• MSD | Accenture: Driving Breakthrough Innovations in Maternal Health with Digital Tools, Data, and Private Sector Collaboration [11:20am-12:05pm]
  • Three years ago, MSD for Mothers (MfM) announced a bold new $25M initiative, Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth, that set out to pick up the pace in saving women’s lives and achieve Sustainable Development Goals targets to reduce maternal mortality. This session aims to spotlight the real-world impact and candid lessons learned of private sector digital solutions to advance quality maternal health across India, Nigeria, Kenya and Sierra Leone.
• UNFPA: The Last Mile First: Climate-Resilient Digital Health for Women and Girls in Crisis Zones [5:15-5:20pm] | Virtual
  • As the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA is pioneering a suite of climate-resilient digital health interventions designed to ensure the continuity of life-saving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services in the most challenging humanitarian contexts. This topic is critical to the digital health landscape as it moves beyond proof-of-concept to address the urgent, intersecting demands of climate action, humanitarian response, and gender equality.
• UNICEF: Leveraging Routine Health Data for Climate Action: A DHIS2 Innovation in Heat-Health Monitoring [5:45-5:50pm] | Virtual
  • Leveraging routine clinical data captured through DHIS2’s Individual Event Capture module—standardized using ICD-10 codes (notably L55 Sunburn, T67 for heatstroke and sunstroke) enables comprehensive monitoring and analysis of heat-related illnesses across government healthcare facilities.
• Vital Strategies: Using AI to Analyze Harmful Tobacco and Alcohol Marketing Targeting Youth and Women Across Digital Platforms [6-8pm]
  • The session will highlight practical applications of the service and share lessons from local partners who have adapted it to meet their needs. Participants will learn how to use AI-assisted monitoring to uncover harmful marketing trends, support more innovative public health interventions, and design culturally relevant counter-messaging.

December 4, 2025

• Medic: Creating product documentation that works: How Medic ensures every link clicks [6:30-6:35am] | Virtual
  • During this lightning talk, Medic will share best practices for improving the user experience and making every link a successful click, including writing for the reader by building processes to flag errors, using automated audits through silent tests that run weekly, and implementing in-situ alerts that deliver notifications to authors where they already work.
• Advancing Health Online (AHO): Harnessing Digital Innovation to Build Vaccine Confidence in LMICs [7-8am]
  • This session will bring together researchers, implementers, and global health leaders to explore how digital tools—such as social media, chatbots, and Generative AI—can strengthen vaccine confidence and improve health behaviors in low- and middle-income countries. The discussion will feature grantees from AHO’s Vaccine Confidence Fund (VCF) and VaxSocial initiatives, alongside representatives from Gavi and other key partners. These panelists will share evidence and insights on how digital innovation and behavioral science can help reduce vaccine hesitancy and promote positive health behaviors at scale.
• Vital Strategies: Foundations and Futures: Reimagining Public Health Intelligence in the AI Era [7:30-9am]
  • This breakfast session will explore how countries can build stronger, more intelligent health systems by integrating AI based on sound, inclusive, and locally relevant data. Participants will hear real-world examples, join focused discussions, and take part in a collaborative exercise on how to apply AI to public health challenges, including noncommunicable diseases.
• Google | Endless Network: The Full-STAC Future: Building the Open Digital Health Ecosystem [9:55-10:40am]
  • This panel will delve into the integrated approach to building digital public infrastructure for health. Anchored in the “Full-STAC” principles of Standards, Technologies, Architectures, Content, and Community, this track will explore how open, interoperable systems can drive more equitable, efficient, and people-centered care, primed to harness the full potential of AI.
• Reach Digital Health | Population Council’s GIRL Center | Girl Effect: The (Mostly) Black Box of Adolescent Digital Tech Demand: Prioritizing Equity, Evidence, and Engagement [11:15am-12:15pm]
  • Panelists will dissect the varied levels of digital access and engagement among adolescents, drawing on disaggregated data and community-driven insights to reveal persistent inequities not just between rural and urban youth, but also within groups (e.g., girls vs. boys, married vs. unmarried, in-school vs. out-of-school). They will speak from their differing perspectives regarding evidence gaps and learning opportunities.
• Reach Digital Health: Reimagining Reproductive/Maternal Health Across Africa: Integrating Digital Innovation, Equity, and Systems Thinking for Impact [12:25-1:25pm]
  • This panel session will showcase how leading African organizations are using digital health solutions, behavioural science, and public-private partnerships to transform maternal health outcomes. The session will highlight real-world examples where community engagement and multisectoral partnerships are transforming how maternal health services are delivered and accessed, especially in under-resourced settings.
• PATH: Bridging the Data Gap: Co-Creating Localized LLM Question-Answering Datasets With Clinicians and Community Health Workers [4:15-5:15pm]
  • This 60-minute interactive workshop shares lessons and tools from a collaborative effort to address this gap through the creation of open, locally relevant datasets consisting of local languages, medical terminology grounded in national protocols, and community knowledge.
• Google: Insights and Learnings from Implementation of Digital Health and AI in Global Health [4:15-5:15pm]
  • Building off the theme of spotlighting the Full-STAC approach and harnessing the potential for AI in global health, this breakout session will feature real world examples and case studies from innovators who have built solutions, leveraging the full-STAC approach and AI. Geared towards developers and digital architects, this interactive session is aimed at bringing real world learnings and insights gained from real world implementations.
• FHI 360: Casting a Wider Net: Digital Tools for Health, Economic, and Climate Resilience in Senegal [5:45-5:50pm] | Virtual
  • The Wireless Solutions for Fisheries in Senegal (WISE) project, a multi-stakeholder collaboration, addresses this climate-health nexus through an integrated digital platform. The WISE mobile application builds resilience by providing a suite of functionalities. These include real-time weather forecasts to improve safety at sea, GPS navigation, an SOS feature for emergencies, and daily market price information to stabilize incomes.

