Introduction
Digital health tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly shaping reproductive healthcare, from maternal and antenatal care and screening to SRHR information, fertility tracking and telehealth. They offer opportunities to strengthen access and quality, but they also raise questions about power, privacy, bias and accountability, particularly where reproductive data can expose people to stigma, discrimination or surveillance.
This advanced short course applies Ahaki’s Africentric Reproductive Justice Framework for Africa to digital health and Al. It examines how these technologies are designed, deployed and governed, and how policy and advocacy can help ensure that they advance reproductive justice in African contexts.
Through a composite Al use case, African case studies and four guiding questions (Who does Al serve? On whose terms? Whom does it fail, and who answers? Who governs, and what do we do?), participants will engage with data, consent and sovereignty, legal and policy frameworks, bias and exclusion, accountability and redress, community participation and advocacy strategies. Participants will leave with an advocacy roadmap.
Theme: An Africentric Reproductive Justice Approach to Digital Health in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Cohort 3)
Objective
Equip participants to apply an Africentric reproductive justice approach to the governance of Al and digital health, and to develop evidence-based advocacy that advances equitable, accountable and rights-based reproductive healthcare in Africa.
Target Audience
- Healthcare professionals,
- Healthcare technology developers,
- Health policymakers and regulators,
- Patient advocates,
- Ethics and compliance professionals,
- NGO workers,
- Healthcare educators,
- Community health workers,
- Scholars interested in digital health justice.
Methodology and Duration
The course will be delivered online for a period of one week.
The course will run from
16th November 2026 to 20th November 2026.
Application Deadline:6th November 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should use link below to apply.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
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