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P R E S E N T A T I O N K I T
THE GLOBALSOUTH eHEALTHOBSERVATORYCONFERENCE
Since the turn of the new century, low and mid-income countries have been adopting new technologies massively. At the time of writing,
95% of the world’s population is covered by a mobile network used by more than seven billion accounts. The internet pen-etration rate has grown from 6% in 2000 to 43% in 2015, getting 3.2 billion people(1) online. In a context where access to health-care remains a major concern of people living in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa(2), eHealth tools that combine Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and care are of fundamental importance.
According to the WHO, digital innovation contributes towards achieving Universal Health Coverage(3). Indeed, eHealth can overcome certain barriers like cost and ac-cess, and even the lack of quality healthcare, and can also expand the range of services available. ICT make it possible to create tai-lored, sustainable, and tenable tools to im-prove healthcare in the Global South, and especially in areas where there is a shortfall of personnel and infrastructures.
Bringing eHealth stakeholders togetherEvery year in July, the Fondation Pierre Fabre holds its international Observatory Conference at its head offi ce in En Doyse, Lavaur (France). The day-long conference brings international experts and the peo-ple behind the most relevant projects to-gether, using the occasion to reward them for their hard work. People come as repre-sentatives of international organisations, government ministries, NGOs, healthcare facilities, and industry. The conference is a unique opportunity to share knowledge, expertise, and in the field experiences,
as well as to facilitate dialogue, online or in person, between players in the eHealth ecosystem and their potential partners. The day is live streamed and watched at over 15 digital Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie campuses around the world, so that students can take part in the de-bates through video-conference.
(1) Millennium Development Goals: 2015 report. UN. (2) Pew Research Center, September, 2015, “Health Care, Education Are Top Priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa” Survey of people in 9 Sub-Saharan African countries - September 2015. (3) Global diff usion of eHealth: making universal health coverage achievable. Report of the third global survey on eHealth. 2016. World Health Organization.
OBSERVATORYCONFERENCEHow ICT are transforming access to healthcare in Africa and Asia
660PEOPLE IN AFRICA WILL OWN A SMARTPHONE BY 2020, DOUBLE THE NUMBER FROM 2016.
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eHEALTH: LOCAL EXPERTISE SUPPORTING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
Scholarly societies are taking action to share experience and knowledge with a view to providing structured support for national eHealth strategies, and scaling up projects tailored to meet specific needs. But the growth of digital healthcare is also down to the work of academics, who produce contextualized knowledge bases and train the people who will deliver the healthcare of the future. The Observatory strives to promote promising projects, support training, and encourage the sharing of expertise in an eff ort to make a contribution towards the development of eHealth while taking local particularities into account.
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10:00 OPENING OF THE 2018 CONFERENCE Presentation of the Asian and African university campuses connected to the conference, members of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie network
10:10 SUPPORTING INNOVATIONS AND THEIR INTEGRATION INTO PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES
Mrs. Anne Roos-Weil, Team Task Leader, Health & Social Protection Unit, Agence Française de Développement
10:20 ROUNDTABLEThe role of international networks in strengthening stakeholders and transforming national policies
Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin, President, Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)
Dr. Richard Gakuba, Health Information Specialist, African Alliance for Digital HealthNetworks (African Alliance)
Dr. Sovann Ly, Director, Cambodian Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department
11:25 PRESENTATIONS: THE 2018 WINNERS (PART 1)Operation ASHA: Fighting tuberculosis in CambodiaGuinea Epilepsy project: Epilepsy destigmatisation, diagnosis and management in Guinea ConakryTraumalink: A community of first responders delivering aid to road-accident victims in Bangladesh
12:30 LUNCH/NETWORKING
02:30 PRESENTATIONS: THE 2018 WINNERS (PART 2)Africa Cardiac Care: Promoting access to cardiac monitoring in CameroonMoSQuIT: Malaria monitoring in IndiaBlood Safety Strengthening Programme: Blood-transfusion safety in Lesotho
03:45 REPORT AND PERSPECTIVES Amakomaya, 2017 winnerPre and postnatal follow-up in isolated villages of Nepal
Mr. Rajendra Poudel, Founder, Amakomaya
04:00 THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING Presentation of an Africanuniversity initiative
Pr. Cheick Oumar Bagayoko from the University of Bamako
Pr. Joseph Aka from the University of Abidjan
Pr. Anta Tal Dia from CheikhAnta Diop University of Dakar
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The Observatory’s data is hosted at www.odess.io. Stakeholders can submit their initiatives online, as well as compete for an Observatory award (prix de l’Observatoire). At the end of its deliberations, the expert committee of the Observatory chose 6 eHealth programmes to win an award in 2018. The winners are invited to the conference to present their initiatives and receive their awards. Here are the winning project presentations:
THE OBSERVATORY’S 2018 AWARD WINNERS
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SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AWARD WINNERS
The winning projects will receive 12 months of support from the Foundation and its partners, in the form of:• Access to a total annual fund of €100k, accessible over the course of their development according to requests seen as priorities;
• Pro bono services (mentoring, web design, equipment, communication, research, partnership development, etc.) to develop their projects;
• Participation in skills-building workshops at the Foundation’s headquarters, led by international experts.
