Anadach and People to People (P2P) pleased to announce a new collaborative initiative: a monthly educational lecture series on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This initiative builds on the successful partnership forged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when P2P and Anadach convened webinars every two weeks for over six months. Those sessions educated policymakers, health leaders, and communities across Pan-Africa, leaving a lasting impact at a time of urgent need. The new AI lecture series seeks to position Africa’s academic and medical communities at the forefront of technological transformation. The focus will be on the applications, opportunities, and challenges of AI in healthcare, medical education, and governance. With P2P’s network now expanded to Dubai and Kigali, and as one of the founding institutions of the African Medical Schools Consortium, this initiative reflects a natural evolution of our mission: to convene experts, empower future leaders, and guide Africa’s response to global innovations. Together, P2P and Anadach reaffirm their commitment to building bridges of knowledge, strengthening institutions, and ensuring that Africa’s medical and educational communities are prepared to thrive in the AI era.
The role of AI is becoming crucial for strengthening medical education in tertiary institutions across the world. The Harvard Medical School, University of Toronto and the University of Singapore are examples of schools that have introduced AI modules for undergraduate training. For Africa, the case is clear but somewhat different – embracing AI goes beyond mere innovation, as it can also strategically address workforce shortages, leapfrog traditional models and equip future professionals with relevant AI skills required in the future. In essence, AI technologies are proving to be essential and cost-effective tools that can significantly enhance the medical education in Africa to become competitive. This webinar attempts to address some of the global trends and best practices, policy challenges and capacity issues that the governments in African countries face in implementing AI technologies, with focus on medical education. It invites experts in the education sector, artificial intelligence and health professionals to share their experiences navigating education systems and their views on policy change. Through this webinar, the Anadach Group offers nuanced insights into AI-driven technologies educational experiences in different contexts. This virtual interaction will initiate a dialogue on how policymakers, international organizations, health professionals and educators can develop a more dynamic education ecosystem that can adjust alongside rapid global change in artificial intelligence.
The Second webinar planned at 1.00 pm UTC on December 17th 2025 will focus on AI in Clinical
Practice and AI in Continuous Training/Capacity Enhancement.
Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1quJ0KBnSbyw2ZHXlHlWEw
Speakers and Moderators:
Dr. Yogita Abichandani – Associate Professor of Business Studies (HR & OB) at the Management Development Institute (MDI) Murshidabad
Dr. Tequam Worku – Chief Operating Officer of the One Health Global Alliance
Prof. Paul Lalvani – Founder and Director of the Empower School of Health, the Center for Digital Learning, and the Center for Leadership Development
Tobi Olatunji – Machine Learning Scientist, Founder of Intron Voice AI
Program:
1.00pm – 1.10pm Welcome Remarks – People to People (P2P) & Anadach
1.10pm – 1.20pm Opening Remarks – Ambassador Fitsum Arega – Ethiopian Ambassador to Canada
1.20pm – 1.25pm Special Remarks – Prof. Abebe Bekele – Academic Affairs and Research, University of Global Health Equity
1.25pm – 1.55pm Panel 1: AI in Continuous Training/Capacity Enhancement
Moderator | Dr. Tequam Worku – COO, One Health Global Alliance
Panelists:
Dr. Yogita Abichandani – Associate Professor, Management Development Institute Murshidabad
Prof. Paul Lalvani – Founder and Director, Empower School of Health
Audience engagement (virtually) managed by moderator
1.55pm – 2.25pm Panel 2: AI in Clinical Practice
Moderator | Dr. Maraki Merid, Co-Founder/Management Director, CHS Advisory
Panelists:
Dr. Tobi Olatunji – Founder, Intron INC
Dr. Minyahil Tadesse – Armauer Hansen Research Institute
Audience engagement (virtually) managed by moderator
2.25pm – 2.30pm Closing reflections & Next Steps – P2P and Anadach
Dr. Yogita Abichandani
Associate Professor of Business Studies (HR & OB) at the Management Development Institute (MDI) Murshidabad
Dr. Yogita Abichandani is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator, currently serving as an Associate Professor of Business Studies (HR & OB) at the Management Development Institute (MDI) Murshidabad. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Georgia’s Department of Learning, Leadership, & Organization Development, where she was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni and Outstanding Graduate. She also holds two additional Master's degrees in Personnel Management and HRD.
