Emmanuel Blin is the founder and CEO of Tech Care for All (TC4A), a social impact company whose goal is to accelerate digital health in Africa and Asia as key enabler to improve health outcomes in underserved communities. Having grown up in sub-Saharan Africa, Emmanuel has a deep commitment to making our world a healthier and more equitable place. His vision is to bridge digital health innovation happening in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa and with the numerous unmet healthcare needs of Africa and Asia. Emmanuel created Tech Care for All (TC4A) in 2017 after 20 y
Geetanjali is the President of Apnalaya, an NGO working with India’s urban poor to create sustainable communities. Apnalaya's approach is to empower the community to access basic services of health, education and livelihood and to advocate with government agencies to ensure access to civil entitlements for all. Perviously Geetanjali served as the CEO of ARMMAN, an NGO working in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health across India. ARMMAN leverages technology to create scalable and impactful solutions. In that role she was integrally involved in the
Dr. Frasia Karua is Director of Strategic Projects at Evercare Healthcare Group, an impact-driven investment firm that invests in healthcare facilities in emerging markets across Africa and South Asia. Previously she was General Manager of Amref Enterprises Limited, a subsidiary of Amref Health Africa, where she ran a portfolio of social enterprises. Frasia has 15 years of experience in the health sector in Africa, having held leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance and clinical services. She is a medical doctor with postgraduate training
Dr. Jacqueline Kitulu is a Family Physician in private practice in Kenya for the last 15 years. She is the immediate Past President of the Kenya Medical Association (KMA), the umbrella professional association for doctors in Kenya. She was the first female to chair the 50-year old association. She is also the Second Deputy Governor of the Kenya Red Cross Society and sits on several other boards, including that of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, the Kenya Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the Kenya Consumer Protection
Nayan Kalnad is the CEO of Avegen. Avegen is a digital healthcare company empowering individuals to take control of their health and supporting healthcare professionals in delivering life-changing care. Avegen’s core technology, HealthMachine®, is a cloud-hosted, next generation digital healthcare platform for pioneers in digital healthcare, including healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, to deploy high quality and safe digital health products efficiently and effectively. Having lived, educated, trained and worked in India, Nayan is pa
Dr Rosemary Foster is a senior technical advisor with the Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) in the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, where her work is focused on digital interventions and informatics to support healthcare service delivery. Rosemary has an academic background in social science, computer science and biomedical engineering on which she has built extensive experience in information technology and medical informatics, in Canada and South Africa. As Director of ICT Serv