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| Location: | Virtual and in-person in Nairobi, Kenya, at the JW Marriott |
| Hosts: | Global Digital Health Network and TechChange
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The Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF) is the leading networking and relationship-building opportunity to connect government stakeholders, digital health developers, researchers, donors, implementers, and field experts in public health and technology from across the globe.
IntraHealth's Digital Health team is participating and will present our digital health solutions to support the health workforce and health organizations. Learn more about our Digital Health work.
Our Participation
Lightning Talks
Full-Stack Data Science in Global Digital Health: How to Organize Your Teams for Impact
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(12:00pm - 01:00pm EST)
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| More Information: | How can global digital health harness data science principles and practices to push the envelope and make a real impact on health outcomes? This virtual lightning talk will highlight how IntraHealth has built a data science team as a service to the organization; data science competencies that are required to achieve results; and how data science roles and responsibilities complement traditional programs, technical, and strategic information roles.
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| Location: | Online
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| Presenter(s): | Jacodia Fransman and Amy Finnegan
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Fighting Malaria with Digital Health Workforce Planning: The Case of Digitalizing Human Resources Management and Development (HRM&D) in Kenya
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(12:00pm - 01:00pm EST)
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| More Information: | Health worker absenteeism impacts treatment of malaria, and delays in treatment can lead to deadly consequences. Human resources management and development strengthening interventions using digital tools like iHRIS, IntraHealth's open source human resources information system, can enable data-driven decision-making to plan and budget for health workers and dynamically redistribute them. IntraHealth staff will present a new study quantifying the potential impact of reduced absenteeism on malaria cases and deaths averted among children in Kenya.
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| Location: | Online
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| Presenter(s): | Amy Finnegan
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Panel Discussions
Measuring the Health Impact and Cost for Digital Solutions: Lessons Learned from Four Studies
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(01:00pm - 02:00pm EST)
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| More Information: | This virtual session aims to equip digital health implementers and others with practical examples on measuring the benefits and costs of their solutions drawing from a special collection of papers organized by Digital Square in Oxford Open Digital Health. Panel participants will share lessons learned from their analyses which span understanding health worker absenteeism in malaria; the impact of short message service (SMS) messaging on antiretroviral therapy (ART) retention; costs associated with developing, deploying, and operating a national digitalized cancer registry; and the effects of digital health on business and medicine practices.
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| Location: | Online
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| Presenter(s): | Amy Finnegan
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Participants
Amy Finnegan
Amy Finnegan
Deputy Director, Data Science, IntraHealth International
Loise Kwirica
Loise Kwirica
Regional Systems Analyst, IntraHealth International
Jacodia Fransman
Jacodia Fransman
Data Scientist, IntraHealth International