Guiding Principles
How we work
DHDI
Leadership
DHDI is a non-profit start-up. Our work revolves around three principles: Disruption, Decolonization & Democratization.
Disrupting Industry Narratives.
DHDI is working with civil society organizations to expand the narrative of digital health to community digital ownership-- moving beyond existing narratives revolving around commercial tech & non-commercial health industry actors.
Operationalizing Decolonial Strategies in Global Health.
We work alongside community-based organizations to create alternatives to data colonialism to build community power shaping health & gender priorities.
Democratizing Health Evidence Across Education & Literacy Levels.
With a focus on distilling instead of diluting evidence, we are linking individual-focused health behavior strategies with social & environmental determinants of health to empower families & communities.
DHDI is actively cultivating new strategies to advance decolonized global health & gender partnerships-- on and offline.
DHDI incubates hyper-local strategies with community collaborators in high risk-high connectivity settings.
Our goal is not to create a sustained presence with our partners. Instead, we seek to create a direct link to cutting edge science and technology between community partners and the communities they serve. In doing so, DHDI aims to reduce the digital throttling effect-- which currently enables digital to function within existing constraints instead of disrupting existing constraints to advancing health equity.
We do this work as a nimble, virtual network of global staff, field collaborators, academic partners & individual volunteers. This enables us to keep overheads low and maintain our primary focus on solving big problems with our community collaborators.