The Digital Health Africa Conference (DHA-2024) has successfully showcased progress in digital health, telemedicine, precision medicine, real-world evidence, pharmacometrics and artificial intelligence and how these can advance healthcare delivery across Africa.

Our second Digital Health Africa Conference, DHA-2025, will provide further practical insights in the potential applications of digital technologies, using maternal and child health, major unique challenges of medicine in Africa, as important examples. Topics of interest will include patient registries, safety signals, vaccine use in pregnancy/breastfeeding, labelling of vaccines in pregnancy, emerging infections and antibiotic resistance, telemedicine, pharmacometric modelling, precision medicine, medicines regulation, ethical and legal aspects, and capability enhancement.

Applying an integrated multi-site face-to-face and remote format, this hybrid Conference will use digital tools to allow delegates and speakers from three different regions, South Africa, Uganda and Germany, as well as fully virtual participants to engage with one another. This will offer a nexus for collaboration and networking to promote partnerships among local and international stakeholders as well as capacity building for young scientists. Delegates will have the opportunity to engage with experts from industry, academia, healthcare providers, government and regulatory agencies as well as patient representatives to learn from one another and to gain valuable insights into the latest trends and best practices in digital health.

To achieve sustainable outcomes, the format of the Conference will offer researchers/clinicians, academic and institutional stakeholders the opportunity to establish new initiatives dedicated to maternal/child health and to form long-lasting practical networks for implementation.