Scaling digital health responsibly
What national DHIS2 implementation across aggregate reporting and individual-level tracking teaches about workflows, adoption, support and equity.
Philip BoakyePublic health systemsMenu
Knowledge / Speaking
Conferences and professional exchange
Ideas built from delivery.
Talks and facilitated conversations that connect technical depth with practical public-health implementation.
Keynotes · Panels · Workshops · Technical sessionsAvailable topics
Conversations I can contribute to.
From diagnostic result to better care
Why laboratory integration, information flow and follow-up are part of diagnostic quality.
Using routine HIV data well
How teams can distinguish performance signals from data-quality problems and move to accountable action.
Practice as a research agenda
Turning real implementation challenges into relevant questions for epidemiology and implementation science.
Featured contribution pathway
From explaining BLIS to measuring and improving its implementation.
This documented sequence shows sustained contribution through professional speaking, implementation leadership, peer-reviewed conference work and technical collaboration.
What is the Basic Laboratory Information System?
Speaker at the Symposium on Affordable and Easy-to-Implement Information Systems for Laboratories, African Society for Laboratory Medicine First International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Rapid scale-up of the Basic Laboratory Information System in Ghana
African Society for Laboratory Medicine Second International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
The use of standardized tools for monitoring of a Laboratory Information System in Ghana
Peer-reviewed contribution presented through the Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA). The study reported standardized pre-implementation, six-month post-implementation and weekly monitoring tools across 12 Ghanaian public-sector laboratories.
View publication details ↗C4G BLIS: Health Care Delivery via Iterative Collaborative Design in Resource-constrained Settings
The ICTD ’16 paper by Vempala and colleagues formally acknowledges Philip Boakye for contributions to C4G BLIS.
View DOI ↗Selected contributions
Professional exchange across research, digital health and laboratory informatics.
Strategic Information facilitation
Annual Clinical Visit orientation for pilot Community ART Refill Sites, followed by consolidated HTS and LIMS training with AHF Ghana, NACP and regional health colleagues.
An Interactive Online Youth-Centered Dashboard for Updating the Public on COVID-19 Outbreak Data in Real Time
Youth Technology and Health · United States
Implementation of an Open Source Laboratory Information System in Ghana
Conference abstract published in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.
View DOI ↗The use of standardized tools for monitoring of a Laboratory Information System in Ghana
Co-author · Peer-reviewed contribution presented through the Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA) and published in the Proceedings of the 9th Health Informatics in Africa Conference (HELINA 2014) · Accra, Ghana
View publication details ↗Rapid scale-up of the Basic Laboratory Information System in Ghana
Oral presentation · African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Second International Conference · Cape Town, South Africa
Basic Laboratory Information Systems: A sustainable approach to computerized laboratory information systems in Ghana
Scientific Conference of the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists · Kumasi, Ghana
What is the Basic Laboratory Information System?
Speaker · Symposium on Affordable and Easy-to-Implement Information Systems for Laboratories · African Society for Laboratory Medicine, First International Conference · Cape Town, South Africa
Basic Laboratory Information System Activities in Ghana
Global Health Systems Solutions Open Day · Republic of Cameroon
Trainer and facilitator in HIV/AIDS Strategic Information
Professional training and technical exchange supporting programme teams since 2017.
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Available for conference presentations, technical panels, guest lectures, facilitated workshops, webinars and programme learning sessions.
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