Africa Cardiac Care – Launched by Himore
Medical, this programme provides access to cardiac
monitoring for people with chronic diseases on low
incomes in Cameroon. Patients can use a member-
ship card that grants them access to unlimited ex-
aminations. Low cost ECG are performed using the
CardioPad, created by Arthur Zang, and the ECG
Exams app uses the mobile network to send the data
to the cardiologist performing the examination and
monitoring the patient.
Qualified IT engineer and biomedical engineering researcher. In 2011, he invented the CardioPad to help remedy the shortfall of cardiologists in outlying areas of his country.
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ARTHUR ZANG
MoSQuIT – MoSQuIT provides malaria screen-
ing, diagnosis, and surveillance for isolated commu-
nities in rural India. ASHA collect health data using
the app, then lab technicians confirm the diagnos-
tics and the Indian Council of Medical Research
sends epidemiological reports to the health author-
ities. The system makes it easier to plan stocks
of drugs, implement emergency measures, and
develop appropriate public policies.
Co-Director of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in India, she has been working in public health, integrative medical IT, and traditional medicine for more than 20 years.
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TraumaLink – TraumaLink is a volunteer-based
emergency response system designed to reduce
the number of deaths and injuries on the highways.
The programme provides an emergency hotline
number as well as an interactive map with location
data. The information TraumaLink obtains is used to
automatically generate an SMS which will be sent to
an appropriate number of volunteers in the vicinity
of the incident with basic training in traumatology.
An electronic register eff ectively refers patients.
President of TraumaLink and CEO of mPower, specialising in digital solutions for healthcare in Bangladesh. He is a former researcher at Harvard University and UNDP consultant.
MRIDUL CHOWDHURY
MD, MPH, emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and North Shore Medical Center. Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and TraumaLink co-founder.
JON MOUSSALLY
Guinea Epilepsy project – Targeting a condi-
tion that is poorly understood and stigmatised in Guinea,
the programme helps people suff ering from epilepsy to ac-
cess diagnostics and treatments at Ignace Deen Hospital
in Conakry. The M-EEG solution for mobile electroenceph-
alograms enables brain scans to be taken using EasyCap
neuroheadsets connected to electrodes, and is currently be-
ing investigated in a scientific study. An open source smart-
phone app, Smartphone Brain Scanner 2 (SBS2), makes it
possible to enter, store, and analyse the data obtained.
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MD, PhD, neurologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, with a doctorate in international health.FARRAH
MATEEN
Neurologist, epileptologist, physician, and certified lecturer at the Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l’Enseignement Supérieur (CAMES). He is Head of the Neurology Department at the Ignace Deen national hospital in Conakry, Guinea.
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Operation Asha – This programme tar-
gets the poorest and most isolated commu-
nities in India and Cambodia to reach the “last
mile”. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA)
work to improve the detection, treatment, edu-
cation, and awareness of tuberculosis through
a set of three apps: eDetection facilitates
screening, eCompliance is a biometric terminal
that encourages the observance of treatments
and the fight against antibiotic resistance,
and eAlert sends the result of medical testing
to patients and authorized healthcare profes-
sionals by SMS.
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Doctor and President of Operation ASHA a TEDx speaker who has lectured widely, was selected Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum. She received the Exemplary Contribution Award from the Indian Medical Association.
