In preparation for KLIC 2025, GaneshAID has reflected on the powerful moments that shaped last year’s gathering. Among the most insightful voices at KLIC 2024 was Dr. Andrew Brown – Adjunct Associate Professor on PSCM competency development in LMICs at University of Canberra, Australia. His candid reflections captured the true spirit of why KLIC matters, particularly as a catalyst for cross-sector collaboration and potential affirmation in solving regional issues.
A Space for Change – Dr. Andrew Brown’s expectations for KLIC 2024
What inspired Dr. Brown to attend KLIC 2024 was a distinctive inquiry rarely found in other global health platforms: how to bring innovation to life. Through informative dialogues among country leaders, health professionals, and innovators, Dr. Brown saw a possibility of stronger mutual understanding in diverse aspects: local realities, pressing needs, and existing efforts towards health equity. He paid particular attention to the Innovation Hackathon, which empowered country teams to dive deep into real issues and co-design practical solutions.
How Expectations were Honed into Valuable Insights – Rethink & Connect
Already grasping how remote and inaccessible areas pose hindrances to adequate health service delivery, Dr. Brown was compelled to reconsider how seemingly insurmountable barriers, both geographic and mindset-related, can gradually be tackled through strategic planning and strong collaboration. For example, companies’ demonstration of applying cold chain innovations to reach underserved communities conveyed a powerful sense of hope for health equity and coverage, now through modernizing immunization and primary health care systems.
Dr. Brown also highlighted the interrelationship of three elements: technology, data, and people. While data-driven evidence reveals the nature of health challenges, and a wide range of technological solutions are readily available to integrate, true innovation can only happen when people are placed at the core. This indispensable role should be displayed throughout the process, from defining the issues and attentive listening to sharing experience, to deliver a sense of co-creation and shared responsibility.
Long-term Reflection Remains for Sustainable Practices
Beyond its immediate impact, KLIC 2024 offered enduring lessons to unfold and deepen over time. Dr. Brown’s reflections gradually rose to a sense of urgency: the urgent need to accelerate access to vaccines and medicines, and to turn available tools and processes into real action. While solutions already exist, they cannot drive change on their own. What is needed is the steady guidance, commitment, and engagement of country leadership—partners who accompany and champion the implementation of innovation within their systems.
From this understanding arises a compelling inception for sustainability: country-led innovation. For innovation to endure, health professionals should provide their countries with holistic knowledge of their technical, political, and social environments. Only then can they remain firmly in the driver’s seat: shaping decisions, leading the change, and ensuring that innovations are not only introduced, but integrated, scaled, and sustained over time.
KLIC 2025: Carrying Forward the Powerful Reflections and Legacy of KLIC 2024
In welcoming the KLIC 2025 theme “Smart Systems for Health Equity: AI, Geo-Intelligence, and Country-Led Innovation,” Dr. Andrew Brown highlights a pivotal moment for global health systems. He expects partners involved to unlock the full potential of technology, particularly the three focused tools above. Doing so requires a deep understanding of what tools exist, what improvements they can expect, and how these solutions can be practically integrated to strengthen access to quality vaccines and medicines.
For health workers, the event is an invaluable opportunity to learn how technology and collective intelligence can make health systems smarter and fairer, empowering them with data, insights, and efficient use of resources. For young leaders aspiring to uplift their communities with equitable health access, KLIC 2025 offers the chance to explore the process behind innovation and what experience to embrace to drive meaningful impact at the local level.
As Dr. Brown walked into KLIC 2024 with hopes and left with clarity, renewed purpose, and actionable insights, you too can discover what meaningful innovation looks like when ideas move into real-world application.
So, what will you gain?
Come to KLIC 2025, and let your expectations meet reality.
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