HELINA

Standards & Industry Bodies · Telemedicine & Virtual Care

Overview

HELINA Professionalizing Digital Health and Health Informatics in Africa Who We Are HELINA stands for HEeaLth INformatics in Africa. We are the Pan African Health Informatics Association and the African regional representation in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA).

Growth

Hiring Momentum
30/100
Slowing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
15 days
faster than 65% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~20 hours
11/04/2026
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
50% ▼
HR
25% ▼
Management
25% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at HELINA over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Developer tools
Git
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News

Blog 26 days ago
RECAINSA and HELINA Formalize Alliance to Strengthen Digital Health Cooperation Between Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa
The Memorandum of Understanding establishes a framework for South-South cooperation to advance knowledge exchange, capacity development, standards and interoperability, responsible artificial intelligence, scientific collaboration, and mutual learning acr
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Press release 6 months ago
Kenya is Africa's Silicon Savannah; Could Its AI Bill Bury or Spur Health Innovation?
Kenya has earned its reputation. Long lauded as Africa's Silicon Savannah, it is a country where AI is already deeply embedded in sectors like agriculture, finance and healthcare, to name a few. In 2024, Kenyan startups raised $638 million in 2024, repres
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Blog 8 months ago
Beyond the Hype: How Kenya's "Full-STAC" Strategy is Codifying the Future of African AI
Participants at the AI in Health Convergence on 27th February 2026 The era of speculative tech hype in African healthcare is over. For too long, the continent has been a graveyard for well-intentioned but isolated digital health projects-a phenomenon know
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Blog 8 months ago
Health Data Governance in Malawi: From Fragmentation to Trust, Equity, and Accountability
A Community Health Worker uses a tablet to record child vaccination data in Malawi. Picture source: https://health.bmz.de/stories/linking-rural-health-centres-up-with-malawis-digital-health-architecture/ Malawi stands at a critical juncture in its digital
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Blog 1 year ago
The Big Picture: HELINA 2025 Roundup
Our vision for digital health transformation is clear: practical, realistic, actionable, people-centred, and Africa-owned. Health Informatics in Africa Week was a place of reflection on our collective efforts towards achieving this vision and the challeng
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News Hyperallergic 1 year ago
Helina Metaferia Takes Back the Museum
The Ethiopian-American artist creates her own artifacts to highlight a lineage of Black female activism.
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Blog 1 year ago
Stakeholders Gather to Strengthen Health Data Governance in Africa
Health data governance-a set of practices and policies designed to manage and control healthcare data throughout its lifecycle, ensuring its accuracy, privacy, security, and accessibility for authorized users -is once again on the political agenda this ye
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Blog 1 year ago
Unveiling HELINA's New Logo
"A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is-it is what consumers tell each other it is." - Scott Cook, Co-Founder of Intuit. In today's world, a logo is more than a visual symbol; it is a representation of one's identity, values, and goals. As a
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Blog 2 years ago
Health Data Governance in Malawi - Building a Framework for the Future
On 2 July, 2024, stakeholders in Malawi convened at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) in Lilongwe for a significant meeting focused on shaping the future of health data governance in the country. Organised by Malawi's Health bio-Informatics
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Blog 2 years ago
Pioneering Global Health Data Governance: Insights from Kigali Consultation
Introduction: In the modern healthcare landscape, robust data governance stands as a cornerstone, ensuring patient confidentiality, data security, and ethical information use. Recently, Rwanda Health Informatics Association (RHIA), in collaboration with H
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Accra Ghana
Regional office
Address
GA-381-3558Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra P.O Box LG 13 Legon Accra, GA/R
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