EpiAFRIC hosts 6th Health-meets-Tech Hackathon

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EPIAFRIC is to host the 6th Health-meets-Tech Hackathon, an initiative designed to build an ecosystem of health and tech practitioners with the aim of designing and deploying contextually relevant tech solutions across Africa.

This year’s Hackathon, a two-day hybrid event (both virtual and physical), with the theme “Navigating Healthcare post-COVID-19” is to emphasis on developing tech solutions, particularly to improve both population health and clinical care in the post-COVID-19 era.

Chief Executive Officer, EpiAFRIC, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor declared: “This year promises to be epic as we would be expecting the teams to come up with disruptive ideas on how technology can be used to accelerate and provide better healthcare services especially as we gradually begin to live in a post-COVID-19 world”.

Acting Chief Executive Officer, TY Danjuma Foundation, Gima Forje stated that “Although we are not yet out of the pandemic – we would be looking out for innovative projects that would help us bring to the forefront of the needs that are cost effective and cater to the needs of these challenging times.”

Country Director, Pathfinder International, Dr. Amina Dorayi, declared that technology was a common denominator that facilitates the work in the post-pandemic world and the Health-Meets-Tech hackathon will provide an opportunity for health and tech practitioners to come together to create tech solutions for health service delivery and logistics management.

According to her, “there are possibilities that the hackathon will present to us in Nigeria and we look forward to innovations that will address the challenges of health access, quality and outcomes of care especially for women and young people.”

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