Global Perspectives on Digital Health

🌍 Global Perspectives on Digital HealthA podcast unpacking the stories, insights, and innovation shaping health systems and underserved communities.🎧 Listen on Apple, Spotify. Watch on YouTube

Global Perspectives on Digital Health is a technology podcast hosted by Shubs Upadhyay, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Shubs Upadhyay hosts Global Perspectives on Digital Health, a technology show with 28 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  Enhancing newborn care in rural Eastern Congo. How a tool built alongside nurses changed everything

  Apr 7, 20261h 9mS0

  <p><br>The most vulnerable moment in any human life is the first few hours. In this episode, Shubs talks with Dr. Josh Bress, pediatrician, President of Global Strategies and Medical Director of NoviGuide, a tool used nearly half a million times to help nurses in remote facilities across Africa manage critical newborn care. Josh shares his experiences and stories from Eastern Congo, why paper guidelines fail at the bedside, how configuration (not customization) is the key to scaling, what it actually looks like to delight frontline health workers, and what's kept his team going through 15 years of building at...

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  Episode #25

  How to develop AI that addresses health inequities

  Mar 19, 20261h 1mS0

  <p><br>Joe Alderman has this great ability to break down complex things into a good hearty discussion. Joe is an Anaesthetist by night and AI academic by day. His insights on what it takes to deploy and monitor AI in healthcare with a lens on not leaving people behind are relevant wherever in the world you are.</p><p><br></p><p>We discussed some of the nuance and challenges around AI in healthcare, as well as some anti patterns </p><p><br></p>If you are a data or AI scientist, or shipping AI products, what can you d...

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  Episode #24

  Digital innovation in humanitarian settings

  Feb 17, 202659 minS0

  <p>How do global organizations built to respond and aid in conflict respond to digital transformation? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) : you’re probably familiar with the work that happens here : emergencies, conflict zones, disasters, working at the last mile in difficult circumstances. How does an organization like even begin to approach “tech innovation” There’s clearly lots of need.</p><p><br></p><p>What do you prioritize when everyone needs improvements now? </p><p><br></p><p>PLUS How do you adapt off the shelf LLM models for remote humanitarian contexts?</p><p><br></p><p>Javier...

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  Episode #23

  USAID cuts, women's health and leading the right way

  Jan 28, 20261h 7mS0

  <p>At the end of last year I got the chance to record the first episode of the show in an actual studio. Still a lot to learn about this versus virtually, but Patty Mecheal was a gracious and very awesome guest. </p><p><br></p><p>Patty, CEO of healthenabled brings nearly three decades of mHealth and digital health experience into this discussion we recorded during the Global Digital Health Forum in Nairobi in December 2025.  </p><p>After a tumultuous year of policy shifts with USAID funding, WHO shifts and the cascading challenges globally, our conversation examines how we go...

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  Episode #22

  Why displaced people need a digital identitiy

  Jan 14, 202650 minS0

  <p><br>I sat down to talk to Nadia Kadhim, co-founder of Naq about digital identity and healthcare for displaced people. </p><p><br></p><p>Nadia’s father was a refugee, and we hear about her journey into human rights law and eventually into data security and compliance. </p><p><br></p><p>We cover:</p>That digital identity for displaced people is messed up. How this creates very real barriers to care (with examples)How healthcare systems aren’t set up for real access or meaningful care for refugeesCan we even do anything about this when political agenda in many...

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