Why Technology Isn’t Always the Answer in Global Health
We were so excited by the flashiness of the tools, we forgot our goal—to lower hypertension in Africa.
Avni Varia is a pharmacist who worked in the US and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. She has a strong interest in global health solutions.
Avni was a UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellow in 2018 and is now a digital health researcher at IntraHealth International.
We were so excited by the flashiness of the tools, we forgot our goal—to lower hypertension in Africa.
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