healthcare in africa

Welcome back to the Think BIG for Africa Podcast. In today’s episode, my guest is a medical doctor, a Public Health Specialist, and a Researcher; Bridget Nwagbara. Bridget is an advocate for cardiovascular health and longevity. She is also the Co-founder of Viedial Healthcare which builds personalized care to prevent cardiovascular diseases.
 
In this conversation, we covered topics like;

-       Why Africans are prone to Cardio-Vascular diseases

-       The MYTH of long life in African villages

-       Public Health Advocacy for Cardio-Vascular Diseases in Nigeria 

-       How to get stakeholders to buy-in into the implementation of public health policies and proposals

-       The issues that motivated Bridget to choose to work on Cardio-Vascular diseases

-       The need for individuals to find out their Risk Factors for Cardio-Vascular diseases

-       Bridget’s books recommendations - Biographies and Philosophies that shape our times

-      AI, “Coded Gaze” and other ways of knowing – interesting concept 

-       Longevity and Re-designing of Life 

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Welcome back to the Think BIG for Africa Podcast. In today’s episode, my guest is Sharon Mbugua; a friend I met in Nairobi in 2006. Back then Sharon was working in Market Research and Consumer Insights. However, this conversation was not about her career, it was about the most precious gift we have; life.

Sharon survived a brain tumor and today, she is living with epilepsy and the impacts on her life. Our conversation started with a chit-chat catch-up after 17 years and evolved into;

Life-Changing Health Event – Sharon shared being diagnosed with a cancerous  brain tumor, treatment, and surgery in India which resulted in regular epilepsy episodes

Becoming an Epilepsy Warrior – Sharon advocates for epilepsy, media appearances, podcasting – “Wellness and You”, as well as being appointed to national and international (UN) led organizations.

Consequences of Underfunded Healthcare in Africa – Discussion on healthcare funding and the inevitable eventualities in a few decades as Africa’s young population gets older and needs healthcare.

Changing or Losing Careers Due to Healthcare Crisis – I and Sharon tried to articulate our individual struggles to return to our former careers after our health incidents.

Sharon’s book recommendations, advice to young Africans, and her vision for Africa by 2050.
 
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Our exploration of the entrepreneurs and startups digitizing analog and fragmented industries takes us to Nigeria, for a conversation with Helium Health's Co-founder and CEO Goke Olubusi. Helium's electronic medical records are providing the digital infrastructure for healthcare sectors across Africa, enabling a variety of stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.

4:26 - First question: what does the state of healthcare look like, and how is Helium Health solving the industry's problems?
9:16 - Helium's origin story. 
11:48 - On the big picture solutions that are required to have the type of impact in healthcare the continent needs. 
13:12 - A discussion on the benefits and opportunity of an open and operable approach.
15:46 - Helium's geographic and product expansion strategies.
19:42 - The impact of improving and opportunity to improve the efficiency of healthcare spending in Africa.  

This episode is part of our conversational series sponsored by  MFS Africa. MFS Africa’s competition is with cash, and throughout this series, we’ll feature other startups and entrepreneurs who are digitizing, better organizing, and aggregating analog and fragmented industries.

Our exploration of the entrepreneurs and startups digitizing analog and fragmented industries takes us to Nigeria, for a conversation with Helium Health's Co-founder and CEO Goke Olubusi. Helium's electronic medical records are providing the digital infrastructure for healthcare sectors across Africa, enabling a variety of stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.

4:26 - First question: what does the state of healthcare look like, and how is Helium Health solving the industry's problems?
9:16 - Helium's origin story. 
11:48 - On the big picture solutions that are required to have the type of impact in healthcare the continent needs. 
13:12 - A discussion on the benefits and opportunity of an open and operable approach.
15:46 - Helium's geographic and product expansion strategies.
19:42 - The impact of improving and opportunity to improve the efficiency of healthcare spending in Africa.  

This episode is part of our conversational series sponsored by  MFS Africa. MFS Africa’s competition is with cash, and throughout this series, we’ll feature other startups and entrepreneurs who are digitizing, better organizing, and aggregating analog and fragmented industries.