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Digital Innovations in Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
Digital Innovations in Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
Mobile and data technologies for health financing may help countries in Sub-Saharan Africa improve access to health services and reduce poverty. The DigitalUHC consortium aims to systematically identify such technologies, investigate their impact, and generate evidence for their expansion and institutionalization to achieve universal health coverage. The consortium applied for funding for a preparatory phase of African-German Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In support of the application, this website provides complementary information on the representatives of participating research institutions.
GERMANY - BERLIN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (BSPH)
Dr Julius Emmrich
Dr Julius Emmrich
Dr Emmrich is a neurologist and global health researcher at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, associate of the Einstein Center Digital Future, chairman of the NGO Doctors for Madagascar, and co-founder of mTOMADY, a Malagasy-German social enterprise. He works on the development and scientific evaluation of sustainable digital health interventions in low resource settings with a particular focus on financial risk protection. Julius holds an MD/PhD degree from the University of Leipzig, Germany and Mount Sinai Medical School, USA and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Dr Samuel Knauss
Dr Samuel Knauss
Dr Knauss is a global health researcher at the Berlin School of Public Health, and a neurologist, and neuroscientist at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. During his studies in Berlin and at Harvard Medical School he founded his first Digital Health Startup. As Digital Clinician Scientist at the Berlin Institute of Health, he works on the conception, implementation and scientific evaluation of the impact of digitization in global health and is a co-founder of the Malagasy-German social enterprise of mTOMADY.
Dr Wilm Quentin
Dr Wilm Quentin
Dr Quentin is part of the Berlin School of Public Health Global Digital Health Lab and leading the project area “Global Health” of the Department of Health Care Management at TU Berlin. He has attracted more than €6 million of research funding in the past 5 years. Wilm is an associate editor of the Journal Health Policy and coordinates the Health Reform Monitor section of the WHO European Observatory. He is a regular consultant for international Organisations (WHO EURO, WHO AFRO, World Bank) and national governments. He holds a Visiting Associate Professor position at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
GERMANY - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Professor Manuela De Allegri
Professor Manuela De Allegri
Prof De Allegri has a diverse academic training in Sociology, Health Economics, and Global Health. Her areas of expertise include health financing, impact and process evaluation, and economic evaluation, with specific application to social health protection and provider payment mechanisms in low and middle income countries. Through the systematic application of mixed methods approaches, Manuela combines quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis in her work.
GHANA - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Dr Daniel Opoku
Dr Daniel Opoku
Dr Opoku is the Leader of the eHealth Research Partner Group and a faculty at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He also holds a Research Fellow position at the Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology in Germany. Daniel had his academic training in the interdisciplinary fields of sociology (BA) and Public Health (MSc.PH and Dr.PH) in Ghana and Germany respectively. His research interests are in health systems digitalization, health care innovations, evidence-based health policy, and Africa.
MADAGASCAR - University of Antananarivo (UAE)
Professor Richard Blanche
Professor Richard Blanche
Prof Blanche is the Head of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Antananarivo and former Minister of Higher Education and Research of Madagascar. During her ministerial term she has strengthened research collaboration and university networks in Madagascar and internationally. Her work focusses on social protection and patient rights in Madagascar and beyond.
KENYA - African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
Dr Catherine Kyobutungi
Dr Catherine Kyobutungi
Dr Kyobutungi is the Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center and co-Director of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Catherine has a medical background and is a trained epidemiologist with research interests in Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Systems Strengthening. She has designed and tested service delivery models for resource-constrained settings such as slum settings and is a strong advocate for the societal benefit of research beyond traditional research outputs.
RWANDA - University of Global Health Equity (UGHE)
Professor Timothy Carey
Professor Timothy Carey
Prof Carey is the inaugural Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research and the Andrew Weiss Chair of Research in Global Health at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. With a background in clinical psychology and statistics a major focus of his work is the central importance of control to matters of equity. He has pioneered clinical applications such as patient-led appointment scheduling, an efficiency ratio, and a-diagnostic cognitive therapy for flexible and responsive psychological treatment that is effective and efficient.
SOUTH AFRICA - University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
Professor Tobias Chirwa
Professor Tobias Chirwa
Prof Chirwa is the Head of the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also the Programme Director for the Wellcome Trust/AESA funded DELTAS Africa Sub-Sahara Africa Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics training (SSACAB) and co-directs the Fogarty training grant on Implementation Science and Advanced Cohort Analyses, together with the WHO/TDR Implementation Research. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Malawi (UNIMA), MSc in Biostatistics from the University of Hasselt and PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Prof. Chirwa is an experienced public health researcher and biostatistician; he has taken administrative, data management, and statistical responsibility for more than 30 research projects.
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