Integrating the Digital and the Personal for Universal Health Coverage

A half-day virtual event, hosted by mothers2mothers (m2m) on Wednesday, 10^th November 2021.

Supported by a “Shapers Council” of senior representatives from m2m, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BRAC, Johnson & Johnson, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), we are convening a group of leading thinkers to share experiences around the role of technology in health service delivery, with a particular focus on how to blend digital services with in-person efforts for the best possible outcomes for clients and health workers alike.

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Event Programme

Time (All in SAST, GMT +2)	Agenda
14:00 – 14:25	Opening Plenary Speakers: Frank Beadle de Palomo, President and CEO, mothers2mothers Dr Renata Tallarico, Youth Team Lead and SYP Regional Coordinator, UNFPA East and Southern Africa Wilbroda Awuor Akuro, Community Mentor Mother Team Leader, mothers2mothers, Kenya
14:25 – 15:30	Lightning presentations: Service delivery models for the future to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage. Speakers: Hon. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Minister of Health, Uganda Upile Kachile, Senior Program Manager & Solutions Owner, Health Centre by Phone, VillageReach Rich Bryson, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, reach52 Marjorie Mbule, Senior Programme Lead, mothers2mothers
15:30 – 16:30	Plenary Session: Centring the Health Worker – Digital health and health workers: Balancing patient and health worker needs. Speakers: Dr. William Mapham, Founder & CEO, Vula Mobile Dr. Wendy Leonard, Executive Director, TIP Global Health Kira-Leigh Kuhnert, South Africa Program Manager, Stanford University’s Digital MEdIC Charles Prober, MD, Founding Executive Director, Stanford Center for Health Education, and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Health Education, Stanford University Dr. Wuleta Lemma, Honorary Associate Professor, Director Centre for Global Digital Health and AI, Wollo University, Ethiopia; CEO Lalibela Global-USA-Ethiopia
16:30 – 16:40	Creative Session: Spoken word poetry performance. Mumbi Macharia, Spoken Word Poet, Writer, and Self-Published Author from Nairobi, Kenya
16:40 – 18:10	Thematic Sessions: Structural enablers for—and barriers to—successful integration of digital health and in-person services. 16:40 – 17:25 Session 1: Digital Health: Challenges to scaling, and overcoming these through collaboration The challenges in the introduction of digital health technologies (e.g., Lack of policy coherence, integrated funding, cost of data, internet access, smartphone availability, digital literacy). Speakers: Bakari Hardi Nyari, Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, Department of Social Affairs, African Union. Dr. Joanne Peter, Director, Social Innovation, Global Community Impact, Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Rajeev Rao Eashwari, Director eHealth, Gauteng Department of Health, South Africa 17:25 – 18:10 Session 2: Meaningful Community Engagement in Digital Health This session will highlight the importance of community involvement in the successful design and implementation of digital health technology. Speakers: Dr. George Matete, Uganda Country Director, BRAC (Uganda) Julius D. W. Mbeya, Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance Emily Owino, Project Officer, mothers2mothers (Kenya)
18:10 – 18:25	Closing & Vote of Thanks Session format: 15 minutes

For more information, please contact Bob Munyati, Policy Manager, on [email protected]

Shapers Council

Dr. George Owuor Matete – BRAC Uganda

Dr. George Owuor Matete has over 25 years of professional experience in the development sector, managing large-scale country programmes in the horn of Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia. As Country Director, Dr. Matete provides overall strategic leadership and management of the BRAC Uganda country health programme, the quality implementation of the Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) Project, and the use of digital tools to extend community primary health services delivery, building a sustainable health delivery operation within the country. Dr. Matete holds a PhD in Veterinary Public Health and a Master of Science degree in Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology from the University of Nairobi.

Dr. Joanne Peter – Johnson & Johnson

Dr. Joanne Peter is a Director of Social Innovation for Johnson & Johnson’s Global Community Impact team. Her work focuses on supporting and championing primary care nurses, midwives and community health workers – and their connection to communities – through the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation. Joanne specializes in the use of health technology in low-resource settings. She has provided philanthropic support and strategic input to a portfolio of mobile health programs over the last decade, including MomConnect and mMitra– mobile messaging services that have reached over 10 million mothers and babies with vital information on health, nutrition and early childhood development. Joanne trained in Medicine and International Development at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University respectively. She has spent her career in strategic philanthropy, including time with Google.org, the UN Foundation and DGMT working on a range of health, technology, and innovation programmes.

Carl Björkman – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Carl is Head of Nordics at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he manages the Foundation's relationships with Nordic governments, as well as a portfolio of the foundation's grants in the region to support a more informed and constructive public debate on international development, global health and aid. He was previously attached to the World Economic Forum, where he was Director and Head of International Organisations and Government Affairs. Prior to that he worked for the European Commission, Bloomberg, Waterberry Development Organisation and the United Nations. Carl has an MA in International Relations and a postgraduate MLitt in Management, Economics and Politics from the University of St. Andrews as well as an Executive Master in Global Leadership from INSEAD, Columbia University, London Business School and Wharton. He serves on the board and advisory committees of several non-profit organisations including Social Credits, garagErasmus, Re-Define and the Centro Piemontese Studi Africani (Centre for African Studies).

Dr. Kathrin Schmitz – mothers2mothers

A Medical Doctor with an MBA, Kathrin has extensive clinical, research, and technical expertise in programme design and implementation. Early in her career, she specialised in paediatric clinical practice and research, and oversaw the accreditation of informal Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres across South Africa. Since joining m2m in 2005, Kathrin has played a leading role in the organisation’s programmatic and geographical expansion. In her current role, she leads programme innovation aligned with organisational strategic objectives, and drives the conceptualisation and design, implementation and scale-up of m2m’s rapidly expanding portfolio of programmes, while overseeing technical quality.

Jyoti Shankar Tewari – UNFPA

Shankar Tewari is a ‘Practice Leader’ with over twenty years of experience in policy analysis and evidence-based population, health, nutrition, water, and sanitation advocacy and policy formulation, and in translating policies into practice. Currently, he works as the ‘Coordinator of the Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) team’ and as the ‘Regional Health Systems Strengthening Adviser’ at UNFPA, East and Southern Africa regional office. Prior to UNFPA, he worked for DFID/UKaid and USAID as Senior Health and Human Development Advisors in Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia and India. His interest lies in how to use sector support mechanisms and political-economy levers to facilitate and sustain reforms. He has basic trainings in demography, statistics, epidemiology, health systems, health financing, monitoring and evaluation.