The Africa Health Ventures Podcast

A quarterly digital health/healthtech and healthcare-access show hosted by veteran entrepreneur Rowena Luk, featuring leaders who are building practical solutions across Africa. Expect founder and C-suite insights on scaling care, diagnostics, distribution, partnerships, and impact models—useful for PR outreach to global health and impact stakeholders.

77 episodes, Irregular, 5.0 rating

<1k, Female, USA

rowenaluk@substack.com

Rowena Luk

Investing, Business, Health & Fitness, Technology, Society & Culture, Business News

Healthcare leaders and innovators (founders/CEOs/CSOs), clinical experts, and pharma/diagnostics executives; often with demonstrable delivery at scale, cross-country partnerships, and measurable impact in Africa (e.g., diagnostics accuracy, distribution reach, or access outcomes).

Founded or scaled a healthtech/digital health company in Africa, Leadership roles at global healthcare/pharma companies (e.g., country/region heads), Clinical advocacy or recognized medical leadership (e.g., oncology/breast care pioneers), Built or launched AI/diagnostic tools with reported performance metrics, High-profile partnerships with major brands/health ecosystems

Dr. Carol Benn - Practical Complexity Of Advancing Women’s Health; Collaboration Across Governments, Clinicians, And Innovators., Jörg-Michael Rupp - Why Healthcare Access Requires Cross-industry Collaboration; Partnership Perspectives Supporting Patient Access., Joanna Bichsel - Last-mile Health Product Delivery At Scale; Government Partnerships; Collaboration With Global Pharma (roche); Financing And Distribution Models; Impact Investing Perspectives., Maturin Tchoumi - Technology As A Multiplier For Healthcare Efficiency; Mobile-enabled Innovation., Thom Renwick - Economic Toll Of Breast Cancer; Productivity Impacts Of Late Diagnosis.

Digital Health, Healthcare, Healthtech, Diagnostics, Africa, Scaling, Partnerships, Women's Health, Pharma, Investment