Next week during the UN General Assembly’s high-level meetings, a new topic will take center stage: inclusive and accountable governance of artificial intelligence (AI).
Ethics will be central to deploying responsible AI for health. To ensure a successful adaptation in Africa, Dino Rech of the global health nonprofit Audere advises that AI’s progress should not only be measured by rollout speed but by how it protects patient privacy and solves the daily problems people face.
Continuing the conversation, Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Sharmishta Sivaramakrishnan explains how Singapore’s engagement with Africa is one of reciprocal learning. Singapore’s capital and health system design experience can complement Africa’s entrepreneurial drive to build sustainable AI models for health-care delivery.
This edition pivots to financing for global health. As major funders, including the United States and European countries, scale back support for multilateral agencies, the world needs new financing strategies—ones that prioritize health production and invest in people-centered systems rooted in equity to maintain progress toward universal health coverage, say Neeraj Jain of the international global health nonprofit PATH and Githinji Gitahi of the Kenya-based health-care nongovernmental organization Amref Health Africa.
To round off, TGH Research Associate Alejandra Martinez interviews former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden on his new book, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own.
Until next week!—Nsikan Akpan, Managing Editor, and Caroline Kantis, Associate Editor
