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Lalibela Networks PLC founder Wuleta Lemma (PhD) has been shortlisted for the 2020 Jack Ma Foundations Africa Business Hero Contest, a flagship self-described philanthropic program in support of African entrepreneurs. She is the only Ethiopian among the 22,000 applicants who have reached the final stages, from 54 African countries.
“I cannot find the words to thank everyone who believed in me and my vision of Emergency Medical Responder for Ethiopia and Africa. Together we will ensure that there are no ‘lost or misplaced medical records’ for every woman, man and child,”He stated on Twitter.
A graduate of Spelman, Emory and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, she has had a long career and founded her company to help digitize healthcare services through the “Abay-CHR”, a system of record. Patient-Centered Connected Health System “.
“Dr. Wuleta’s expansive long-term vision for the system also includes leveraging Abay-CHR’s AI approaches to Big Data to predict disease trends, help efficiently deploy healthcare resources, and inform health care policy making.Dr. Wuleta is an experienced, challenge-driven, and goal-oriented professional with 28 years of digital health technologies, international public health, health care management, global health security, experience in pandemic surveillance, ”says the official biography.
He has worked in various countries, including Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, and the United States, among many others.
“Congratulations, Dr. Wuleta. Proud, ”tweeted Tedros Adhanom, CEO of the World Health Organization, when she was announced as one of the finalists.
Wuleta is known for helping integrate eHealth to help distribute vital information on HIV / AIDS, Malaria, MNCH, TB prevention and control, epidemiology, disease surveillance, tropical medicine, public health emergency management, and One Health.
The last 10 shortlisted candidates, selected from a variety of professions including agriculture, fashion, education, healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce and others, will share the final prize worth $ 1.5 million.
