What's next?
The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship is a community of global health enthusiasts, clinical professionals, technologists, diaspreneurs, creatives, policy makers and impact investors solving problems in Public Health across Africa.
This was originally achieved by (1) supporting policy development via fellowship programmes, and (2) by supporting people to develop innovative technology solutions via hackathon events [The African Healthcare Challenge] and regular community meetups [The Global Health Cafe].
The African Healthcare Challenge
After a kick-off event on Friday evening, teams have till Sunday afternoon to work on the problem/challenge that a real-life African healthcare business had shared. The team that presented the best solution on the Sunday afternoon, as determined by our expert judges, won the weekend competition and challenge prize.
2016 was the first ever African healthcare (Challenge) ‘Hackathon’ at Google Campus London, launched with support from the World Economic Forum Global Shapers [London].
Our goal is a robust portfolio of growth technologies that will lead the development of African Health systems over the next 30 years. By 2035, we hope to have helped over 150 individuals build companies with a total valuation of over £10m.
The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship - King’s Sierra Leone Chapter, in partnership with West African Agribusiness (delivered Q4 2017)
As The Ministry of Health and Sanitation for Sierra Leone moves to a post-Ebola climate, it recognises the benefit of drawing upon highly-talented young Diaspora and Sierra Leoneans as a sustainable vehicle for the problem-solving of its healthcare challenges.
Principally working with and through The Ministry of Health and Sanitation, The Kopfadeyemi Fellowship has been welcomed to help shed light on how healthcare policies can be truly effective, under an approach that is grounded in the realities of Sierra Leone.
It is essential to the healthy functioning of West African healthcare systems that there is a generous supply of leaders who have an understanding – gained first hand – of the challenges that their Ministry of Health faces.
Africa produces a great number of skilled professionals, but too few of these talented intellectuals provide their societies with leadership and guidance in health policy. Surely the raw material is there.
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The Global Health Cafe
The Global Health community in Britain is growing and those with a passion for Africa are increasingly seeking to amplify their voice and ability to remedy these problems. There is a sizeable community of Africans outside of Africa and they too have a role to play in ‘African-led’ approaches.
Regular Global Health Café meet-ups take place in Westminster, London. Here, enthusiasts come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to meet and discuss Global Health issues, with a view to stimulate progressive dialogue that can inform innovation, health policy, evaluation and practise.
The Global Health Café series is an African-led platform, with focus on health in Africa, importantly so because, despite progress Africa continues to carry the heaviest burden of global disease.
Global Health Jobs
Global Health Jobs is the specialist job resource for special people – www.globalhealthjobs.com
The best jobs in Global Health have never been in one place, till now.
The best jobs in Global Health were scattered around the place, creating the challenge of the right people being able to find them. This simple platform is trying to address this by bringing the world’s best professionals, and the world ‘s best Global Health organisations, to one place.
If you’re looking for a job, we can connect you with some incredible Global Health organisations. Need to hire good people? We’re getting connected with thousands of special people. Let us introduce you.
No matter what, we can help you get where you want to go in Global Health.
www.globalhealthjobs.com
Global Health Works
Coming Soon…
It’s all exciting stuff. And you can be part of it.
The African Healthcare Challenge
What is the idea?
Typically, a hackathon (a hacker buzzword) is an event where teams of computer programmers collaborate and compete against each other to come up with the best solutions to a defined problem in a very short time frame (~24-72 hours). We instead, are having people (not just computer programmers) compete over the weekend (Feb 26th – 28th) to come up with solutions for African healthcare initiatives. After a Friday evening kick-off event, teams will have the weekend to work on a challenge that the African healthcare business/organisation faces. The team that presents the best solution as determined by expert judges will win the challenge prize and potential seed-funding money.
This will be more than simply a weekend event or a ‘fun’ competition. It is a process that begins with problem definition, continues through rapid prototyping of solutions, and culminates in working with top-class experts (e.g., King’s College London, Chatham House) to create sustainable solutions, together, with our African friends and colleagues.
Visit www.ahhack.com to find out more or drop us an email if you would like to get involved
The Kopfadeyemi Insights Library
Typically, a hackathon (a hacker buzzword) is an event where teams of computer programmers collaborate and compete against each other to come up with the best solutions to a defined problem in a very short time frame (~24-72 hours). We instead, are having people (not just computer programmers) compete over the weekend (Feb 26th – 28th) to come up with solutions for African healthcare initiatives. After a Friday evening kick-off event, teams will have the weekend to work on a challenge that the African healthcare business/organisation faces. The team that presents the best solution as determined by expert judges will win the challenge prize and potential seed-funding money.
This will be more than simply a weekend event or a ‘fun’ competition. It is a process that begins with problem definition, continues through rapid prototyping of solutions, and culminates in working with top-class experts (e.g., King’s College London, Chatham House) to create sustainable solutions, together, with our African friends and colleagues.