I sat down to talk to Nadia Kadhim, co-founder of Naq about digital identity and healthcare for displaced people. Nadia’s father was a refugee, and we hear about her journey into human rights law and eventually into data security and compliance. We cover: That digital identity for displaced people is…
That’s right, its the hot takes from Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi. GDHF was such a great place to meet people who are building impact in healthcare with tech in rural and underserved parts of the world. #digitalhealth #ai #healthcare #underservedcommunities I roved around finding inspiring people to tell…
That’s right, its the hot takes from Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi. GDHF was such a great place to meet people who are building impact in healthcare with tech in rural and underserved parts of the world. I roved around finding inspiring people to tell me what we still…
🎯 Evaluation! A make or break thing in the digital health. I sat down with Dr Shay Soremekun from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to talk about the very hot topic of evidence generation and evaluation. Everyone's talking about LLM evals, technical performance, benchmarking. But ultimately people…
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)…
🚨 Nick Martin, social impact titan, one of the biggest voices out there in this space with a huge following and community, helping connect people to jobs, funding and much more. Founder and CEO of TechChange, working with funders, government and tech, and giving people the skills they need to…
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 :…
THE podcast that covers global and digital health. All the episodes available on the playlist: innovators, policy makers, researchers, implementers, investors. Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2fz3MhC2OI3Mk_xvM0qnmWjU1EV8OGX Check out the website and sign up to the newsletter gpodh.org As underserved communities go, refugees are up there as the most vulnerable. We already have…
Academic journals have the most innovative stuff in existence, fact. And yet, they are presented in the most boring way possible James Somauroo, SomX How do you talk about your impact in a way that moves people? JAmes shares his view.
🔍 I speak with Rubayat Khan, a systems thinker, entrepreneur, and now investor at the Endless Foundation, where he is helping reimagine how global health innovation is funded and delivered. We unpack what it means to move beyond vertical health solutions, how to prioritize innovation in an era of shrinking…
Your Metrics Don’t Matter If No One Gets the Message : Health Tech Comms with James Somauroo of SomX. We cover one of the most overlooked drivers of success in health innovation: Communication. Our guest, James Somauroo, has hosted over 400 podcasts and built one of the most influential media…
At HLTH Europe 2025 in Amsterdam, I caught up with Guy Parsons, a physician working with the health system in Malawi on good implementation of digital health. He shared a poignant story and some of the insights from working with funders and the health system. We went into the importance…
I caught up with the Remidio team at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, June 2025. Big thanks to Nirupa Rao and Saurabh from the Remidio team, and Harry Salt from Future Medicine AI for his equipment and for being such a great guinea pig to demo the tool. Remidio have developed…
A conversation on the future of the World Health Organization, rethinking how we approach digital implementation and funding in LMICs, and what it really means to decolonize global health. “Countries need to be in the driver’s seat of their own development agenda… The earmarking of assistance has to stop.” -…
Implementation. What does it mean? Why is it hard? How do we get it right? Failure. Are we, in Global Digital Health, thinking and acting in a way that doesn't help us move forward? Caroline Perrin, Director of the Geneva Digital Health Hub joins us on the Global Perspectives on…
A healthtech investor's view on healthcare in Africa in the next 10 years. If you’re building or investing for impact with underserved communities in Africa, this episode is for you. Rowena Luk has walked the talk. She is the ‘OG’ of creating visibility on digital health in Africa, and has…
Practical breadth and depth on the global state of regulation from someone at the cutting edge of regulatory policy. Shubs welcomes Hugh Harvey, founder of Hardian Health and a regulatory expert in digital health. Shubs and Hugh discuss the complex landscape of medical device regulation worldwide, with emphasis on how…
Dr. Smisha Agarwal (Johns Hopkins University Global Center for Digital Health Innovation) joins me to unpack some hard truths on the Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast. 🛑 Why global health systems remain fragile 📉 How digital tools often scale without legitimacy 📊 What’s wrong with our obsession with "impact"…
Bringing research insights to developers, research and policy folks. I'm joined by Lucy Cesnakova from DiMe in this quick dive into an important piece of research bringing insights to advance digital solutions that serve mental health around the world. DiMe's work here was great here because Lucy and the team…
Making Ethics Actionable. What can the UK’s AI Action plan reveal about the state of ethics in the digital health industry? If you are a health system leader or government entity, how do you elevate ethical approaches in your ecosystem? What levers are available? And for the builders: product leaders,…
🎙️ New Episode: Connecting Global & Local Perspectives in Digital Health Implementation In this special episode, we close out the year with two fantastic guests: Rigveda Kadam, Digital and AI Lead at FIND, and Andrew Muhire, Chief Digital Officer at Rwanda's Ministry of Health. Building on the innovator insights in…
Implementing a digital mental health solution in Rwanda. What does real, meaningful co-design look like? What does it mean to truly engage with a community to develop a solution they actually use and that addresses their problems? What incentives and mindsets allow us to, instead of 'driving' a certain technology…
Overview We are joined in this episode by Ruchit Nagar, the CEO and Co-Founder of Khushi Baby. For his efforts to deliver scalable public health impact, Ruchit has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 leader in Health Care, a World Innovation Summit in Health Young Innovator, and a…
What can we learn about creating real impact for underserved communities from The Kingdom of Eswatini, a tiny country enveloped by South Africa? Join us on the latest episode of the Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast where we hear from Executive Director of The Luke Commission, Echo Vanderwal about…