AI & digital health in underserved communities

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL HEALTH

Break out of your bubble.

The podcast that shares stories from people doing AI and digital health in low-resourced settings, because health inequalities are everywhere and the lessons travel.

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The Show

The perspectives of those innovating in underserved settings are sorely missing from digital health.

The dominant narrative in digital health flows outward from the Global North. But the unmet need, and the extraordinary work being done to meet it, exists everywhere. GPODH exists to change that. The show brings together clinicians, founders, researchers, and policy makers who are doing real work in digital health in contexts that rarely make it onto the main stage.

Every episode asks a version of the same question: what does it actually take to make digital health work for the communities that need it most?

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VISIBILITY

Who is actually building digital health tools in low-resource settings, and what does their work look like?

LEARNING

What can high-income country health systems learn from the ingenuity and constraint-led innovation happening elsewhere?

THE BIG PICTURE

How do we build a more equitable global digital health ecosystem, and who needs to be in the room?

Dr Shubs Upadhyay

Your host

Dr Shubs Upadhyay

Physician and digital health strategist. He started GPODH because the conversations he was having privately deserved a much wider audience.

Shubs interviewing a guest at HLTH Conference
Dr Shubs Upadhyay

Your Host

Dr Shubs Upadhyay

Shubs is a physician, digital health strategist, and the founder of this podcast. He trained in medicine in the UK and has spent the past decade working at the intersection of clinical practice, health technology, and global health systems.

His consulting work takes him across health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. He has advised health ministries, large NGOs, digital health startups, and institutional investors on strategy, evidence, and implementation.

He started GPODH because the conversations he was having privately deserved a much wider audience. He noticed that the same founders, the same researchers, the same clinicians kept saying the same thing: nobody is talking about this publicly, and nobody outside our region seems to care.

This podcast is his attempt to fix that.

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Shubs Upadhyay interviewing a guest at HLTH Conference

In the room

Getting the conversations that never make it onto the main stage.

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Who listens

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Clinicians

Curious about digital health beyond your own system

PhysiciansNursesAllied Health

Digital Health

Building tools for or entering emerging markets

FoundersProductConsultants

Global Health

Navigating digital transformation on the ground

NGOsPolicyResearchers

Funders

Tracking where health tech is heading in emerging markets

InvestorsPhilanthropyDevelopment Funds

What listeners say

It is so valuable to hear insights from people who have already gone through similar challenges.

This perspective is sorely missing from our industry, so glad you are doing this.

No-one else talks about this topic with this level of depth and engagement.

Insights in motion

Stories from across the globe

Some of the most important ideas in digital health exist in places the industry rarely looks.

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Guests represent organisations including

World Health Organization
Johns Hopkins University
Yale University
LSHTM
ICRC
PATH
Geneva Digital Health Hub
Digital Medicine Society
FIND
Khushi Baby
YLabs
Audere
Hardian Health
TechChange
Global Strategies
University of São Paulo
TU Dresden
The Luke Commission
World Health Organization
Johns Hopkins University
Yale University
LSHTM
ICRC
PATH
Geneva Digital Health Hub
Digital Medicine Society
FIND
Khushi Baby
YLabs
Audere
Hardian Health
TechChange
Global Strategies
University of São Paulo
TU Dresden
The Luke Commission

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