SHELLY BATRA
Strategy and management expert. Co-founder and manager of Operation Asha, the social enterprise whose number of people reached has been multiplied by 500 and the operating budget by 100 in 10 years.
SANDEEP AHUJA
Blood Safety Strengthening Programme – This programme
improves the safety of blood transfusions
and sets out to develop and implement
an open source, low cost Blood Safety
Information System (BSIS). Designed
to manage blood donor data, the BSIS
enhances product and patient safety, as
well as management of shortfalls in dis-
tribution. Operational in blood transfusion
centres in Lesotho, Ghana, and Ethiopia,
the solution supports the Africa Society of
Blood Transfusion’s certification process,
as well as good international practices
in blood transfusion safety.
Programme Manager at Jembi Health Systems (South Africa), an NGO. Having worked in 12 countries, she has gained a lot of experience in the design, implementation, and management of programmes in low-resource contexts.
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HOPE, SENEGAL — A digital platform to facilitate donating blood
MMOM THAI NGUYEN, VIETNAM — A mobile health programme designed for ethnic minorities
KARANGUÉ, SENEGAL — An alert system to promote maternal and child health
MIRA CHANNEL, INDIA — UGANDA — AFGHANISTAN — A mobile network for women’s health in rural areas
AMAKOMAYA, NEPAL — A mobile application for pregnant women
KHUSHI BABY, INDIA — A connected pendant to improve infant immunisation
PEEK VISION, BOTSWANA — Giving everyone access to ophtalmic care
COMMUNITY TELEHEALTH, NEPAL — A teledermatology service for remote villages
THE SAFE DELIVERY APP, ETHIOPIA — A continuing-education tool for safer births
MOSAN, BURKINA FASO — mHealth to improve the health of mothers, babies, and people living with HIV
JOKKOSANTÉ, SENEGAL — The connected community pharmacy which combines the circular economy and cross-financing
DOCTOR GRATIS, INDONESIA — NIGERIA — INDIA — Telemedicine without borders
DJANTOLI, MALI — BURKINA FASO — Combining mobile technologies, health micro-insurance and preventive monitoring to fight against preventable deaths among young people
OPISMS VACCIN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE — An app to increase vaccination coverage
E-DIABÈTE, CÔTE D’IVOIRE — Providing continuing education for healthcare-related human resources
CONNECT +PHARMACY, PHILIPPINES — A medicine affordability program that connects patients to professionals
GIFTEDMOM, CAMEROON — Using digital technologies to improve maternal and infant health care access
MEDTRUCKS, MOROCCO — Facilitating access to care in medical deserts
The projects honoured at the annual conference are mostly entities operating in the Global South: NGOs, start-ups, social enterprises and public entities. Presentation of 2017 and 2016 winners:
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Anne Roos-Weil is Team Task Leader - Health & Social Protection
Unit at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and is
responsible for training and tracking of AFD-funded public health
projects, mainly in Africa. She is also a “digital leader” for the Health
and Social Protection Unit. Before she joined the AFD in 2017, Anne
had spent 15 years working in sustainable development (educa-
tion, migration, environment), including eight years as manager
of Djantoli, a charity known for its intervention model that uses
a mobile app to prevent and screen mother and baby diseases
(winner of the Fondation Pierre Fabre eHealth Observatory and
Rockefeller Foundation awards, and Ashoka Fellow).
Anne ROOS-WEIL,AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT
Chair of the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), he is also
manager and health informatician at the Thai Health Information
Standards Development Center (THIS). He works in partner-
ship with the WHO, BAD, and UNICEF to manage a variety of
eHealth initiatives in the region, such as five annual international
conferences on eHealth. Also Vice-President of the Thai Medical
Informatics Association, the informatician and doctor spent more
than 15 years working in rural public hospitals before earning a
masters and PhD in health informatics from the University of
Minnesota. His working areas and research interest are national
health information standards and interoperability, health infor-
mation exchanges, national eHealth strategy and health IT
adoption and CRVS.
