Join The Global Digital Health Network for the 2024 Global Digital Health Forum hybrid convening, with the primary in-person conference taking place in Nairobi, Kenya from December 4-6, 2024. GDHF is the 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.
Join STAT and Alliance member Merck for the STAT Summit from October 16-17, 2024. This hybrid event takes place in-person in Boston and will cover some of the biggest challenges faced by those who want to move advances out of the lab and into the world. This summit provides opportunities for discussion about drug development and technology invention, as well as dealing with regulators, courting investors, and pricing and selling products.
Join Alliance member PSI for a webinar series that presents insights from the Integrate Project, which focuses on integrating voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) into government structures and financing mechanisms, strengthening public sector capacity, and supporting the long-term sustainability of Zimbabwe’s VMMC program. This webinar will provide insights on decentralizing, differentiating and integration service delivery approaches.
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The Africa Digital Health Summit 2024 will bring together key players in the health sector, and provide a platform for innovators, academics, entrepreneurs, researchers, regulators, policymakers and development partners to share knowledge and experience in digital health across Africa under the theme of Digital Transformation of Health Systems: What, Why, and How?
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STAT’s 2024 Breakthrough Summit West will provide opportunities to engage in conversation about what the next two decades will bring in medicine. The summit will allow attendees to join in on high-level, interactive sessions that will peer into the mists, looking at GLP-1 drugs for psychiatry, a new age of individualized gene editing, and the potential of artificial intelligence to reduce the failure rate of inventing new medicines.
The ICT4D Conference explores how Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and data innovations are making a measurable difference in millions of peoples’ lives and increasing the impact of humanitarian relief, development, and conservation programs. The conference works to advance global knowledge exchange and build capacity on ICT4D and digital development to drive more impactful use of technology for good by facilitating knowledge exchange on best practices and innovations, creating inclusive spaces for cross-sectoral learning and capacity-building, and fostering partnerships in ICT4D among local and international actors (NGOs, governments, private sector organizations, research institutions, and funders).
A panel hosted by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance at the Global Digital Health Forum in which experts discuss the efforts of tech, social media and digital and public health to educate, inform and keep people safe. Alliance board members Praveen Raja (Facebook) and Hema Budaraju (Google) joined Andy Pattison (WHO), Heidi Larson (Vaccine Confidence Project) and Rachel Sibande (Digital Impact Alliance, UN Foundation) on the panel moderated by Ben Plumley (A Shot in the Arm podcast).
Bay Area Global Health Alliance and Resonance co-hosted a webinar featuring Alliance members Zenysis Technologies and Mastercard. This webinar is part of Resonance’s Inclusive Innovation Exchange. We had a discussion about the importance of digital infrastructure, the role of collaboration to strengthen these systems and empower digital innovation, and the future of global digital health.
On May 11, Dr. Garrett Mehl, Head Digital Health Technology Unit, and Andy Pattison, Team Lead Digital Channels and head of the WHO Tech Task Force, were joined by Dr. John Grove, Director, Quality Assurance of Norms and Standards, for this briefing from the WHO, co-hosted by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences
The Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Salient Advisory, and Alliance member Population Services International examined the findings of Salient’s recently released market intelligence report on commercially-driven innovations in health care supply chains in Africa. The report results from a longitudinal study of more than 80 digital health innovators in African health technology ecosystems. Findings from innovating early-stage start-ups to established companies like mPharma inform the report, which highlights key trends shaping the growth and impact of digitized distribution in health across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
At YTH Live Global, an annual event hosted by ETR, the Alliance organized a panel discussion exploring the challenges and opportunities of addressing the global youth mental health crisis. Experts from Google, Hopelab, and UCSF discussed fostering community on tech platforms and collaborating to create effective digital interventions for youth mental health. Learn more.
Now in its 16th year, Alliance member UC Berkeley’s Haas Healthcare Conference brings together over 400 corporate leaders, graduate students, digital health entrepreneurs, life science professionals, and public health champions to explore market and sector trends. After the last three years in which the unprecedented effects of COVID have reshaped the healthcare system, the conference welcome leaders from across the industry to discuss how to build the future of healthcare from this new foundation.
“This year’s World Health Assembly represents a pivotal moment to advance policy reforms to deliver a more fit-for-purpose, equitable research and development (R&D) ecosystem,” stated the Global Health Technologies Coalition. To accelerate global health innovation and deliver health for all, they recommend WHO member states “take collective action now to establish more inclusive, globally distributed R&D systems and approaches.” Other Alliance members also attending WHA76 include Baraka Impact Finance, Cross-Border Impact Ventures, Gilead Sciences, Global Health Council, Google, Living Goods, Meta, PATH, Pathfinder International, Pfizer, PSI, ReSurge International, and Viamo.
Join Alliance member PSI, the Yale Institute for Global Health, and the UK Mission in Geneva, United Nations on May 20, 6:00pm – 8:00pm CEST for an in-person panel discussion at the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The discussion will focus on social and behavior change communication for pandemic preparedness and future infodemic management in the context of digital media platforms.