Hello everyone! I’m Susan Maigua, Project Manager at Medic Mobile based in Nairobi, Kenya. I am passionate about equitable health and leveraging on digital health tools to support the community cadres in health services provision. I am excited to learn more on how we are employing various project management methodologies and approaches to enhance service delivery and ensure sustainability.
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Hello! I’m Jason Friesen, founder of Trek Medics Intl, a nonprofit that improves emergency medical systems in resource-limited settings through mobile technologies. I’m very glad to be here and am very excited to see Medic Mobile has been able to launch this. You guys are always doing awesome work and are such great advocates for the work we’re all doing in digital health/CHW/mHealth etc. I look forward to learning and contributing where possible. Keep up the great work!!
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Hello! I’m @kenn, a developer working on the CHT based out of Squamish, Canada. I’m a programmer and system builder at heart and am thrilled to contribute toward efforts which further health as a human right. I believe community health programming is an under-utilized tool given its proven efficiency and effectiveness. In part, I draw from the passions of my mother who worked in community health programs with Oji-Cree communities in Northern Canada.
Outside of work, I pursue rock climbing, gardening, and kayaking. Looking forward to sharing ideas and learning about your work!
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Good morning members,
Am Alex Bwogi, Executive Director and Co-Founder at Ujamaa Tribe, Head Growth And Strategy at Mfano Design LAB, Director Data Management at Kafeero Foundation and A Social serial Entrepreneur.
Am pleased and happy to Join this from, this was introduced to be by a one @Brian Ssenoga from @Medic Mobile During A 5 Days Design And Strategy Bootcamp With Kiwoko Hospital, and i got interested in working with Medic Mobile and Community health toolkit to improve health care in the rural area of Mid Central Uganda.
hope to get the best and hope to connect with more people on this forum
Thank you!!!
Alex
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Welcome to the Forum @Alex_Bwogi! It sounds like you’re doing some absolutely fascinating work; I’ve had fun exploring the Kafeero Foundations website and learning a bit more about what they do. Do you attend many bootcamps + hack-a-thons? We’re hoping to host a few in 2020, and are always interested in feedback about what works and what doesn’t!
@francesca yes we do attend boot camps, and also organize some, for hack -a- thons not so much, but we are open to be part of any when invited or called upon.
on the side of work, yes we exploring various scopes, design Thinking now being the current scope we are exploring and currently working with various institutions in Uganda and Burundi.
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Hi All,
My name is Fathia Ibrahim Hassan from Ethiopia. I recently graduated BSc midwifery and I am going to start my own health care business and help my rural communities to access a quality health care services and products. So I am really very excited to be part of this community network. Thank You
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Hi @fathia, we’re so glad to have you here! You bring such a valuable perspective to our community, and I can’t wait to hear more about your work! Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. 
Thanks a lot and I am also glad to be with you.
Dear Francesca to let you introduce our work, we initiated a healthcare business idea which is called FATHIA Healthcare Business. Our healthcare business idea objective is to create a quality and affordable innovative healthcare service delivery system which is close and accessible to pastoral women and girls.
We are going to put in place and create a healthcare service delivery system that work for the pastoral women and girls, by setting up a new self-care frontier approach, to help these pastoral and rural women and girls access their healthcare without the consultation of medical professional. This self-care approach will place the power in the hands of pastoral people, particularly women and girls to understand and manage their own health.
We will offer and sell a quality and affordable new self-care technologies:
• Devices-self-injectable contraceptives and products
• Diagnostics-HIV self-testing
Our innovative social marketing solution will make sure to understand and influence the behaviours of market systems to increase availability and accessibility of new products and technologies for sexual and reproductive health services.
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Hello, my name is Mark Herringer. I’m a South African living in Amsterdam with my partner and our daughter. Favourite places include the Alps, Table mountain, Sri Lanka, Indonesia. I stay fit in Amsterdam by bouldering.
I lead the healthsites.io project. My career started in the townships of Cape Town where I had the opportunity to work with Primary Health Care specialist’s from Philani Nutrition Centres. I’m a digital producer and have spent most of my career in London exploring open data and working as a Scrum master and coach.
Healthsites is building a baseline of health facility data with OpenStreetMap. We are looking to drive the development of the data with Human Centred Design focused on Emergency Health (maternity) in West Africa and places where health capacity data is poorly defined. I’m looking forward to engaging to identify priority user stories and learn from this community.
Most recently the project has been funded as a Global Good through through Digital Square. Here is a post describing our recent pilot in Senegal.
Mark
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Hi everyone. I am @bede. Quality Assurance Engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. I am excited to be working for an organisation that builds apps and systems to save lives, rather than toys for rich kids.
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Hi all! My name is Bernard Kagondu. I work at Medic Mobile as a Project Tech Lead based in our Nairobi hub. My day to day involves working with the CHT.
Looking forward to the discussions here as we build health systems together!
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Hi all, I am Samuel Mbuthia, Capacity Building Manager at Medic Mobile and based in Nairobi, Kenya. I relish the concept of open source, and open source in community health is a winner. 
It has been an amazing experience watching this community grow. I look forward to seeing more great things from this wonderful community.
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Hello everyone,
My name is Elijah and I’m part of the technical team at Medic. I’m excited to be working with an open community on a mission that is paramount to humanity. Being open unlocks key collaboration opportunities and keeps us grounded with our collective experiences.
Let’s share!
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This sounds really cool @markherringer, thanks for sharing. It’s good to hear that human-centered design is part of your agenda–you might’ve come across our paper about HCD playing an important role in the CHT community. More recently we’ve been exploring opportunities for new geospatial projects as part of our R&D efforts with Medic Labs. I’m going to read up about healthsites.io and it would be good to stay in touch and see what we can learn from your work.
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Hi Everyone, My Name is Michael Korir a Project Manager working with Medic Mobile. I am very excited to be part of this great team as I coordinate the different project teams to ensure that we deliver the best user friendly tool that reaches everyone and improve the quality of lives through health care coordination.
I am passionate and have experience in deployment of the CHT to the end users so I am here to share the experience and skills gained over time. Working with CHW(V)s is the best fulfillment I have had so far.
I love adventure and making friends and I am sure to make more friends on this forum.
Thanks
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I lived several years in St. Louis and my parents live there. So I can easily recognize the dots on your map which is great. It would be nice if we could have a discussion about the next steps of this pilot or even discuss the ecosystem of ehealth in Senegal.
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Hello CHT Community. I am delighted to join the conversation, based out of Kampala, where I lead Partnerships and Relationships at Medic Mobile.
I am involved in conversations around securing the CHT as a national and public good in Uganda, supporting interoperability with existing national systems, and partners using the tools - BRAC and Living Goods.
When am not at work, I am coaching and mentoring young people in the areas of personal and leadership development; playing guitar, cooking or attempting to summit a mountain. I also love to travel, and blog.
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Hello fellow community members.
I am Simon Mbae (@simon), a Partnerships Manager at Medic Mobile based in Nairobi Kenya. In my role I contribute in building partnerships (implementer and governments) towards the adoption, adaptation, and implementation of the CHT as a critical component in the path to the realization of universal health coverage. Also, I support our partners in maximizing not only the awesome features and functionality of technology, but also other complementary initiatives around innovation, research, data science among others.
During my free time, I enjoy travelling, farming, hanging out with friends and family.
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Hello Everyone, I’m @enock, a Partnership Specialist at Medic Mobile; based in Nairobi - Kenya. I am committed to building Pan-African digital health innovations that impact social change by creating channels for underserved populations to access quality health care and lead dignified lives.
Happy to be part of this forum where We are all Health Workers!
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