Boonchai KIJSANAYOTIN,AEHIN
Dr Richard Gakuba is an eHealth consultant, and
a Senior Health Information Specialist at Jembi
Health Systems. Formerly director of eHealth at
the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, a post he occu-
pied for more than eight years, he holds a degree in
medicine from the National University of Rwanda
and a Master’s degree in eHealth from Brunel
University in the United Kingdom. He has worked
to develop digital health services in Rwanda and
other African countries for 13 years, and led the
development of national eHealth strategic plans
and policies as well as implementation of various
digital health solutions. The mHealth Alliance,
in partnership with FHI360 and the Rockefeller
Foundation, awarded him the Holly Ladd mHealth
Pioneer Award for his leadership in using mobile
technologies to improve healthcare results. He is
also an Eisenhower scholarship recipient.
Richard GAKUBA,AFRICAN ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL HEALTH NETWORKS
Professor Anta Tal-Dia is a doctor and graduate of
the Medicine, Pharmacy, and Odontology (FMPO) at
Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD). She is
a specialist in Paediatrics and Public Health, holder of
a diploma in Clinical Epidemiology, a diploma in Health
Economics, and another in Health and Development.
She holds the chair of Public Health at the FMPO
at UCAD. The head of the Department of Preventative
Medicine and Public Health and director of the Institute
for Health and Development (ISED), she is responsible
for teaching Public Health at the FMPO, the masters in
Public Health, the Specialist Diploma in Public Health,
and the doctoral training in Public Health at the UCAD
Doctoral School for Life Sciences and the Environment.
Professor Anta TAL-DIA is a member of the National
Health Ethics and Research Committee, president of
the Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Vaccinations
in Senegal, president of the AMREF West Africa
board of directors, member of the National Science
and Technology Academy in Senegal, and UNESCO’s
International Bioethics Committee.
Anta TAL-DIA,UNIVERSITY OF DAKAR
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Dr. Ly Sovann is Director of the Communicable
Disease Control Department in Cambodia. Owner
of a Doctorate in Medicine (Phnom Penh University
of Medical Science) and a masters in clinical trop-
ical medicine (Mahidol University), he has been
an expert in monitoring diseases since 1995.
He has a keen interest in information technology
and how it can be used to support public health.
He carries out research as part of national and
international projects, including a study on aspirin
abuse in coordination with Khon Kaen University
(Thailand) and a study on the prevalence of lep-
tospirosis. Head of the Communicable Disease
Surveillance Bureau and the Coordinator of
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Control
in Cambodia, as well as the Chief of the Disaster
Unit at the Public Health Bureau.
Sovann LY,CAMBODIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Born in an isolated rural village in the Annapurna region of Nepal,
Rajendra Poudel earned a masters in mathematics from Kathmandu
University, as well as Microsoft Certified System Engineering (MCSE)
certification. In 2004, he joined forces with Mahabir Pun, a social
entrepreneur, to bring the internet to 36 villages and provide
computer literacy classes for rural communities. The network also
provides distance learning services, online healthcare, and com-
puter classes for kids. It is one of the biggest, and first, community
wireless networks in the world. Rajendra Poudel founded an inno-
vative maternity support service using mobile telecommunications,
named Amakomaya. Recently, he launched another innovative and
low cost mobile solution for recording and monitoring vaccinations.
The Nepalese government’s Child Health Division approved of
the initiative, and a pilot programme was launched with financial
backing from UNICEF and the WHO.
Rajendra POUDEL,AMAKOMAYA
Professor Bagayoko holds a State doctorate
in medicine (Bamako Faculty). He chose to con-
solidate his ICT skills and set about earning
a CPD certificate in Medical Informatics (Geneva
University), a masters in Biomedical Informatics
and Health (Paris V University), a masters in
Systems Engineering and Expertise, and a PhD
in Medical Informatics (Aix Marseille II University).
Following expert assignments in Africa, and thanks
to the Telemedicine Network in French-Speaking
Africa, he has gained experience in developing
eHealth strategies, piloting and assessing proj-
ects, and developing appropriate tools for Africa.
A tenured member of Mali’s Academy of Science,
he has had his work in the field published and
earned scientific and honorary distinctions.
