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Our global team works at the front lines of digital global health. Learn more about

our programs, insights, reflections, and experiences in our blog.

CEO transition & our ongoing commitment to high-quality healthcare for all

Erica Layer

Dec 16, 2021
2 min

CEO transition & our ongoing commitment to high-quality healthcare for all

Dear Colleagues, Eight years ago, Marc Mitchell, D-tree’s Founder and visionary leader, took a chance and hired me to join D-tree as a...

How Zanzibar Built a Health System Fit for the Digital Age

David Hershberg

Nov 30, 2021
4 min

How Zanzibar Built a Health System Fit for the Digital Age

Learn how Zanzibar built a health system fit for the digital age.

How Government Ownership Helps Digital Health Programs Scale

Rachel Hofmann

Nov 22, 2021
3 min

How Government Ownership Helps Digital Health Programs Scale

Learn how Zanzibar's government led the design and implementation of Jamii ni Afya at full national scale.

Using Digital Technology to Deliver Health for All in Zanzibar

Erica Layer

Nov 16, 2021
3 min

Using Digital Technology to Deliver Health for All in Zanzibar

Learn how Zanzibar's Ministry of Health launched one of the world's first digital community health programs to reach full national scale.

How Community Digital Health Systems Can Enhance an Epidemic Response

Gloria Kahamba

Sep 28, 2021
3 min

How Community Digital Health Systems Can Enhance an Epidemic Response

Learn three ways that digital community health systems, like Afya-Tek, can help enhance an epidemic response.

Three Partnerships Help Jamii ni Afya Scale up

Erica Layer

Jul 7, 2021
3 min

Three Partnerships Help Jamii ni Afya Scale up

Despite the challenges that health systems and communities have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry...

D-tree joins Community Health Impact Coalition

Erica Layer

Jul 6, 2021
3 min

D-tree joins Community Health Impact Coalition

Since 2010, we have been working with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health to improve maternal, newborn, and...

Tracey Li

May 24, 2021
6 min

Data as a Global Good

Technological advances over the past two decades have led to an explosion in the amount of data that is produced and collected all over...

Tracey Li

Apr 19, 2021
5 min

Machine Learning for Personalized Care

How can we personalize health services so that clients receive the care that they, as individuals, need? At D-tree, this question has...

DelphiCare: A Comprehensive Digital System for Pediatric HIV Care

Stefanie Kot

Jan 11, 2021
4 min

DelphiCare: A Comprehensive Digital System for Pediatric HIV Care

As countries worldwide work to combat the HIV epidemic, the diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV continue to present significant...

Afya-Tek, a people-centered digital referral system: Strategies for success

Lena Kan

Dec 10, 2020
4 min

Afya-Tek, a people-centered digital referral system: Strategies for success

Since its launch in August of 2020, Afya-Tek, a fully digitized and people-centered primary healthcare referral system, has already begun...

D-tree launches digitized referral system, Afya-Tek, in Tanzania

Lena Kan

Dec 3, 2020
3 min

D-tree launches digitized referral system, Afya-Tek, in Tanzania

In August 2020, D-tree and a consortium of partners launched the Afya-Tek digital system in Kibaha, Tanzania. Afya-Tek strengthens the...

Digital Spark #5: Implementing responsive digital health systems: Lessons from COVID-19

Erica Layer

Jul 30, 2020
8 min

Digital Spark #5: Implementing responsive digital health systems: Lessons from COVID-19

In early 2020, when COVID-19 emerged as a global pandemic and urgent public health crisis, countries all over the world scrambled to...

Digital Spark #4: Ensuring data protection and privacy

Heiko Hornung

Jul 23, 2020
9 min

Digital Spark #4: Ensuring data protection and privacy

The field of digital health is rapidly changing. As we begin seeing more and more rollouts of national-scale digital health programs...

Digital Spark #3: Embracing collaboration to achieve sustainable health system transformation

David Hershberg

Jul 16, 2020
7 min

Digital Spark #3: Embracing collaboration to achieve sustainable health system transformation

To achieve their fullest potential and truly help transform health systems, digital health programs require collaboration and partnership...

Digital Spark #2: Employing a health systems strengthening approach

Rachel Hofmann

Jul 9, 2020
9 min

Digital Spark #2: Employing a health systems strengthening approach

Over the past 20 years, the world has made incredible progress. Since the year 2000, over a billion people have risen out of extreme...

Digital Spark #1: Setting digital health apart

Taylor Craig

Jul 2, 2020
8 min

Digital Spark #1: Setting digital health apart

Lela carries her 6-year-old son, Khari, to the health center for the fourth time this month. His fever keeps returning and, although he...

Erica Layer

Jun 25, 2020
4 min

Introducing: The Digital Spark Series

One year ago today, I woke up to the news that Marc Mitchell, D-tree’s founder and digital health pioneer, had died suddenly and...

Errors in estimated delivery dates: explanation, impact, and a path forward

Isabel Fulcher

Feb 26, 2020
3 min

Errors in estimated delivery dates: explanation, impact, and a path forward

Imagine you were told you would deliver your baby on November 19, but you go into labor on October 19 – a full month before you...

Introducing Jamii ni Afya: Zanzibar’s national digital health program for Universal Coverage

Taylor Craig

Feb 19, 2020
8 min

Introducing Jamii ni Afya: Zanzibar’s national digital health program for Universal Coverage

This month, the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health (MOH), together with the local government authority, launched...