We’re a year into COVID-19. The novelty value has worn off and for many, every day feels like Groundhog Day. As screens have become the window to work, as well as the window to friends and family, we’re spending the best part of our waking days talking to our devices. The likelihood is we’re missing non-verbal, …
Category: Sustainable Development
BroadReach Co-founders featured in Microsoft’s Humans and AI series
Africa, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Disruptive technology, Global Health, Health Equity, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development, Universal Health Coverage, Vantage Health TechnologiesMicrosoft’s Humans and AI Series focuses on passionate people from around the globe who are putting AI into action in order to transform the world. Our Co-founders, Dr John Sargent and Dr Ernest Darkoh have been featured for the work we are doing at BroadReach to change medical systems and improve care for patients. Click …
Community health workers must be better supported in 2021, the Year of the Healthcare Worker
Africa, BroadReach Health Development, Covid-19, Emerging economies, Future of Work, Global Health, Health Equity, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Sustainable DevelopmentFrontline health workers, who are to be honoured during the World Health Organization’s international Year of the Healthcare Worker in 2021, must be better supported in their vital role to beat back the global COVID-19 pandemic on community level, according to global health technology experts, BroadReach Group. Frontline health workers, and in particular Community Health …
Managing Directors of BroadReach Group businesses announced
Africa, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesBroadReach Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Bhuhi and Todd Malone as the Managing Directors of our two newly constituted business units: Vantage Health Technologies and BroadReach Health Development, respectively. BroadReach is a global social impact group whose mission is to harness health technologies and innovation that empower human action. We fulfil …
BroadReach Group announces partnership with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
Africa, AI for Healthcare, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Future of Work, Future of Work, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Sustainable Development, USA, Vantage Health TechnologiesNovember 2020: BroadReach Group proudly announces its role as partner on the recently launched Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. BroadReach has integrated its cloud platform for population health management – Vantage – with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Vantage provides management decision-support and operational tools to governments and private sector payer and provider organizations enabling them to …
Dr Ernest Darkoh appointed to Schwab Foundation Board
BroadReach Group, Global Health, Health Equity, Healthcare Innovation, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable DevelopmentThe Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has announced the appointment of Dr Ernest Darkoh, founding partner of the BroadReach Group, to its Board. As a world renowned thought leader, Dr Darkoh has more than 25 years of experience developing and implementing innovative health interventions at scale. As the sister organization of the World Economic Forum, …
Achieving UHC with fourth industrial revolution technology
AI for Healthcare, BroadReach Group, Digital Healthcare, Disruptive technology, Emerging economies, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development, Universal Health CoverageHealth care providers in emerging economies understand that the pursuit of universal health coverage by 2030 will place considerable pressure on already over-burdened health systems. The fundamental challenge is that demand greatly outstrips supply. Health care leaders operating at all points along the continuum of care understand that UHC by 2030 will require them to …
South Africa leading the way in the fight against HIV and AIDS
Africa, AI for Healthcare, BroadReach Group, BroadReach Health Development, Digital Healthcare, Global Health, Health Technology, Healthcare Innovation, HIV, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare, Public Health / Public Healthcare, Sustainable DevelopmentHealth Minister Zweli Mkhize, officially announced that the first high prevalence district in South Africa, the Ugu District in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) reached the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, a key milestone in controlling the HIV epidemic. Ugu has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world with 27% of the population HIV positive, making …
Why policy change is vital for tech innovation in social development programs
Africa, Disruptive technology, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable DevelopmentIt is only through creating a healthy ecosystem for social entrepreneurship that Africa can truly unlock the potential of technological social innovation to address the Sustainable Development Goals. Government policy, favorable to growing commercial and social enterprise, is a critical part of this ecosystem. In creating policies to build a sustainable social economy that is …
Interview: 9th SA AIDS Conference in Durban
Africa, BroadReach Group, Sustainable DevelopmentDr Ernest Darkoh, one of our Co-founders, was interviewed live on ENCA to talk about the SA AIDS Conference: Unprecedented Innovations and Technologies which took place from 11 – 14 June in Durban, South Africa. Organized by The Foundation for Professional Development (FPD), this conference is the second largest HIV conference in the world, and …
Why & How Technology Will Power SDG Success
Big Data and AI, Disruptive technology, Sustainable DevelopmentOp-Ed DevEx Humanity simply can’t afford to wait another 15 years for partial progress. World leaders launched the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 to address inequities in human rights, but after 15 years and only partial progress achieved, an even larger group of global leaders launched an even more ambitious set of objectives to reach …
Q&A with Microsoft EVP Worldwide Commercial Business, Judson Althoff
Big Data and AI, Disruptive technology, Emerging economies, Sustainable DevelopmentDevelopment budgets in jeopardy — time to embrace digital transformation Public and private organizations working in emerging markets face intense and unrelenting pressure to radically boost efficiency and create sustainable outcomes as public funding, previously earmarked for development, declines. Judson Althoff, executive vice president of worldwide commercial business at Microsoft, believes that digital technology could play …
Healthy citizens, healthy economies
Africa, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Disruptive technology, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Development5 ways to leverage technology for inclusive growth Inclusive growth for all citizens of the African continent is the rallying point for the 2017 World Economic Forum on Africa. To that end, we challenge leaders convening in Durban, South Africa, to embrace the multi-faceted definition of human health captured in the opening principle of the constitution …
Pivoting from Slow Start to Strong Finish
Africa, Big Data and AI, BroadReach Group, Disruptive technology, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable DevelopmentHow Data-Driven Solutions Can Transform the SDGs “Slow Start Towards Sustainable Development Goals” – that’s hardly the headline conclusion the global development community was hoping to read in the recent survey of 500 professionals across six sectors and seventy-four countries, titled “Evaluating Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals,” conducted by GlobalScan and SustainAbility. The Sustainable …
Together, We Are Creating Meaningful Change
Africa, BroadReach Group, Sustainable DevelopmentDear Friend, 2016 underscored that social entrepreneurship is truly a “force multiplier” — a definition coined by USAID to celebrate the power of public-private partnerships. Together with you, our clients and partners across global development organisations, government ministries and private companies, we are working to unlock human and economic potential for populations in need. During …
McKinsey & Company Report on Africa – a must read
Africa, Sustainable DevelopmentRealizing the potential of Africa’s economies “Governments will have to play a stronger role in unleashing renewed dynamism. Six priorities emerge from this research: Mobilize more domestic resources, aggressively diversify economies, accelerate infrastructure development, deepen regional integration, create tomorrow’s talent, and ensure healthy urbanization.” We believe that a data-driven foundation will drive government priorities to …