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Breakthrough Summit West
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.
ICT4D: Learning Carousel, Digital Development in Ghana
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).
Harnessing Tech and Social Media to Educate and Save Lives | December 9, 2020
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).
Leveraging Technology to Scale Outcomes in Global Health | July 1, 2021
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.
World Health Organization (WHO) Delegation Briefing on Digital Health | May 11, 2022
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
Innovations in Digitizing Distribution of Health Products: Current Trends in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya & Uganda | July 20, 2022
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.
YTH Live Global 2022: Despair and Hope | The Global Mental Health Crisis | October 12, 2022
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.
2023 Haas Healthcare Conference
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.
76th World Health Assembly | Alliance Members Go to Geneva
“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.
PSI: Addressing Mis- and Disinformation in Global Health: A Conversation for Collective Action Across Digital Media
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.
PATH: An Investment in Digital Health is an Investment in UHC: Prioritising Action to Support Digital Health Transformation
Join Alliance member PATH on May 23, 8:30am – 10:30am CEST, along with Transform Health, Digital Connected Care Coalition (DCCC), Geneva Digital Health Hub, OECD, UHC2030, and YET4H for an in-person discussion during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva on prioritizing investment in digital health transformation to accelerate Universal Health Coverage (UHC) progress.
Pathfinder International @ WHA76: Digital Health Solutions to Bolster Health System Resilience
Join Alliance member Pathfinder International, along with What to Expect Project and Last Mile Health during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland for a roundtable discussion focused on digital health as a tool for better health emergency preparedness. Experts in digital health will delve into how digital health solutions offer opportunities for improving the health of our most vulnerable populations and identify measures for ensuring equitable use of digital health technologies.
The Future of Aging: Transatlantic Perspectives on Digital Health Tech
Join Alliance member UC Berkeley and the German Center for Research and Innovation San Francisco at a conversation about how the United States and Germany collaborate more to foster digital health innovations, particularly for aging populations.
AI in SBC: the present and future potential
Join Springboard for the second session of their two part webinar exploring how social and behavior change (SBC) programs can use digital technology to gain insight to inform program design and implementation. This session will explore how AI is changing the digital landscape, as well as the opportunities and challenges with AI adoption in SBC. This includes how it powers big data, the ethical considerations and future potential. Speakers include Alliance member Viamo’s Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Lukas Borkowski, and the CEO and Founder of Quilt.AI, Anurag Banerjee.
Impact and Inclusion in Ethiopia: Using Biometrics to Verify Healthcare Delivery
Join Simprints and the Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia as they discuss how health service impact is being verified by scanning patient fingerprints at the last mile. During this webinar, Simprints will explore how biometric solutions are helping to verify exactly who is being reached and how the national health system is becoming more inclusive through digitization.
Interactive Voice Response for Remote Health Worker Training
Join Population Services International and Viamo for their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) for Remote Health Worker Training event. The event will explore how learnings from a COVID-19 IVR training program for Community Health Volunteers in Kenya can inform future digital health programming – for the better.