHO Digital Director Alain Labrique
Alain Labrique, Director of Digital Health and Innovation at WHO, on how the organisation is navigating digital transformation, AI governance, and its role in shaping global digital health norms.
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Jun 2025
Implementation 101 and how to fail well
A grounded look at the realities of implementing digital health in low-resource settings,including the failure modes nobody talks about and what it actually means to learn from them.
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May 2025
From crisis to revolution: why Africa's moment is now,a healthtech VC's case
A venture capital perspective on why the confluence of mobile penetration, young demographics, and healthcare need makes Africa the most compelling opportunity in global healthtech right now.
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May 2025
Regulatory strategy for founders and policy makers
Demystifying the regulatory landscape for digital health,how founders should think about regulatory strategy early, and what policy makers need to understand about the tools they are overseeing.
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May 2025
Health First, Innovation Second
A provocative argument for recentering health outcomes,not technological novelty,as the primary metric for digital health success. What changes when you genuinely put health first?
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Apr 2025
Digital mental health research insights with Lucy Cesnakova from DiME
Lucy Cesnakova from the Digital Medicine Society (DiME) shares research insights on digital mental health,what the evidence says, where the gaps are, and how researchers are navigating a fast-moving space.
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Apr 2025
Making ethics actionable in digital health with Jess Morley
Jess Morley on moving beyond ethics washing,how to embed genuine ethical reasoning into the design, deployment, and governance of digital health tools, particularly those using AI.
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Apr 2025
Policy insights from the Rwanda Ministry of Health and FIND
A conversation at the intersection of national digital health policy and diagnostic innovation,drawing on Rwanda's experience as one of Africa's most ambitious digital health implementers.
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Apr 2025
Co-designing mental health solutions with young people in Rwanda
What does genuine co-design look like when building digital mental health tools with young people in Rwanda? This conversation explores methodology, power dynamics, and what it means to design with,not for.
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Apr 2025
Supporting rural healthcare in India with technology
How technology is being deployed to reach rural and last-mile communities in India,the infrastructure challenges, the human factors, and the solutions that are actually working at scale.
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Apr 2025
Impactful digital health transformation through a clear vision and values: insights from Eswatini
Lessons from Eswatini's digital health transformation journey,how a clear national vision and grounded values shaped the choices made, the partnerships formed, and the outcomes achieved.
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Apr 2025
What is the right approach for regulation and evaluation of digital health technologies?
A critical look at how digital health technologies should be regulated and evaluated,balancing innovation with safety, and speed with rigour, particularly in low- and middle-income country contexts.
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Apr 2025
Creating impact with AI in isolated communities
How AI tools are being designed and deployed to reach communities with limited connectivity and infrastructure,and what it takes to make impact real rather than theoretical in these contexts.
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Apr 2025
Bridging the Gap: The Last Mile of Healthcare with Bilal Mateen, Digital Square @ PATH
Bilal Mateen of Digital Square at PATH on the persistent challenge of reaching the last mile in healthcare,what the data shows, what the evidence supports, and where the biggest leverage points lie.
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Dec 2024
Health Data Poverty (Part 1) with Dr Xiao Liu
Dr Xiao Liu on the concept of health data poverty,why the systematic under-representation of low- and middle-income country populations in global health datasets is a structural problem with real consequences for AI and digital health.
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Dec 2024
Health Data Poverty (Part 2) with Professor Alexandre Filho
Professor Alexandre Filho continues the health data poverty conversation,exploring the structural causes, the geopolitical dimensions, and what it would take to build genuinely representative global health data infrastructure.
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