Connecting for innovation and impact for all in global health
Convened by Vital Strategies under the PILLARs initiative, this 60-minute exchange on August 12 at 9:00AM ET / 6:00AM PT will bring together a small group of country representatives, regional institutions, and technical partners to explore one shared question: How are countries designing and implementing trusted and inclusive digital IDs that are rooted in CRVS systems and advance public health goals?
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On July 14, 2026, the MERL Tech Initiative’s Africa AI Learning Group at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) will convene a special World Café working session. Participants will work in small groups with peers from across the continent, debating, co-creating, and stress-testing ideas together. The session centers on values and principles: what should a Made in Africa AI in MERL framework actually stand for, and what competencies, i.e technical, ethical, governance-related, and contextual, do evaluators need to put those commitments into practice?
Join University of Global Health Equity on June 18 for Achieving Scale – Regionally, as part of its Evidence of Practice Webinar Series. Exploring lessons from Africa and Latin America, the webinar will examine how health innovations move beyond national boundaries to achieve regional scale.
The Insights Learning Forum (ILF) 2026 is eHealth Africa’s flagship convening platform, bringing together government leaders, development partners, innovators, investors, researchers, healthcare professionals, private sector actors, and ecosystem builders shaping the future of health systems transformation across Africa. As digital transformation accelerates across the continent, ILF 2026 will focus on the urgent need for stronger collaboration, sustainable financing, interoperable systems, inclusive innovation, and coordinated action capable of moving Africa from fragmented pilots to scalable impact. Hosted in strategic partnership with key continental stakeholders, ILF 2026 will convene high-level conversations, practical learning exchanges, investment dialogues, and cross-sector partnerships designed to strengthen resilient and people-centered systems across health and development sectors.
MedEdAfrica 2026 is a pan-African platform for collaboration, innovation, and leadership in health professions education. Hosted by the Ministry of Health – Ethiopia, in partnership with the Consortium of Medical Schools in Africa (COMS-A) in which Alliance member UGHE is the secretariat, the conference brings together medical educators, academic leaders, health professionals, students, policymakers, and partners from across Africa and beyond. Secure your place today to connect with peers, explore practical innovations in medical education, and contribute to African-led solutions that strengthen health workforce development.
On April 30, the Alliance convened leaders from Amp Health and Google Research Africa for a Chatham House Rules session moderated by eHealth Africa that explored what it takes to build country-led ecosystems that can scale global health innovation. The conversation moved beyond broad calls for “country ownership” to examine what this actually requires in practice: trust, co-creation, embedded support, local governance, and a willingness by external partners to work through existing systems rather than around them.
Join the Bay Area Global Health Alliance for a virtual convening on April 30, 2026, from 8:00–9:00am PT on “Building Country-led Ecosystems to Scale Global Health Innovation.” This discussion brings together leaders from Google Research Africa and Amp Health, moderated by eHealth Africa, to examine how locally rooted innovation ecosystems are being built — and what it takes to make them last.
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The Africa HealthTech Summit (AHTSx) Canada 2026 will take place June 9–10, 2026 in Toronto. The summit will bring together leaders from across the health ecosystem—including innovators, policymakers, investors, clinicians, and researchers—to explore the future of connected care, digital health innovation, and partnerships for resilient health systems. The two-day convening will feature policy dialogues, innovation showcases, and collaboration opportunities connecting Africa, Canada, and the global health community.
Join Africa Health Business in Nairobi on April 21-23, 2026, which will convene health sector leaders from across the continent for a crucial dialogue on how strategic health investments directly fuel economic development, strengthen communities, and build resilient systems capable of withstanding future challenges.
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For the third consecutive year, the Alliance convened a panel at the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM) in San Francisco, followed by an Alliance side meeting held at Accenture’s San Francisco Innovation Hub. This year’s panel brought together leaders from Gilead Sciences, U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Nivi, Inc., reach52, and Accenture to explore how pharmaceutical partnerships, development finance, and patient platforms are creating investable infrastructure in high-growth markets across Asia and Africa. The panel underscored that the most promising long-term opportunities in emerging markets lie not just in individual products, but in the systems and partnerships that connect them to patients.
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This high-impact session, co-sponsored by eHealth Africa, Reach Digital Health, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and PSI, 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.
The Alliance will be attending the Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF) from December 3-5, 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. GDHF is a leading global public health industry networking and relationship-building opportunity for technology vendors, donors, researchers, government representatives, and implementing organizations working in low- and middle-income countries. This global conference offers another rich networking opportunity, thanks to the many Alliance members attending. A large contingent will also be driving the conversation by presenting and hosting events.
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. At the Global Digital Health Forum, this plenary 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.
Building off the Global Digital Health Forum track’s 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. This breakout session will be moderated by Richa Tiwari, Program Lead, Health AI, Google Research.
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