Member Spotlights
Our members are doing incredible, impactful work, and we want to help provide a platform to share it across our multi-sectoral community—fostering new connections and opportunities for collaboration.
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MARCH MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Tiba Foundation
Motorcycle Taxis Are Transforming Women’s Health
In rural Kenya, a lack of safe transportation has long kept women from reaching hospitals for prenatal visits, cancer screenings, and family planning. Tiba Foundation‘s Boda Girls program is changing that by training women as professional motorcycle taxi drivers and community health advocates who provide free rides to local health facilities. During its pilot phase, Boda Girls facilitated a 67% increase in hospital births, a 110% rise in maternal clinic attendance, and a doubling of family planning and cancer screening rates. Also, Tiba Foundation Executive Director Diane Dodge was recently named the 2026 recipient of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health.
Changemaker Project
Public Health Institute Center for Wellness and Nutrition
The Changemaker Project is a randomized control trial launched in February 2024 co-led by the Karolinska Institute, and the University of Bonn. Implemented in urban areas of Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania, including informal settlements, the project works with school-going adolescents to prevent noncommunicable diseases while improving nutrition knowledge and health outcomes. The initiative combines education and food production interventions with individualized and guided health counseling. Additionally with the focus on classroom-based lessons on healthy environmentally.
Mma Wa Nnete (Real Mother)
HBGI
Mma wa Nnete (real mother) is a promotive maternal mental health program in South Africa that is community-led, scalable and integrated into the local health system. It is also contracted on outcomes, giving the program the flexibility to respond to the needs of mothers. The paid outcomes have been agreed with input from the mothers themselves. They ensure mothers’ mental health is supported during their pregnancy and post-natal journey, and that mothers are best set up to both bond with their baby and support their baby’s physical health. HBGI is looking to scale this from 2,000 to 6,000 mothers.
ALIMUS - We are Feeding!
Public Health Institute Center for Wellness and Nutrition
In two climatically distinct regions—North-Western Burkina Faso and South-Eastern Kenya—we co-designed integrated agro-biodiversification and nutrition programs to address the visible impacts of climate change on food quantity and quality, which disproportionately affect young children (under five). The project’s concrete nutrition and health outcomes, along with its budget impact analysis, will inform national discussions on climate change adaptation strategies. The ALIMUS trial has contributed to the scarce literature on the evaluation of climate change adaptation projects in sub-Saharan Africa– named one of 7 trials to watch by Nature Medicine. This project is led by the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
HealthAI Global Governance Forum 2025
HealthAI – the Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health
The HealthAI Global Governance Forum (HealthAI GGF) is an annual flagship event held on December 2, 2025 in Nairobi that brings together global actors at the forefront of health, responsible AI, and governance. The HealthAI GGF is designed for inclusive participation and offers a unique platform for exchanging knowledge, shaping global policy, and promoting equity in AI for health. By spotlighting regulatory innovation, advancing thought leadership, and fostering international collaboration, the Forum aims to become the definitive global gathering on AI governance in health.