Wired for impact:

digital health at
scale in low- and
middle-income
countries
June 1 - 2, 2016

Novartis Foundation, 04/16

Ghana Dialogue

This workshop is one in a series of dialogues spearheaded by the Novartis

Foundation on global health issues. The forthcoming dialogue will be
hosted together with the Ministry of Health Ghana and the Ghana Health
Service on digital health. The expert dialogue will draw from experience
and best practice implementing digital health components of health
programming in Ghana and across the African region with the following
goals:

S
 howcase the strength of local ownership, for example Ghana, in driving
digital health programs at scale

L
 earn from successful chronic disease management programs, which
have a digital health component across the African region

A
 ssess the necessary elements to integrate digital health tools and
technologies as enablers in successful health interventions at scale

Venue

Mvenpick Ambassador Hotel

PMB CT 343, Cantonments Ridge
Accra
Ghana

Ghana Dialogue June 1 - 2, 2016 Join the global health

conversation:
Lunch and coffee will be served as part of
the event. Entrance is free, but registration @NovartisFDN
is limited. Please register by submitting the #Wired4Impact
form on www.novartisfoundation.org/events
Program

1 June The digital health promise

12:00 Lunch and registration

13:00 Introduction

13:10 Opening: Digital solutions for better health in Ghana

Dr. Afisah Zakariah, Acting Chief Director, Ministry of Health Ghana
Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, Director, Ghana Health Service

13:30 Opening: The Novartis Foundation and digital health on the ground
Dr. Ann Aerts, Head Novartis Foundation

13:40 The journey to scale: from digital health pilots to sustainable impact
in low- and middle-income countries
Dr. Alain Labrique, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health

14:00 Innovation for population health: role of national eHealth strategies

and government leadership
TBC

14:20 Coffee break

15:00 Our future, our wellbeing: frontiers in technology for health impact
TBC

15:20 Ring, ring, how can I help? Strengthening provider capacity and
extending patient reach through the telemedicine project in Ghana
Dr. John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Director, Policy, Planning,
Monitoring and Evaluation (PPME) Division, Ghana Health Service

15:40 Facilitated panel discussion with speakers and Joseph Adomako,

Senior Telemedicine Project Manager

16:30 Networking coffee

Program

2 June Learning from digital health programs across Africa

09:30 Introduction
TBC

09:40 Chronic Care in the Context of Africas Multiple Health Challenges

Dr. Peter Lamptey, Professor of Non-Communicable Diseases,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and President
Emeritus, FHI360

Digital health case studies

10.10 1. Health Wallet Cees Hesp, mHealth Research Labs,

PharmAccess Foundation

10:30 2. eTIQH Pamela Riley, Principal Associate, International Health

Division, Abt Associates

10:50 Coffee break

11:20 3. CommCare Vice President of Strategy, Dimagi, Inc.

11:40 4. WelTel

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Facilitated panel discussion with speakers

15.00 Closing

15.30 Networking coffee