Latest Posts
-
Your Best Staff Will Leave. Here Is How to Build a Team That Stays.
A multi-level talent strategy for African healthcare businesses competing against brain drain Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The Brain Drain Is Not Just a Policy Problem — It Is Your Operations Problem Sub-Saharan Africa has only 1.55 health workers per… Continue reading
-
Diaspora Dollars, Local Impact: How Africans Abroad Can Invest Strategically in Healthcare Back Home
Turning remittances into healthcare infrastructure — a practical guide for the global African Hamza Asumah, MD MPH, MBA The $54 Billion Opportunity No One Is Fully Capturing Every year, Africans in the diaspora send approximately $54 billion to sub-Saharan Africa… Continue reading
-
Your Medical Degree Will Not Save Your Business: The Clinician-to-CEO Transition
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The Most Expensive Credential in Healthcare Business Your medical degree is an extraordinary achievement. It represents years of sacrifice, intellectual discipline, and a profound commitment to human wellbeing. It also gives you a dangerous confidence… Continue reading
-
The Scaling Trap: Why African Health Startups Grow to 3 Locations and Then Stall
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The 3-Location Ceiling Is Not a Funding Problem I have seen it dozens of times. An ambitious healthcare entrepreneur opens their first clinic. It works. They open a second — usually because a friend or… Continue reading
-
Navigating 54 Regulatory Environments: The African Healthcare Founder’s Compliance Playbook
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH Why ‘Africa’ Is Not a Regulatory Context One of the most dangerous assumptions a healthcare entrepreneur can make — especially those building from the diaspora — is treating Africa as a single regulatory environment. It… Continue reading
-
Building a Revenue Model That Actually Works in Africa — When Insurance Penetration Is Under 20%
Hamza Asymah, MD, MBA, MPH The Western Revenue Model Trap Every week, somewhere in Africa, a well-trained, mission-driven healthcare entrepreneur launches a clinic, a digital health platform, or a pharmacy network using a revenue model copied from a Western context.… Continue reading
-
The Funding Desert: Why African Healthtech Gets Left Behind — and What to Do About It
Hamza Asumah, MD, MPH, MBA The Uncomfortable Truth About African Healthtech Funding Let me start with a number that should disturb every African healthcare entrepreneur reading this: in the first half of 2024, African healthtech companies collectively raised $42.2 million… Continue reading
-
When Donors Become a Liability: Managing Grant Dependency Without Losing Your Company
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The Donor Trap With poor funding and a poor state of health systems hindering attainment of sustainable development goals, billions of donor funds are perennially pumped to improve African healthcare delivery and health system performance.… Continue reading
-
Trust Is the Product: How Healthcare Brands Win in Low-Trust Markets
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The Trust Problem An estimated 30% of drugs in pharmaceutical supply chains where are counterfeit. Diagnostic results may be falsified to generate more business. Providers often demand payment before treatment. Health records are lost when… Continue reading
-
Hardware Is Hard—But Not Impossible: What It Really Takes to Build, Deploy, and Maintain Medical Devices in Africa
Hamza Asumah, MD, MBA, MPH The 40-70% Problem African hospitals report 40–70% of equipment being non-functional at any given time due to poor maintenance, lack of spare parts, and fragmented supply chains. Read that again. Up to 70% of medical… Continue reading
Dr. Hamza Asumah 