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MAM*AI, our AI-enabled Medical Chatbot for Midwives in #Zanzibar has been selected as part of the first cohort for EPFL Tech4Dev 📲 The partnership will explore the potential of co-designing an AI-powered, open-source medical chatbot to support midwives. The innovation will equip midwives with real-time information and guidance, improving care for mothers and newborns in Zanzibar and with the potential of saving lives. Excited for this new collaboration with academia and the EPFL Machine Learning and Optimization Lab and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute 🙌🏾

🥁 We are so excited to get to know our 2024 Marc Mitchell Award winners better! Get to know the second winner this year, Dr. Joannie 👇🏾

🌍 Growing up in rural Rwanda, hours away from the nearest hospital, @Joie Sophia UMUHOZA experienced the challenges women and girls face in accessing medical care, and the severe impact this can have on their physical and mental health. But instead of being discouraged, Joie turned to digital health, seeing the transformative potential it holds for her community and others like it. 💻💡 Thanks to support from TechChange partner D-tree, Joie is now headed to the 2024 Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi! She will also receive a year of professional mentorship through the Global Digital Health Network. 🎉 Learn more about Joie's inspiring journey and the 2024 Marc Mitchell Leadership & Innovation Award here: https://lnkd.in/eUYwKPq2 #GDHF2024 #MarcMitchellAward #Dtree

Celebrating Leadership and Innovation in Digital Health 👩🏾⚕️ 📲 D-tree and the Global Digital Health Network are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Marc Mitchell Award for Leadership and Innovation: ✨ Joie Sophia UMUHOZA from Rwanda, Founder of ECO-MAMA ✨ Dr Joannie Marlene BEWA MD, PhD from Benin, Founder and CEO of DOTOH Health The ECO-MAMA platform addresses the growing mental health challenges faced by women affected by climate change in Rwanda. Through AI-driven assessments and telepsychiatry, she is making a difference for women in underserved communities. DOTOH Health is breaking new ground as Benin’s first teleconsultation platform, delivering primary care and sexual and reproductive health services to over 500 people in underserved areas. The Marc Mitchell Award, named after D-tree’s founder, honors innovators driving change in healthcare with digital solutions. We're so excited to support this year's winners as they continue to innovate and serve the people who need it the most. Read more about their work 👉 https://lnkd.in/dunnzEz9

Our colleague Patrick Katandula Mukupa was pleased to join the Training of Trainers for the Community Health Information Platform (CHIP) in #Zambia, organized by PATH and the Ministry of Health 👨🏾⚕️ CHIP is a potential game-changer for community health workers in the country, helping them deliver better health services and use data to drive decisions. The training was a great opportunity to learn how digital tools like this can improve health systems. D-tree's role in the project is to evaluate how CHIP supports community health workers in their day-to-day jobs and provide feedback that can strengthen the platform 📲

Join us as Riccardo Lampariello and Hannah McCarrick Mikidadi take part in an exciting symposium on Women and Gender in Health! They'll be sharing innovative digital solutions for improving maternal and child health in Tanzania and Zanzibar👩🏾⚕️🤰🏾 Don't miss out — mark your calendars and sign up below ⬇

Make sure to register for this webinar tomorrow where Tracey Li will be joining to share the uses of AI-based tools in development 👇🏾

Curious to find out more about how we work in #Tanzania to achieve our vision of a world where everyone, no matter where, have access to the healthcare they need to live longer, healthier lives? Central to our work in Tanzania are: 🤝 Partnerships with the Government, non-state actors and communities 🖇 Connecting people and care 🔢 Data for better decisions Find out more below and get in touch if you are interested in partnering with us to improve healthcare for all!

In Data Governance, Good Policies aren't enough. Our Senior Data Lead, Tracey Li, has written a really insightful article about the challenge of moving from policy to action in data governance. She's raising three key areas of action to realize policies: 🔸 Creating context-specific policies 🔸 Focusing on training and capacity development  🔸 Supporting knowledge sharing and peer exchange Dive deeper into this topic ⬇

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Carolyne Faith, CHW Engagement Manager at the Community Health Impact Coalition, at our #Zanzibar office. While Carolyne was in town for the Tanzania Health Summit, we used the opportunity to introduce her to a group of dedicated community health workers from the Jamii ni Afya Program. These community health workers provide essential maternal, newborn, and child health services across Zanzibar. Many of them are among the first 60 participants to complete the Community Health Impact Coalition's online advocacy training for CHWs, which is now being tested in Swahili. We love seeing this initiative arming Zanzibar's community health workforce to advocate for improved community health! ✊🏾