# Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2017
- Speaker: Soyapi Mumba
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/soyapi_mumba_medical_tech_designed_to_meet_africa_s_needs)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malawi, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new system from scratch -- from the software that powers their electronic health records to the infrastructure used to support it. In this quick, hopeful talk, Mumba shares how his jack-of-all-trades mindset can help reshape health care in low-resource environments.

## Lectures

1. [Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/soyapi_mumba_medical_tech_designed_to_meet_africa_s_needs/d1959efce7de), 6 min (TED's player)