2nd September 2013
Healthcare resources harmonization is critical:
How Do We Achieve It?
Mobile Monday, or MoMo, is an open global network of mobile industry professionals,
visionaries, developers and entrepreneurs, in over 100 cities worldwide. MoMo Kampala was
created to discuss the needs of local communities, through the convening of regular fora,
exploring how needs may be more effectively met through mobile applications, in conjunction
with the work of developer entrepreneurs.
Uganda has been called the “perfect storm” for aid. In the past decade the number of health
and development initiatives (public, private, social entrepreneurial, NGO, etc) has
skyrocketed. There are over 10,000 NGOs in Uganda. The expansion of projects within the
mHealth sector alone was so rapid and uncoordinated that the Ministry of Health was
compelled to issue a moratorium on mHealth/eHealth projects until systems for
harmonization between the tech and health sectors could be put into place.
Lack of harmonization (i.e. coordination, transparency, & focus on comparative advantage)
among global health efforts is a major obstacle to project impact, sustainability, and scale.
Harmonization of existing resources (evidence, work force, technology, and funding) is often
overshadowed by calls for more resources and new “innovations. Our distinguished panel of
speakers will attempt to light up the landscape, explore the issues, discussways of moving
forward to avoid similar problems in future, and stimulate and provoke delegates to suggest
solutions or help answer the question, “Where do we go from here and how do we get there?”
Speakers Panel:
Chair Lisa Kienzle, Mobile Financial Services Program Director Grameen Foundation AppLab
Dr Michael Lipnick, Co-founder of the GlobalHealthHub.org and Global Partners in Anesthesia
and Surgery
Dr Simeon Kalyesubula-Kibuuka, Monitoring & Evaluation Strategic Communication
Specialist for the East African Public Health Laboratory
Dr Davis Musinguzi, Medical mobile apps concept developer. Systems Strengthening
Consultant with the UNICEF Alive T4D team
Programme:
5:30 - 6:00 Delegates arrive, informal networking
6:00 – 6:10
Introduction of Chair, Speakers
6:15 – 7:10
Speakers presentations
7:10 – 7:50
Q&A, Comments, discussions with speakers, delegates
7:50 – 8:00
Recognition of hosts, sponsors, announcements, future events
8:00 – 8:45
Informal networking
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Presentation Descriptions with Brief Bios of Chair, Moderator & Speakers
Lisa Kienzle, Mobile Financial Services Program Director Grameen Foundation AppLab
Lisa is the Mobile Financial Services Program Director for the
Grameen Foundation AppLab in Uganda, where she works with
banks and telcos to develop new financial services to serve the
rural poor. Before joining AppLab she was the Director of
Branchless Banking for MAP International, a mobile money and
branchless banking infrastructure provider, and a consultant for
services in South Asia. Previously she was a strategy consultant at
Marakon Associates and an investment banker at Lehman
Brothers. Lisa received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Keynote Dr Michael Lipnick, Co-founder of the GlobalHealthHub.org and Global Partners in
ANesthesia and Surgery
Dr. Michael Lipnick is a co-founder of the GlobalHealthHub.org and
Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery (GPAS). He is a graduate
of the University of California at San Francisco Medical School and
trained in internal medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston, MA. He is completing additional training in
anesthesiology and critical care at UCSF. Since 2007 Michael has
spent significant time each year working in Uganda on public health
projects with a focus on perioperative and trauma care in lowincome countries.
Through his work at the Global Health Hub he has become focused
on exploring strategies to promote harmonization among existing
public health and technology efforts.
@mlipnick @GHhub
Dr Simeon Kalyesubula-Kibuuka, Monitoring & Evaluation Strategic Communication
Specialist for the East African Public Health Laboratory
Dr Simeon Kalyesubula-Kibuuka is an Monitoring & Evaluation and
Strategic Communication Specialist for the East African Public Health
Laboratory networking project of the Ministry of Health (EAPHLNP).
He holds Bachelors in Surgery and Medicine from Makerere, Post
graduate Diploma in International Health and a Masters in Public
Health. He has served in several capacities, six years as a clinician
in a Primary Health Care setting, five years as a Public Health
Physician in a decentralised setting and eight as a Public Health
Physician at the national level with international exposure. Since
January 2011, on a regional World Bank funded project, that intends
to establish a network of 32 high quality, accessible and efficient
Public health Laboratories in the five East African Community
member states, for diagnosis and surveillance of communicable
diseases.Disease Institute - Makerere College of Health Sciences as Monitoring and Evaluation
Specialist (2010-2011), and Currently World Health Organization/Ministry of Health-Resource
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Centre as National Professional Officer/Statistician.
Dr Davis Musinguzi, Medical mobile apps concept developer. Systems Strengthening
Consultant with the UNICEF Alive T4D team
Davis Musinguzi is a Medical Doctor and a medical mobile apps
concept developer. He is currently a Health Systems Strengthening
Consultant with the UNICEF Alive T4D team providing technical and
field support to the digitising Uganda's Health Management
Information Systems, with a single minded focus on mHealth
initiatives, Davis is working on a project called mTrac, one of the
world's few countrywide mHealth projects. mTrac is a mobile based
platform for real time monitoring of Disease Surveillance, Drug Stock
and Health Service Delivery. Davis is also the Managing Director of
the Medical Concierge Group..
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