Tom Achoki

About the Author:

Tom Achoki MD, PhD is active in health care entrepreneurship, innovation and research with a specific focus on digital health and data analytics. He co-founded Mass Sciences, an integrated data analytics company based in the United States, and the Africa Institute for Health Policy Foundation, a research think-thank based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously a Sloan Fellow at M.I.T, where his research focused on the role of data as a driver of innovation in the healthcare industry. He can be reached at: [email protected].

A health worker collects a swab sample from a young girl during free mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Governance

COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call to Africa for Investing in Responsive and Resilient Health-Care Systems

by Tom Achoki

How COVID-19 is highlighting the importance of investing in countries' health-care systems

Migrant workers protect themselves from heat as they wait to board a train to their home state of eastern Bihar, at the end of the coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India, on May 21, 2020. The image shows two men sharing a yellow scarf. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Poverty

Bridging the Data Divide in COVID-19

by Tom Achoki

Collaborative health data networks and open access would give boundless opportunities to advance disease surveillance