OVERVIEW

Professor Sharifah Sekalala (PI) and Professor Pamela Andanda (Co-I) jointly lead on this package which involves the synthesis of findings across all other work packages, as well as strategic project oversight, training and working with consortium partners and the Advisory Board to create impact.

OUTPUTS

Workshops

• On 4-8 September 2023: Warwick Law School hosted 30 participants from Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, India, Singapore, the Netherlands, Columbia and the United Kingdom in-person and online for a series of engaging discussions on the challenges, solutions and regional perspectives pertaining to the rapidly evolving digital health landscape globally. The Digital Health Workshop on 4 September included insightful presentations on emerging research from authors for the project’s upcoming Special Issue can be viewed here. You can also view Professor Sharifah Sekalala’s lecture on ‘Law, Regulation, and Health’ on 5 September. The Workshop and lecture were part of a weeklong Summer School for the digital health scholars, activists and developers working on the broader comparative project in Sub-Saharan Africa and was funded by Wellcome Trust.

• On 1-2 February 2023: the project investigators brought together project team members across all work packages to share ideas and visions, discuss progress and chart a collective path forward. The two-day workshop was funded by the University of Witwatersrand, hosted by the University of Nairobi and was attended by civil society representatives from the Open Institute, CEHURD and CIPESA, as well as academics from the University of Nairobi, the University of Warwick and the University of Witwatersrand. The collaboration, collective thinking and expertise of our diverse team will guarantee the continued success of this project, ensuring it meets its outcomes in shaping the solutions we need to improve health data collection and use in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• On 14 April 2021: the Project Investigators hosted an international webinar in Kenya bringing together stakeholders in data handling, data management and protection of Health applications to discuss challenges and possibilities for innovation, particularly within the Sub-Saharan African context.

• On 29 June 2021: the Project Investigators hosted an international webinar in South Africa bringing together stakeholders to explore with government regulators, public health researchers, medical licensing boards and app innovators/users their perceptions of the regulatory problems of health apps, particularly within the Sub-Saharan African context.