Scholarships
Support to attend GDHF 2026 in Bangkok
The Global Digital Health Forum offers two scholarships to support participation in the 2026 Forum in Bangkok, Thailand: the GDHF Scholarship and the Marc Mitchell Leadership and Innovation Award.
GDHF Scholarship
The GDHF Scholarship supports authors of accepted abstracts to take part in the Forum in person. Between two and four scholarships are awarded each year, each covering registration, travel, and accommodation for the Global Digital Health Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, from December 2–4, 2026.
Recipients are selected from authors of accepted abstracts, based on the motivation statement submitted with their abstract, their geographic location, and the topic of their abstract. Applications were made through the abstract submission process, which is now closed, and recipients are currently being selected.
Marc Mitchell Leadership & Innovation Award
Named for Dr. Marc Mitchell (1948–2019), founder of D-tree and a pioneer of digital health, the Marc Mitchell Leadership and Innovation Award is presented each year by the Global Digital Health Network. It recognizes an early- or mid-career professional in a low- or middle-income country who is using digital health to widen access to quality care and showing leadership in scaling it.
2026 Marc Mitchell Scholarship Recipient
Kondwani Isazaki Msiska
Kondwani Isazaki Msiska is a digital health engineer from Malawi who has spent the past several years building the national systems behind his country’s shift from paper to digital health.
Working with the Digital Health Division of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, he built Kuunika’s Mobile Supervision Toolkit (MST), which replaced paper HIV supervision forms and now runs in every public health facility in the country. He architected Malawi’s national COVID-19 digital certification system with the Presidential COVID-19 Taskforce and Gavi, issuing and verifying over 10 million certificates. And he engineered the emergency care module for the Adult Emergency Triage Centre (AETC) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, the largest and busiest emergency centre in the country, along with the maternal and newborn modules of the Malawi HealthCare Information System (MaHIS), including protocol-guided antenatal care with danger-sign alerting, now live in more than 400 facilities.
A Commonwealth Scholar with an MSc in Digital Health from the University of Bristol and a graduate of the YALI Regional Leadership Center Southern Africa programme in Public Management and Governance at the University of South Africa, Kondwani is known for setting engineering standards and transferring skills to government staff, so the systems he builds outlast the donor funding that started them.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Marc Mitchell Scholarship by D-tree, Kondwani is headed to the 2026 Global Digital Health Forum in Bangkok. He will also receive a year of professional mentorship.