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1 04, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: CSO Activism and its Complementary Role in Regulations Around Health Data Protection in Africa

By Maurice Kabazzi Lwanga| 2025-04-13T10:03:03+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: Africa, AU Malabo Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, CSO activism, digital health protection laws, health, heath data protection, law, technology|1 Comment

Maurice Kabazzi Lwanga, Human Rights Practitioner and Lawyer, Afya na Haki Institute The adoption of the AU Malabo Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection in 2014 marked a significant turning point for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Africa, galvanising their efforts in advocating for data protection across various sectors, including health. As digital health initiatives [...]

1 04, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Dispensing Drugs and the Appification of Everyday ‘Health’ in Kenya

By Joy Malala| 2025-04-13T10:02:09+00:00 April 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: appification, dispensing drugs, e-pharmacy, everyday health, health, Kenya, law, technology|0 Comments

Joy Malala, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick Introduction Digitalisation helps solve health system problems, especially in Africa. Digital infrastructure and smartphone use can improve healthcare access and equity. Governments are investing in universal health coverage and digital health initiatives to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes. Policies and strategies are evolving to enable and prioritise digital [...]

12 02, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Digital health governance in East Africa: The actors and peddlars

By Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa| 2025-02-12T11:00:21+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: actors, digital health governance, East Africa, health, law, peddlars, technology|0 Comments

Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Lawyer and PhD Student, School for Cross-faculty Studies, University of Warwick Digital health governance is pivotal in ensuring that developers, innovators and implementers of Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) in healthcare provision utilise them in an ethical and efficient manner and that patients’ needs and rights are not displaced by profit driven motives. Countries in [...]

12 02, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Realising participation in health data infrastructures: What gets in the way?

By Amrita Nanda and Rattanmeek Kaur| 2025-02-12T11:04:56+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.|Tags: barriers, good practice, health, health data infrastructures, law, participatory data governance, technology|2 Comments

Amrita Nanda (Senior Manager, Aapti Institute) and Rattanmeek Kaur (Senior Research Analyst, Aapti Institute) What are health data infrastructures? The increased availability of high-quality health data and health-related data, has resulted in a growing impetus to develop data infrastructure for health care and research. Concerted efforts are being made to develop networks of interoperable and [...]

23 01, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Navigating the ethical tightrope in healthcare: Balancing AI and the monetization of health data

By Stuart Ssebibubbu| 2025-01-23T13:28:37+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: AI, ethical tightrope, health, heath data, law, monetization, technology|0 Comments

Stuart Ssebibubbu, Research Officer, Afya na Haki Artificial intelligence (AI) integration in healthcare holds immense promise, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The healthcare industry is on the brink of a transformative era, thanks to the advent of AI. This shift brings new solutions that have the potential to significantly improve patient care, simplify diagnostics, and enhance treatment procedures. [...]

23 01, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: Data bias and the risk of algorithmic apartheid in South African healthcare

By Johannes Machinya| 2025-01-23T13:22:29+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: algorithmic apartheid, Data bias, health, law, South African healthcare, technology|0 Comments

Johannes Machinya, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand The South African healthcare landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by rapid technological advancements, as evidenced by the rise of the “digital nurse,” reflecting the growing integration of digital technologies into the nursing profession. The concept of the digital nurse refers to nurses who develop expertise [...]

15 01, 2025

Blog series on exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: AI in Healthcare (Part 2/2): Inclusive Strategies for Equitable Implementation in the UK

By Esperanza Miyake, Yureshya Perera and Sharifah Sekalala| 2025-01-15T15:05:24+00:00 January 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, equitable implementation, equity, health, healthcare, inclusion, inclusive strategies, intersections, law, technology|0 Comments

Esperanza Miyake, Yureshya Perera and Sharifah Sekalala As the race for AI technology intensifies within the Global North, the UK has not taken a backseat. Research in AI and its implementation have spread into sectors such as finance, healthcare, education, and security. Our first roundtable blog, titled “AI in Healthcare (Part 1/2): Unveiling the Risks [...]

15 01, 2025

Blog Series on Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law: AI in Healthcare (Part 1/2): Unveiling the Risks for Marginalised Populations

By Esperanza Miyake, Yureshya Perera and Sharifah Sekalala| 2025-01-15T15:06:46+00:00 January 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, health, health inequalities, healthcare, intersections, law, marginalised communities, technology|0 Comments

Esperanza Miyake, Yureshya Perera and Sharifah Sekalala Artificial intelligence (AI), an area with growing interest and often harped as the solution for many issues, has made significant inroads into national healthcare systems over the past decade. AI holds power to positively impact healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes. However, there are growing concerns around the [...]

15 01, 2025

NEW BLOG SERIES: Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law

By Sharifah Sekalala and Yureshya Perera| 2025-01-15T14:40:08+00:00 January 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law|Tags: health, intersections, law, technology|0 Comments

Introduction to the blog series 'Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Health, and Law’ The rise of digital health surveillance during the Covid-19 pandemic, and more recently, through the scaling up of AI applications in healthcare, has revolutionised the provision of digital health services. These services are being provided through health information technologies such as wearable [...]

27 09, 2023

The Cost of Eating: Contemporary Challenges to the Realisation of the Right to Food in the UK

By Katie Morris| 2023-09-27T09:01:00+00:00 September 27th, 2023|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: cost of living, food security, health, ICESCR|0 Comments

Katie Morris, PhD Student at Durham University The current cost-of-living crisis is posing a severe threat to UK household food security. A culmination of factors, including post-Brexit trade barriers, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and poor crop yields associated with climate change, saw the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages within the state increase by 19.1% [...]