Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF) 2024

We are proud to sponsor and present at the Global Digital Health Forum (GDHF), an annual convening of the leading innovators, implementers, and investors advancing digital and data-driven initiatives to improve health systems, equity, and outcomes worldwide.

Abt is a translation fund sponsor to encourage greater accessibility for different audiences.  

Our global digital health experts are participating in presentations covering topics such as digital literacy and equity, sustainability of video-enabled treatment for TB, improving community health delivery via digital tools, and cross-border interoperability of electronic medical records, among other topics. 

We’re an international organization that partners to deliver better data, insights to action, and localized solutions to facilitate person-centered care. 

Committed to country-led, sustainable solutions that reflect global best practices, Abt pairs our content and subject matter expertise with digital and technology solutions to ensure that clients have the right data, resulting insights, and recommendations to inform their decision making. Our technical capabilities span across critical public health areas, including infectious disease prevention and control, emergency preparedness, chronic disease prevention, health promotion, telehealth, maternal and child health, and behavioral health.   

We capture high-quality data from a range of sources and use rigorous methods to analyze, communicate, and contextualize data. Data capture involves collecting the right data in a usable format in a timely manner. We also support our clients in modernizing their data systems to unlock the full potential of the data they collect every day. Our statisticians, economists, and computer and data scientists work with subject matter experts to craft solutions and measure impact using an equity lens. We devise sampling designs for surveys and observational studies and design clinical trials—all with an eye toward accuracy, equity, and agility. 

At Abt, we have used data and emerging technology to tackle the world’s toughest challenges since our founding. And it remains the heart of what we do today.

Participation

Women in Digital Health Leadership Workshop 
December 3, 2024 
Co-sponsored by USAID, the World Bank Group, Abt Global, and AWS

Lightning Talks

Tuesday, December 3

20:00 – 21:00 EAT | Virtual 
Title: (Em)Powering Change: Localized Climate-Resilient Maternal and Child Health Digital Health Solutions in Tajikistan 
Presenter: Yuliya Mamedova, Digital Solutionist, USAID Healthy Mother Healthy Baby

20:00 – 21:00 EAT | Virtual 
Title: Advancing to interoperability, integration, and unification of data with a migration approach in Colombia: Strengthening of the Integrated Social Protection Information System (SISPRO) 
Presenter: Mónica Villanueva, Deputy Director – Office of Migration and Alejandro Díaz, Project Management Specialist – OM (USAID/COL)

Wednesday, December 4

18:30 – 19:30 EAT | Virtual 
Title: Increasing Health Facility Access to Commodities Through Systems Interoperability 
Presenter: Desderi Wengaa, Technical Director, USAID PS3+

20:00 – 21:00 EAT | Virtual 
Title: Web tool for monitoring pregnant individuals in Colombia 
Presenters: Mónica Villanueva and Alejandro Díaz (USAID/COL)

Oral Presentations (In-Person)

Thursday, December 5

11:30 – 12:30 | Location TBD 
Title: Strengthening Community Health Delivery with a Digitally Enabled Unified Community System in Tanzania 
Presenters: Felix Sukums, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences,  Silvanus Ilomo, Acting Director of ICT Ministry of Health Tanzania, Makunda Kassongo, USAID, Oswald Luoga, PATH

Friday, December 6

10:00 – 11:00 EAT | Location TBD 
Title: What Happens Next? Ensuring sustainability of video-supported treatment without external support in Pilot sites 
Presenter: Dr. Begimkul Kholikulov, Tuberculosis Case Management Specialist, USAID TB Free Uzbekistan

11:30 – 12:30 EAT | Location TBD 
Title: Digital Literacy, Equity, and Access: Empowering Community-Level Digitalization of Health Insurance in Tajikistan 
Presenter: Yuliya Mamedova, Digital Solutionist, USAID Healthy Mother Healthy Baby

11:30 – 12:30 EAT | Location TBD 
Title: Developing the East African Community (EAC) Regional Health Data Governance Framework: Experience from Country Consultations and Consensus 
Presenters:  Eng. Andrew Kajeguka, Senior Health Officer (Digital Health), East African Community (EAC), Maureen Ogada-Ndekana, COP Kenya, USAID LHSS

Virtual Interactive Workshop

Tuesday, December 3

23:00 – 23:59 EAT | Virtual 
Title: Interactive Demonstration of the CrossCut Application, with a specific focus on malaria use case 
Presenters: Bryan Fei, IT and Database Manager, PMI Evolve – Ghana, Coite Manuel (Crosscut Founder)