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Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho is a pediatrician, former Minister of Health of Rwanda, Senior Lecturer at Harvard University, Advisor to the Director-General of the WHO, and co-founder of the University of Global Health Equity.
She joins us today to talk about the role of technology in the remarkable transformation of Rwanda’s health system post-genocide.
What are the failed promises of health technology? How has data been a North Star to her work? And what does it take to show the world that Rwanda today stands for truth?
Highlights
- (02m59s) - When health data is held hostage
- (04m21s) - HIV is a curse that ushered in the era of electronic medical records
- (10m06s) - How epidemiological data supports effective health systems governance
- (16m10s) - Using Twitter to take a stand
- (20m54s) - Whose data do you trust?
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