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Venture Spotlight: HealthEdu Ltd.

HealthEdu aims to confront the pressing need for a unified, easily accessible platform catering to the educational needs of healthcare professionals. HealthEdu creates a supportive community wherein practitioners, health organizations, and academic institutions converge to exchange insights, glean best practices, and collectively elevate standards of care.  

Venture Spotlight: Bare Mind Holdings

Bare Mind Holdings is addressing stigma and associated barriers by providing accessible, culturally relevant and personalized mental health resources. The venture leverages and combines cutting-edge technology and innovative approaches to provide personalized self-development programs tailored to the African context.

Venture Spotlight: ChuChu Softies

ChuChu Softies was created to curb the problem of period poverty by creating eco-friendly and reusable sanitary pads that are affordable and accessible to girls and women.

Venture Spotlight: Rocket Health

Rocket Health provides a digital solution that centralizes different health care solutions into one place. This is done through a 24-hour contact centre that enables patients to consult with doctors remotely, at any time of the day or night, and from anywhere across the country.

Photo of Rhoda Akuol Philip

, MPP, BCom

Regional Lead (Health Entrepreneurship), International Research Officer

Office of the Vice-President International, University of Toronto

Photo of Patrick Kerre

, PhD

Dean, School of Public Health

Moi University

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Rhoda Akuol Philip, MPP, BCom

Regional Lead (Health Entrepreneurship), International Research Officer

Office of the Vice-President International

Rhoda Akuol currently serves as a Africa Regional Lead Research Officer, supporting partnership engagement, and research collaboration, as well as monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptation. She is a central liaison for the Health Entrepreneurship (HENT) Pillar of the Africa Health Collaborative. HENT seeks to co-create and sustain entrepreneurial ecosystems, and launch scalable, impactful, and contextually relevant health start-ups that offer sustainable healthcare solutions. 

Rhoda Akuol has previously held various research, entrepreneurship, and business analyst roles within different work environments and cultures, including at start-up companies, non-profit organizations, and academic departments. She is passionate about community advocacy and sits on various advisory boards, including the Pan-Canadian Voice for Women’s Housing (PCVWH).

Rhoda Akuol received the African Scholars’ Social Innovation Award 2021, and the EYOB G. NAIZGHI Female Refugee Leadership Award 2019.

Email Address
rhoda.philip@utoronto.ca
Profile Type
Staff
Country
Canada
Program
Africa Secretariat
Governance
HENT Pillar Advisory Committee
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Patrick Kerre, PhD

Dean, School of Public Health

Moi University

Email Address
kerrepatrick@gmail.com
Profile Type
Faculty
Country
Kenya
Governance
Executive Steering Committee