Simpa Dania

Dr Simpa DANIA is a digital health thought leader and digital health consultant. His competencies include digital health consultancy; digital health implementations; business strategy; software development; and stakeholder management. He trained as a Medical Doctor at the University of Ibadan, and has undertaken courses in Advanced telemedicine and Distance Learning Course (United States Telecommunication Training Institute); and in the Measurement, Design, and Analysis for Health Outcomes Research (Harvard School of Public Health). Dr Simpa Dania played a leading role as a consultant in the development of the user requirement and design of the Lagos State Health Insurance Schemes ICT platform. He has worked as a World Bank/IFC consultant to the Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria on the ICT for Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) project. He coordinated the development of the ICT infrastructure and requirement framework for the BHCPF. On the m-health platform, he is responsible for the development and implementation of the SMS4pregancy a component of our SMS4Health initiative targeted at alleviating the dismal maternal mortality in the country through education via text messaging system. He also led the coordination and implementation of a medical call center for the University College Hospital to provide coverage for both emergency and non-emergency medical calls Within the telemedicine domain, He has played leading roles both nationally and internationally. He was responsible for the setup and development of the University College Hospital Ibadan Telemedicine Department. He managed the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) telemedicine pilot project in which the UCH telemedicine Center was the national coordinating center. This pilot project involved 8 tertiary hospitals and a telemedicine van. He was responsible for the local implementation and setup of the Pan-African Telemedicine Network, in which the UCH Telemedicine Center is the regional center for the West African sub-regional. The Pan African Network connects 46 African patient locations and 12 super-specialist health institutions in India. He led the recently organized Prof IF Adewale Hackathon (www.ifa.healthhackathon.org) in collaboration with the Alexander Brown Hall, University of Ibadan for healthcare students. It was the first health hackathon targeted at Healthcare students in Nigeria and perhaps Africa. Dr Simpa Dania has consulted for various international organizations including WorldBank/IFC, Pharmaccess Nigeria, Carepay International, GIZ among others.