# Africa Digital Health Academy (ADHA)

> ADHA is a pan-African nonprofit academy headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, delivering African-contextualized training and certification in digital health and AI for healthcare professionals. Mission: to be a leading African center for digital health education, research, and certification — building African digital-health capacity and sovereignty, not dependence.

Available in English and French. Contact: info@adha.edu.et. Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

## Key pages

- [ADHA website](https://adha.edu.et): the public site, in English and French.
- [Course catalogue](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses): all 11 courses with levels, duration, and CPD points.
- [Apply](https://adha.edu.et/en/apply): membership and course application ([French](https://adha.edu.et/fr/apply)).
- [Learning platform](https://lms.adha.edu.et): where enrolled learners study (Moodle LMS).
- [Verify a credential](https://adha.edu.et/en/verify): confirm any ADHA certificate is genuine.
- [For institutions](https://adha.edu.et/en/for-institutions): partnership, bulk enrolment, and cohort options.
- [ADHA on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/africa-digital-health-academy): announcements and the monthly Brief.

## Courses (11)

Level I — the AfDHA (Associate) track, self-paced:

- [Digital Health Foundations](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/foundations): self-paced introduction to digital health and responsible AI with African clinical cases; the entry point (5 CPD points).
- [Health Data Management Basics](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/data-basics): accurate data capture, indicators and registers, data-quality checks, and dashboard literacy (6 CPD points).
- [Ethics, Privacy & Security in Digital Health](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/ethics-basics): confidentiality, digital consent, lawful data-sharing, and cyber-hygiene under Africa's data laws (5 CPD points).

Level II — the AfDHP (Practitioner) track, facilitated cohorts:

- [AI in Clinical Practice](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/ai-clinical): online modules, live case clinics, and an applied workplace project (up to 15 CPD points).
- [Digital Health Systems & Telemedicine](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/systems-telemedicine): build and lead telemedicine and digital health systems in low-resource settings (up to 15 CPD points).
- [Health Data & Interoperability](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/data-interop): DHIS2, FHIR, and OpenHIE — configure and connect systems that talk to each other (15 CPD points).
- [Implementation Science: Pilot to Scale](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/implementation): WHO DIIG lifecycle, NASSS framework, designing for scale, and total-cost-of-ownership modeling (15 CPD points).

Level II specialisations (also AfDHP track) and the Leadership Fellowship:

- [Fellowship: Digital Health & AI Leadership](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/fellowship): flagship six-month leadership fellowship, coming soon, with a mentored real-world capstone and a pipeline to leadership roles. Its award, ADHA Fellow, is a programme award decided by the Fellowship Awards Committee.
- [Training of Trainers (ToT)](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/tot): become a paid ADHA facilitator, content developer, and examiner (10 CPD points).
- [AI Deployment Governance in African Health Systems](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/ai-deployment-governance): grade AI by maturity, apply the WHO AI deployment checklist, mandate local validation, and audit for bias before clinical use (12 CPD points).
- [AI Legal & Institutional Governance](https://adha.edu.et/en/courses/ai-legal-governance): negotiate AI contracts with validation and exit clauses, ethics-committee review, data-protection supervision, and data sovereignty in research partnerships (9 CPD points).

## Certification pathway

Learners follow a personalized pathway: Level I (AfDHA, Associate) -> Level II (AfDHP, Practitioner) -> Level III (AfDHE, Expert, by expert dossier); the Leadership Fellowship confers the ADHA Fellow award. Courses carry ADHA CPD points, ADHA's own learning-hour measure, where 1 point is 1 hour of assessed learning; the certification framework is designed for ISO/IEC 17024.

- [Verify a credential](https://adha.edu.et/en/verify): completed certificates are publicly verifiable.

## Membership

- Member: free (one membership for every health and digital-health professional)
- Institutional: cohort licenses from $500/year for 50 learners; the founding window does not waive institutional fees. A signed MoU partnership carries no fee.
- Founding-member window: individual membership fees are currently waived for founding members. Institutional fees are not waived.

## How to join

- [Apply in English](https://adha.edu.et/en/apply): membership application.
- [Apply in French](https://adha.edu.et/fr/apply): the same application in French.
- [Study on the LMS](https://lms.adha.edu.et): enrolled learners study here.
- [Institutional partnership](https://adha.edu.et/en/for-institutions): options for hospitals, ministries, universities, and NGOs.

## Entity facts

- Full name: Africa Digital Health Academy; abbreviation: ADHA
- Type: nonprofit educational organization (digital health and AI education, research, certification)
- Headquarters: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Domains: adha.edu.et (public site), lms.adha.edu.et (learning platform)
- Languages: English, French
- Email: info@adha.edu.et
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/africa-digital-health-academy): Africa Digital Health Academy