Sustainable Health Initiatives for All (SHIFA)

AI for the Frontline of Ethiopian Health and Climate Resilience

Sustainable Health Initiatives for All (SHIFA) is an Ethiopian digital health company building AI products for the frontline of healthcare and climate resilience. Two live products carry that mission: SCIP for clinical decision support, and Degdeg for climate-health early warning.

Designed locally, in local languages, for the realities of resource-constrained health systems.

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A SHIFA health worker administers a vaccine to a young child during a community immunization campaign

A SHIFA field health worker preparing a vaccine dose during an outdoor immunization campaign

What We Build

AI products built for the frontline

AI products for frontline healthcare and climate-disaster resilience — designed locally, in local languages, for the realities of resource-constrained health systems.

A computer circuit board with a brain graphic, representing AI-powered clinical decision support

Live product

SHIFA Clinical Intelligence Platform (SCIP)

An AI clinical decision-support tool that gives frontline health workers real-time, guideline-based answers at the point of care.

Selected for the African Impact Challenge 2026 Bootcamp (Health Entrepreneurship – Builder Track) and the AI UniPod Bootcamp, Second Cohort — powered by timbuktoo with UNDP Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Addis Ababa University.

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Live product

Degdeg

AI Climate-Health Early Warning

An AI early warning platform that turns open climate forecasts into anticipated health impacts and plain-language advisories for woreda health workers — so health offices can act before disaster becomes an emergency.

100

Woredas monitored

WHO & national protocol sources

~2,000

Indexed protocol passages

100%

Advisories human-approved

First deployed across 100 woredas in the Somali Region, built to scale nationally.

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