Digital Health as a "Global Good" with Jonathan Payne

Emily George had the pleasure of interviewing Jonathan Payne on our most recent episode of Unlocking Accountable Care. Jonathan has a background in public health and biomedical engineering and is currently a Senior Consultant at Regenstrief Institute & Digital Impact Alliance at the UN Foundation. He’s also the Director at Open Concept Lab. He has spent the last decade working in low-resource settings where he has focused on the effective integration and adoption of information and communications technologies for health system strengthening.

In this episode, Jonathan draws from his background working in low-resource settings and explains why high-income settings often struggle to adjust and adapt to advances in digital health technology. He discusses the lessons we can learn about COVID-19 relief from the global health community’s responses to previous health crises, such as Ebola. Jonathan also introduces the concept of global goods – digital health tools that are adaptable to different countries and contexts – and describes the Open Concept Lab, a platform he designed to collect, standardize, and report health measures between countries.