About ADHA
A professional association of health professionals and educators, preparing Africa's health workforce, students, and digital-health learners to practice, lead, and innovate in a health system becoming digital and AI-enabled.
Mission
To equip African health professionals to practice, lead, and innovate in a health system that is rapidly becoming digital and AI-enabled.
Vision
A generation of African health-professional leaders in digital health and AI, and measurably stronger, safer, more accessible health systems across the continent.
Headquarters
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Built at the seat of the African Union.
Our model
Learn. Earn. Lead.
One journey, from first principles to continental leadership.
Registration
ACSO-registered
A civil society organization registered with the Authority for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO).
A member organization of health professionals, by design.
ADHA is a professional association founded by health professionals and educators, built in Addis Ababa, seat of the African Union.
- Every certified member (clinician, nurse, pharmacist, public-health or informatics professional, or student) can join the Academy.
- Members elect the Academy's leadership. Governance grows from the profession itself.
- Member ownership gives ADHA standing with ministries, WHO, and the African Union.
What we hold ourselves to.
Excellence with evidence
We publish our results (including completion rates) and let the data speak.
Access
Low-bandwidth, affordable to sponsors, and free to the learner.
African ownership
African faculty, African clinical cases, African languages.
Integrity
Transparent governance, transparent accounts, editorial independence.
Community
Every learner becomes family. Engagement does not end at certification.
From the founders
“Africa's digital health future should be written here, by the professionals who carry its health systems every day.”
We are health professionals, and we have spent our careers building digital health and education platforms across Africa. Everywhere we worked, we met the same gap: talented health professionals asked to practice in systems that are becoming digital and AI-enabled, with no structured way to learn, get certified, and lead that change.
ADHA is our answer: an academy owned by its members, taught through African clinical cases, and accountable for the results we publish. If you are a health professional or a student anywhere on this continent, this Academy was built for you.
Be part of what we are building.
Join a member-owned academy: learn, certify, and help shape digital health and AI across Africa.