Cheick Oumar BAGAYOKO,BAMAKO UNIVERSITY
Director of the Department of Public Health and Specialisms in
the Medical Science Training and Research Unit at the University
of Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire since
2017. Joseph Aka is a teaching researcher, and an associate lecturer
in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at CAMES since 2002. He is
a member of Ivorian Society of Biosciences and Medical Informatics
(ISBHI) and a medicine graduate from the UFHB, and holds
a masters in medical statistics from London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine, a diploma in statistics from the University of
Reading, and a university diploma in Managing Medical Information
from the Nancy Medical Faculty. He is head of the Biostatistics,
Methodology, and Medical Informatics Lab, and head of the
Epidemiology and Statistics department at the National Institute
of Public Health in Côte d’Ivoire. He is the head of the Research
& Development department at the Regional Evaluation Center
for Education, Environment, Health and Accreditation in Africa,
the regional accreditation body, and an auditor/assessor for African
Society for Laboratory Medicine and CAMES. The author of more
than 20 scientific papers, he is also a co-author of “Demographic
Consequences of AIDS in Abidjan: 1986-1992”. He was a principal
consultant in the revision of CAMES’ quality documents.
Joseph AKA,ABIDJAN UNIVERSITY
Launched on the initiative of the Fondation Pierre Fabre, the Global South eHealth Observatory is now a leading resource and network-
ing platform for actors using innovative approches to address the challenges faced by low- and middle-income countries in ensuring access to healthcare. It sets out to identify, document, promote, and assist the development of eHealth initiatives that lead to lasting improvements in the access to quality healthcare and drugs for vulnerable communities.
More specifically, the Observatory’s data is hosted at www.odess.io. Stakeholders can submit their initiatives online, as well as compete for the Observatory awards. At the time of writing, we have identified, documented and listed more than 120 ini-tiatives. Every year, at its international con-ference, African and Asian winners receive their awards and one year of visibility and support from the Fondation Pierre Fabre and its partners.
GLOBAL SOUTH eHEALTH OBSERVATORY
“Supporting actors working to improve access to Healthcare”
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GILLES BABINET, serial entrepreneur and Digital Champion at the European Commission.
CHEICK OUMAR BAGAYOKO, Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Director of the Centre for Expertise and Research in Telemedicine and eHealth (CERTES), as well as Coordinator General of the Telemedicine Network in French-Speaking Africa.
MEHDI BENCHOUFI, doctor and head of clinic at Hôtel Dieu, expert in digital technology, founder of the Club JADE think-tank.
JEAN-LUC CLÉMENT, university professor, research advisor to the Delegation of European and International Relations and Cooperation (DREIC) at the Ministry of Education, Higher Education, and Research.
DEMBA DIALLO is a founding member of Innhotep, a consultancy that works to accelerate the growth of companies through innovation.
CATHERINE DE ROHAN CHABOT, a qualified chemist, specialised in health sector communications.
THE OBSERVATORY’S COMMITEE OF EXPERTS
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Patient and medicaldata monitoring
Information, education and behavioural change
Training healthcareprofessionals
Telemedicine(remotediagnosis and consultation)
Financial accessto healthcare,microinsurance
Other
NUMBER OF PROJECTS BY HEALTH THEME
Mother and child health
Primary healthcare
Sexual and reproductive health
Nutrition
Chronic diseases
Vaccination
HIV/AIDS
Infectious diseases
Malaria/Paludism
Access to quality medicines/pharmacy
Emergency care
Other
Dermatology
Cardiovascular diseases
Cancer
Ophtalmology
Mental health
Oral health
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SUPPORT FOR AWARD WINNING INITIATIVES THAT ARE TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE ACCESS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES TO BRING TOGETHER THOSE
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RAJENDRA POUDEL (EXPERT WINNER OF THE YEAR), founder of Amakomaya, an innovative maternity support service using mobile telecommunications in Nepal. A mathematics graduate and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), he is also behind one of the first wireless community networks in the world.
OBSERVATORY PARTNERS
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Offi cially recognised in France as an intitution of public utility since 1999, Fondation Pierre Fabre works to give populations in the Global South better access to quality medecines and
healthcare. Its four areas of intervention are training of drugs specialists, combating sickle-cell disease, access to quality
healthcare, and dermatology in tropical areas.
In 2018, the foundation runs 32 programmes in 15 countries in Africa, Asia, Lebanon, and Haiti.
IMPROVING HEALTHCARE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
www.fondationpierrefabre.orgwww.odess.io
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