December 5, 2025

• eHealth Africa | Reach Digital Health | Bay Area Global Health Alliance | PSI: Digital Interfaces to Spur Behaviour Change in Health Among Adolescents in Kenya and Beyond [7:00-8:30am]
  • Young Africans are at the forefront of digital innovation, increasingly engaging with AI, conversational agents, and other emerging technologies. Kenya stands out as a continental leader in digital adoption and innovation with 76% of the population actively using digital payments and over 13 million active social media users. Recognizing and inspired by these opportunities, the Avatar Consortium was launched in 2025 led by eHealth Africa and its technology and research partners Reach Digital Health, AIfluence, Usiku Games, Shujazz, Black Rhino VR, BellaNaija, PSI, and the Population Council. The consortium aims to advance the equitable utilization of digital interfaces for health behavior change and referral to services among underserved Kenyan young people. This high-impact session will feature a youth-led section amplifying the voices and insights from young people themselves, a live product demonstration from consortium partners and a fireside chat with sector leaders. The breakfast salon is designed to spark momentum, deepen collaboration, and drive forward a shared agenda for digital health innovation that centers youth, Africa’s most powerful asset for the future.
• Reach Digital Health: The Role of Nationally Scaled Digital Services in Delivering Emergency Messaging [7:30-8:30am]
  • Scaling mobile-based digital services for emergency messaging to deliver timely, reliable, and customised health information during pandemics, epidemics, and disasters, enhancing risk communication and system preparedness. 
• Reach Digital Health | PSI: Amplifying Patient Voices: Integrating Digital PREMs and PROMs into Health Information Exchanges [8:30-9:30am]
  •  This session will take the form of a panel discussion, highlighting challenges, successes, and innovations in the digital collection and use of PREMs/PROMs data. Panelists, representing governments, NGOs, and digital health innovators, will share their experiences and the value of integrating patient voices into national digital ecosystems and triangulating this data with other health data sources. Attendees will leave with actionable insights, including best practices for designing inclusive, privacy-conscious, and interoperable digital PREM/PROM systems as well as awareness of an evolving global learning agenda to inform future work and development.
• Transform Health: Health Data Governance: Advancing a Continental Framework for Africa [8:30-9:30am]
  • The session will present progress on the Continental Health Data Governance Framework and showcase government and regional commitments. Participants will explore how the framework can be adopted at the national level, build support for AU Summit endorsement, and align with global initiatives to drive a secure, interoperable, and trusted health data ecosystem worldwide.
• Vital Strategies: Leveraging Digital Health Data Systems to Transform Response to Gender-Based Violence [9:40-10:40am]
  • This panel presents innovative digital interventions designed to strengthen government responses to gender-based violence (GBV) through data-driven strategies. Representatives from Mozambique, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and South Africa will share experiences with digital solutions that are transforming how systems identify, document, and respond to GBV.
• UNICEF: Integrated Digitization of Health Campaigns: Building Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems Through Collaboration and Innovation [11:25am-12:25pm]
  • This panel brings together Ministry of Health representatives from Kenya and Nigeria to share operational lessons and successes, and reflections on additional investments and work needed for successful digitization efforts. The panel also shares donor perspectives on strategic investments in integrated digitization, and WHO/UNICEF experts to present on global standards and country support mechanisms.
• PATH: Pillars and Pitfalls of a Strong, Secure, and Scalable National Data Repository [11:25am-12:25pm]
  • PATH developed and piloted an adaptable NDR assessment tool through a multi-step process involving 1) conducting a global literature review and consulting digital health experts, including those actively supporting Kenya’s NDR, 2) developing a concept note synthesizing best practices and outlining key assessment domains, 3) designing domain-specific questions and building a Microsoft Excel-based tool with automated scoring and visualization dashboards, and 4) piloting the assessment tool in Kenya in collaboration with the National Aids and STI Control Program (NASCOP) and Palladium Kenya.
• JSI: Designing for Change: Building People-Centered Strategies for Sustainable Digital Transformation [2-3pm]
  • This interactive workshop introduces a human-centered, behaviorally informed Change Management Framework, designed to support sustainable digital transformation by focusing on the people, institutions, and behaviors that drive system change. Developed with country teams working in diverse settings, the framework provides a structured but flexible way to identify barriers, align incentives, and design strategies that are locally led, owned, and built to last.
• eHealth Africa: Building Climate Health Digital Ecosystem to Strengthen Health Facilities Preparedness and Response to Disruptive Climate Risks [2-3pm]
  • eHealth Africa developed the digital solution Climate Health Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CHAT) which translates the WHO’s climate vulnerability checklist into an interactive, scalable platform for assessing health facility-level resilience to climate risk. CHAT provides standardized vulnerability scores and geospatial dashboards across four key health system domains: Health Workforce, WASH, Energy, Infrastructure, Technologies, Products, and Processes.