Vital Strategies

There is a lot going on at the World Health Organization #WHA79 . We are in the “messy middle” of transformation and trying to get our arms around ever increasing unmet needs and proliferating threats. It’s challenged me to think about the choices we all make about where to focus and where to commit scare resources. What keeps me centered? Why do I think the foundational systems work we do at Vital Strategies is so important? Especially our efforts to ensure that everyone is #counted , #recognized , and #connected to national digital public infrastructure. It’s this: We help make sure that, even in the digital age, health systems remain #people -centered. Through digitalized birth registration that links to a unique and legal digital ID, health systems can reach you, learn your needs, target responses and track outcomes - across all points of service and over a life-course. This is what #NextGenPublicHealthSystems can look like. Build the right foundations once and: 👉🏼 save resources that would have been spent on vertical delivery and measurement systems; 👉🏼 scale innovations that are stuck in pilotitis, open up markets, and incentivize more investments in health; 👉🏼 judge value in the same system and improve our ability to identify what’s making a difference and what’s not - and then stop doing what’s not! Read more about my thoughts on this👇🏼 and share yours in the comments. #FoundationsAndFutures https://lnkd.in/eTxAV93J

What an inspiring visit! A big 🙏🏼 to Eric Remera, PhD and the team at the #HealthIntelligence Center (HIC) at the Ministry of Health, Republic of Rwanda 🇷🇼 for hosting us. This was seeing #NextGenPublicHealthSystems in action and getting a glimpse of what’s possible with #FoundationsAndFutures in mind. The #HIC is enabled by six layers of digital architecture integrating data across Rwanda's health system. All the way from #village -level information on births and deaths to patterns of #maternaldeaths at tertiary facilities, from supply chains to ambulance networks, and from #climate data to wildlife patterns. It was a real eye-opener to witness firsthand the critical role #CivilRegistration and #Vitalstatistics data plays in this system. Instead of waiting years for survey results, government officials can use realtime #individual -level data to see trends as they develop and respond immediately. #PublicHealthIntelligence So proud of the work the Vital Strategies team is doing hand-in-hand with colleagues at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre , Ministry of Health Rwanda MoH and Ministry of ICT & Innovation, Rwanda to #digitalize birth and death registration with linkage to #digitalID systems, improve #causeofdeath recording and reporting, and then connect this data to the #HIC . We also met with Uwinkindi Francois at the #NCD Division to learn more about how improvements in #cancer #registry data is supporting their #cervicalcancer elimination goals and helping to track progress towards the 90-70-90 targets Even more exciting 👉🏼 🇷🇼 continues to strengthen foundations already in place - data quality, data architecture, standards, connectivity, #HCW trainings, governance policies - so that as it integrates #AI -enabled analytics into the #HIC , both government and the public can be assured that decisions made from these analyses can be #trusted . Stay tuned for more on how to ensure #AI delivers on lasting public health benefit. #FoundationsAndFutures

It’s tommorow! [Tuesday May 19th] 👉🏼 Release of #GlobalSouth edition of #FoundationsAndFutures that includes a #AIReadiness scan across 83 countries 🌎🌍🌏 👉🏼 Panel discussion with regional leaders Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr ( Pan American Health Organization ), Dr. Jean Kaseya ( Africa CDC ), Adelheid Onyango ( World Health Organization African Region ) and Catharina Boehme ( World Health Organization South-East Asia ) on the role of regional bodies to help ensure safe, responsible and impactful deployment of #AI -enabled solutions at scale. 👉🏼 Roundtable discussion with government officials from 🇧🇷🇳🇬🇹🇭🇸🇳🇮🇩 (and others TBC) on what counties are doing, need, and can offer to build #AIready health systems so that #AIsolutions can operate at #scale for more #equitable publichealth #impact . 👉🏼 How Vital Strategies will be harnessing the power of #peerlearning through #PILLARs - a new global south learning network - to accelerate the diffusion of critical foundations needed to capture the promise of #AIforHealth . #NextGenerationPublicHealthSystems