The impact of climate change has been described as multifaceted.  It impacts the physical environment as well as all aspects of both natural and human systems. This also includes social and economic conditions and the functioning of health systems.

According to the American Public Health Association, the major  causes and upstream drivers of climate change and its health impacts revolve around  energy, transportation, land use, housing, planning, food and agriculture, and socioeconomic systems.  

According to the World Health Organisation, over  3.6 billion people already live in areas highly susceptible to climate change and it is expected that, between 2030 and 2050, climate change impacts will cause up to 250,000 additional deaths per year.  The unpredictable and inconsistent nature of changing climate is increasingly posing  a significant threat to public health and impacting various aspects of individual and community  well-being. 

Countries across the world must take intentional steps to mitigate the rising threats of climate change to public health. The 23rd episode of Insights Webinar  will provide a comprehensive overview of climate change and its impact on public health. The webinar will explain strategies and how public healthcare systems can respond to potential  climate change healthcare emergencies. 

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According to the United Nations, Progress towards ending poverty needs to be 26 times faster to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This is not unconnected to the fact that, globally 10.3 percent of women live in extreme poverty and they are poorer than men. One of the major challenges in achieving gender equality by 2030 is lack of sufficient investment in women with a report of over USD 360 billion annual deficit in spending on gender-equality measures .

This may have informed this year’s United Nations theme for International Women’s Day. This is due to the fact that investment in women creates employment, bridges economic gaps and creates a more equal world. In this vein, Strengthening quality education for women and girls and ensuring equal access to leadership training, career development, and funded programmes, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), is a key to successful digital transformation.

Thus, addressing institutional barriers, including through removing discriminatory laws, expanding women’s participation in leadership and decision-making and right-sizing investments in gender equality at the national, regional and global levels, are among the concrete actions needed to substantially accelerate progress by 2030. Also, involving different stakeholders, including men and boys, is imperative.
In line with the 2024 UN theme for the International Women’s Day, the 20th episode of the Insights Webinar will focus on the need to invest in digital skills for women  to further accelerate growth and progress in the health sector and across all other facets of endeavours . The webinar series enables insightful conversation with public health professionals to establish eHealth Africa as a thought leader in the Public Health space, create visibility for the organisation, and create new business opportunities for the organisation within the public health space.

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Beyond the challenges of lack of quality medical equipment and poor staffing, one key issue that has impeded  the optimal performance of Primary Healthcare facilities in Low and Medium Income Countries (LMIC) is poor access to adequate power supply.  According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), close to One Billion globally are served by health-care facilities with unreliable electricity supply or with no electricity access at all. 

This worrisome statistics no doubt has a significant impact on public health delivery especially in primary health care facilities and  cottage hospitals in remote areas. Amongst other impacts, poor power access would affect vaccine potency, Blood bank storage,  operation of medical equipment, and adequate lighting for essential procedures. This can hinder efforts to immunise populations, diagnose illnesses, and respond effectively to medical emergencies. 

However, the benefits of sustainable renewable energy in healthcare delivery far outweighs its potential risk.  Access to sustainable power supply via Clean energy  creates an enabling environment for inclusive, impactful, and accelerated electrification and a climate-friendly  health sector. Achieving clean energy, especially in the health sector, will go some miles in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7); ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Beyond this, accessibility to better healthcare service as a result will also help to prevent needless suffering from preventable diseases and premature death by focusing on key targets that boost the health of a country’s overall population. This is also in line with the SDG 3; healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 

In this vein, the 19th episode of the Insights Webinar will discuss integrating Renewable Energy Solutions for Primary Healthcare Facilities. Insights webinar is a Public Health webinar series hosted by eHealth Africa. The webinar series enables insightful conversation with public health professionals to establish eHealth Africa as a thought leader in the Public Health space, create visibility for the organisation, and create new business opportunities for the organisation within the public health space. 

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In May 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally launched the Geographic Information System (GIS) Centre for Health in a bid to manage the production and use of geospatial data and tech systems towards strengthening public health interventions. According to the WHO, despite its numerous medical applications and importance in global health, many countries currently lack the benefits of (GIS) to strengthen their health information system. 

This may not be unconnected to some technical encumbrances and bottlenecks that may have hindered the optimum utilisation of the systems especially in preparing and responding to health emergencies. The challenges of accessing accurate environmental and demographic amongst other issues around both software and hardware coupled with inadequate technical capacity have become a serious bane to maximum efficacy of GIS in developing countries.

In this vein, there are huge opportunities for developing countries to explore and adopt context-specific systems to improve healthcare delivery. Thus the 14th episode of insights webinar titled; Optimising Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Improve Healthcare Delivery, will discuss how to surmount challenges to scale GIS in a bid to improve different aspects of healthcare delivery. 

The webinar will also amplify interventions by ehealth Africa and other stakeholders in the deployment of geospatial data.

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Emerging health concerns have increasingly necessitated the need for innovation of modern digital health intervention to improve surveillance capacity for better preparation and response to public health emergencies. In response to health emergency situations especially in Nigeria, there has been an increasing challenge of ineffective coordination amongst health stakeholders and government agencies has most times hindered the chances of collectively assessing situations and developing a tailored innovative solution.

Thus the 13th episode of insights webinar titled; “Innovating for an improved Surveillance, Emergency Preparedness and Response in Public Health”, will discuss  the need for innovations that will improve preparation of healthcare systems to combat and respond to health emergencies.  The webinar will also amplify interventions by ehealth Africa and other partner organizations to improve surveillance and preparedness for health emergency response initiatives. 

The webinar will discuss the challenges and prospect of surveillance, preparedness and response in public health while providing a platform to amplify the efforts of stakeholders and key lessons learned in innovating for better preparedness and response to health emergencies.

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The media industry is constantly evolving, and journalists and media players need to keep up with the changing trends to remain relevant and competitive. One of the key trends in the industry is the use of technology and social media to disseminate news and information.  

Thus, as part of its effort to boost the digital capacity of its community, eHealth Africa will train journalists on the basics of how to create and design websites to further amplify their content in a bid to reach wider audiences. 

The training is part of the eHA Academy initiative aimed to build the capacity of young people in the utilization of digital tools to solve local problems and promote digital solutions. 

The training will be held on Tuesday, 20th June 2023 from 10:30 am.

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As we strive towards achieving the Sustainable Development  Goal of ensuring  inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, it is increasingly important to embrace digital education. 

In this vein, the 12th episode of  Insights webinar series titled "Building the Tech Skills Gap in Public Health" seeks to raise awareness on the existing gaps in Tech Skills, and the importance of bridging the gap to  enhance public health in Africa. 

The webinar will provide a platform for open discussion, sharing of experiences, and learning from each other's perspectives how to foster innovation and progress in public health tech skills development. 

During the one hour event, experts with timeless experience in building tech capacity of young people to develop digital health solutions for public health will share success stories, challenges and future prospects on building a cohort of tech experts and solution providers in public health.

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World Malaria Day is a time to examine the threats and support a more innovative implementation for more resilient malaria programs.

In commemoration of World Malaria Day, we will host the Insights webinar on the topic Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Investing in Sustainable Digital Health Innovations to join the collective activism that will drive the change to end malaria from grassroots action to wide-scale and global momentum.

Our panelists will share insights and experiences that will assist relevant stakeholders and

industry players in investing in sustainable digital health innovations to reduce malaria

transmission to a level where it is no longer a public health problem.

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Click here to register now.