Africa’s Digital Health Revolution: The Digital Fit-Viability Model to Move From Innovation to Scaled Implementation

Afra Jiwa   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc, MBBS ;   Antony Ngatia   ^{3 *} , MSc, MBChB ;   Karim Benali   ⁴ , MS, MD ;   Niclas Boehmer   ⁵ , PhD ;   Sangu Delle   ⁶ , MBA, JD, PhD ;   Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi   ⁷ , PhD ;   Chris Opoku Fofie   ⁸ , MD, FGCS, MPH ;   Christine M O’Brien   ⁹ , BS, PhD ;   Tobi Olatunji   ¹⁰ , MSc, MBBS ;   Kate Obayabgona   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Milind Tambe   ¹¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Richard Ribon Fletcher   ¹² , BS, MS, PhD ;   Adeline Adwoa Boatin   ^{1, 13 *} , MPH, MD ;   Bethany Hedt-Gauthier   ^{1, 14, 15 *} , PhD

¹ Program for Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

² Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

³ Statsspeak Analytics, Nairobi, Kenya

⁴ Global Health and Service Advisory Council, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Postdam, Germany

⁶ CarePoint, Accra, Ghana

⁷ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

⁹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, United States

¹⁰ Intron Health, London, United Kingdom

¹¹ Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard John a. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Boston, MA, United States

¹² Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States

¹³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁴ Department of Maternal Child Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

¹⁵ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally