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Episode 9 - Interview with Joy Kamunyori
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In this episode we hear from Joy Kamunyori, a digital health and project management professional from Kenya about her 14 year career assessing, developing and implementing public health IT systems in sub-Saharan African countries.
We discussed:
- Joy’s background what she studied and how she ended working in public health
- How her passion for education and development and skillset landed her in a public health role that started of her career
- How she became interested in Computers and eventually chose to study computer science
- What she likes and drew her to coding and computer science
- How mentorship played a significant role in her career and choices at many junctures
- Her experience pursuing graduate studies in Computer Science
- What her work looks like now, in scale and range and the kinds of problems she supports solving
- How she considers herself an interpreter in her work in digital health and what that looks like
- How her roles have changed as her career has progressed in the field
- The relationship between Public health, education and development
- How Digital Health as a field and use of technology for health started, emerged and has now expanded to be integral in public health systems
- Challenges and key considerations for countries as they transition to having fully digital health information systems and how Joy has come across and been part of these conversations
- What are Joy’s favorite things about doing her work
- What public health means to Joy
- Joy’s advice to a younger self
- Top 3 skills she recommends to work on in the field
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