What would it take to build a truly self-determined, resilient health ecosystem in Africa?
In Episode 3 of Investing in Impact, host Moses Waweru sits down with three leading voices in global health policy and innovation — Prof. Mirkuzie Woldie, Senior Health Policy and Systems Advisor at the Ministry of Health Ethiopia; Gina Lagomarsino, CEO of Results for Development; and Thomas Davin, Global Innovation Director at UNICEF — for a conversation recorded at the IDIA Summit in Nairobi.
Together, they look beyond immediate challenges to explore a deeper and more urgent shift: how African health systems can move away from fragmented, externally driven models toward integrated systems shaped by local priorities, community engagement, and homegrown data.
The discussion spans the role of AI in government decision-making, the case for domestic financing, and why community-based systems are foundational — not supplementary — to long-term resilience. It’s a challenge to how governments, innovators, and partners think about scale, sustainability, and what impact actually means.
The question was never who funds the solution. It’s whether the solution creates enough value to fund itself.
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The future of health innovation in Africa depends on building robust ecosystems that are integrated, data-driven, and designed to serve real communities. This conversation is a blueprint for what that future could look like.