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September 13, 2025

From Generic Campaigns to Personalized Journeys: The Three Waves of AI in Health Communication

How AI is helping health programs in Africa move from faster delivery to individualized engagement and why this matters for closing the health engagement gap. The Engagement Gap in Health Systems Across Sub-Saharan Africa, health systems have made major strides in expanding infrastructure, from electronic health records, DHIS2 registries, CRMs, even mobile-based reporting. But these…

Insight Solution Transparency

September 04, 2025

By DPE

The Hidden Strength of Simplicity in AI for Public Health

Why scaling to 10 Billion health messages (our primary mission) may depend less on bigger models and more on smarter, simpler transformers. In the world of artificial intelligence, it’s tempting to believe that bigger is always better. More layers, more parameters, more gates – surely that means more intelligence. But for those of us building…

Research Solution

September 04, 2025

By DPE

Transformers, SBCC, and the 10 Billion Health Message Mission

In global health, communication is everything. Whether it’s reminding a parent to give a child malaria medicine, guiding a community health worker through triage, or helping a ministry monitor national programs – the right message, at the right time, can save lives. But traditional tools are blunt. SMS blasts are generic. Health apps often sit…

Insight Research Solution

August 24, 2025

By DPE

The Hidden GPU Story Behind Scaling 10 Billion Health Messages

When most people think about AI in health, they imagine chatbots or SMS campaigns delivering timely nudges. What they rarely see is the invisible engine underneath: the GPUs powering it all. At DPE, our mission is bold – to deliver 10 billion health messages that reach households across Africa and beyond. To get there, we…

Research Solution

August 24, 2025

By DPE

From GPUs to Health Messages: How AI Infrastructure Unlocks Personalization for Public Health

At first glance, concepts like attention mechanisms, KV caching, or PagedAttention sound like highly technical jargon – the kind of thing only AI researchers or GPU engineers need to worry about. But under the hood, these breakthroughs are exactly what make it possible for InfoAFYA™ to serve millions of families across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa…

Product Publications Solution Team

August 24, 2025

By DPE

The White Space in Public Health Digital Infrastructure

Public health teams today face a paradox: the sector generates more campaigns, data, and interventions than ever before – yet most of it is siloed, underutilized, or lost. This is the “white space”: an abundance of assets (campaign data, messages, community insights) with no shared infrastructure to unlock their collective value. This is where InfoAFYA™…

Research Solution

August 23, 2025

By DPE

Why “Attention” is the Secret to Scaling 10 Billion Health Messages

Everyone talks about AI in healthcare. Most imagine giant datasets or futuristic robots. But the real breakthrough that makes AI effective for everyday people, especially in low-resource settings, is something far simpler: attention. Imagine a teacher in a busy classroom. That’s how attention mechanisms work in AI. In plain terms, attention is how AI decides…

Publications Research

August 19, 2025

By DPE

DPE marks one year as an AI for Global Health grantee

One year into our Global Grand Challenges grant, we’re building an inclusive, responsible AI assistant to support families and health teams managing sickle cell disease (SCD) in Kenya. Project title: Leveraging AI to Address Disease Management Knowledge Gaps Among People Living with Sickle Cell Disease in KenyaGrantee: Dennis Maorwe (DPE Company Ltd)Grant page: Global Grand…

Product Publications Research

June 25, 2025

By DPE

What Kwale Taught Us About Turning Signal Into Care

In Kwale, health choices are made in the space between a hopeful message and a shaky signal. Over the past months in Msambweni and Lunga-Lunga, we sat with families, young “sickle cell warriors,” Community Health Promoters and Advocates, and health workers. We heard about long clinic days, empty pharmacy shelves, confusing referrals and the steady…

Transparency

June 19, 2025

By DPE

Celebrating Our Data Protection Certification from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) in Kenya

As a company dedicated to improving population health in Kenya, we understand the importance of data protection and privacy for our clients and partners. We are thrilled to announce that we have recently received the Data Protection Certification from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) in Kenya. This certification acknowledges our commitment to…

From Generic Campaigns to Personalized Journeys: The Three Waves of AI in Health Communication

The Hidden Strength of Simplicity in AI for Public Health

Transformers, SBCC, and the 10 Billion Health Message Mission

The Hidden GPU Story Behind Scaling 10 Billion Health Messages

From GPUs to Health Messages: How AI Infrastructure Unlocks Personalization for Public Health

The White Space in Public Health Digital Infrastructure

Why “Attention” is the Secret to Scaling 10 Billion Health Messages

DPE marks one year as an AI for Global Health grantee

What Kwale Taught Us About Turning Signal Into Care

Celebrating Our Data Protection Certification from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) in Kenya

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From Generic Campaigns to Personalized Journeys: The Three Waves of AI in Health Communication

The Hidden Strength of Simplicity in AI for Public Health

Transformers, SBCC, and the 10 Billion Health Message Mission

The Hidden GPU Story Behind Scaling 10 Billion Health Messages

From GPUs to Health Messages: How AI Infrastructure Unlocks Personalization for Public Health

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