As a Certified Qualitative Researcher, Dr. Yogitta’s work critically examines the intersection of AI and human capability, alongside leadership, gender studies, and healthcare. Her career spans prestigious institutions across the globe, including faculty positions at Symbiosis International University and Western Carolina University in the USA. A committed global academic, she has successfully forged international partnerships with schools like SOAS-UK and ESC Claremont France and runs a regular Virtual Exchange Program. Her research is published in top-tier Q1/Q2 journals, and she has actively contributed to the Academy of HRD, USA, including a nine-year tenure as Chair of its India SIG.
Dr. Tequam Worku, DrPH, MPH
Chief Operating Officer of the One Health Global Alliance
Dr. Tequam Worku, DrPH, MPH, is a public health leader and policy strategist with extensive experience advancing evidence-based solutions at the intersection of research, global health, and equitable policy. She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the One Health Global Alliance, where she provides strategic and operational leadership across activities. Previously, Dr. Worku held roles at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, directing consensus studies and multi-stakeholder collaboratives—including the 2022 study on
Improving the CDC Quarantine Station Network’s Response to Emerging Threats; an
international study on rare-disease drug regulation, the national effort to establish a Working Definition of Long COVID and the Action Collaborative on Engaging Community Practices in Clinical Trials. She also worked at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) supporting states and territories in advancing evidence-based public health strategies and strengthening clinical-to-community connections. Dr. Worku holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) and a Master of Public Health (MPH) and is deeply committed to driving solutions that improve health outcomes for communities
Prof. Paul Lalvani
Founder and Director of the Empower School of Health, the Center for Digital Learning, and the Center for Leadership Development
Prof. Paul Lalvani brings over 25 years of experience in public health, with a strong focus on strategic advisory, capacity building, digital learning, and health systems strengthening across Asia and Africa. He is the Founder and Director of the Empower School of Health, the Center for Digital Learning, and the Center for Leadership Development, which focuses on innovative, technology-enabled training for health professionals.
He has led high-level initiatives in regulatory strengthening, procurement and supply chain systems, and health workforce development, including extensive advisory work across the African continent. His work has supported ministries of health, universities, UN agencies, and NGOs to use digital platforms to strengthen competencies in leadership, digital health, supply chain, and health systems management.
He has served as a consultant and advisor to WHO, the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, USAID, and other global partners on access to medicines, technology transfer, and capacity development. Prof. Lalvani brings extensive, practical experience in integrating digital technologies into curricula and continuous professional development, coupled with a strong commitment to ensuring that these innovations enable countries worldwide, particularly in Africa, to leapfrog traditional models and develop a future-ready health workforce.
Tobi Olatunji
Founder of Intron Voice AI
Tobi Olatunji is a physician turned Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience in Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Recognition, & Speech Translation for healthcare. After building intelligent systems for healthcare at AWS Health AI and Enlitic in San Francisco, he founded Intron Health, the first automated real-time ambient medical scribe that supports 300+ African accents and 20+ languages saving overworked doctors 3+hrs per day.
Tobi holds 3 US technology patents, is a Member of the Commonwealth Artificial Intelligence Consortium (CAIC), and the Research Director at Bio-RAMP Labs. Tobi currently sits on the Advisory Board at the OpenNotes Lab at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and serves as Technical Advisor to the Harvard Blavatnik Institute of Global Health and Social Medicine on scaling digital and mHealth interventions in Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; an MSc in Medical Informatics from the University of San Francisco, a Certificate in Healthcare Management from Yale School of Management and an MSc in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published at Interspeech, Neurips, ACL, Nature, NAACL, EACL, MIDL, EMNLP, and other top machine-learning conferences/workshops.