Morenike Fajemisin

CEO & Co-Founder of Whispa Health

Whispa Health

Morenike Fajemisin is a multi-award-winning pharmacist, an entrepreneur, and the CEO & Co-Founder of Whispa Health. Her business Whispa Health leverages technology to enable everyone (especially women) to have shame-free, confidential consultations with a doctor. It also offers a convenient, affordable, and stigma-free means to book various sexual health appointments (contraception, cervical cancer screening, STI tests), and to purchase sexual health products like HIV test kits, condoms and more.

Whispa Health has won John Hopkins’ ingenuity fund award, W.H.O. Africa’s Top30 Innovation award, Bayer Foundation’s Women Empowerment Award, Google’s Black Founders Award and most recently Unorthodox Philanthropy’s extraordinary leader award.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

19 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
10:30 am EEST	12:00 pm EEST	FemTech Revolution: Advancing Health for All Concurrent Room AD 11	FemTech Revolution: Advancing Health for All will tackle issues such as bias in algorithms and the need to learn from previous failures in technology and other Read More FemTech Revolution: Advancing Health for All will tackle issues such as bias in algorithms and the need to learn from previous failures in technology and other industries, delving into wearable technology in women’s health, perspectives from founders of health tech startups and clinicians. We will answer the following questions: How do we ensure we are not reproducing systems of exclusion in tech? Can FemTech be a blueprint for the rest of tech? How do we embed health equity at the core of FemTech? How can we utilise healthtech as a tool for health equity? Session format: Learning from Failure Organized by Race & Health Read Less Speakers Thanuja Jayawardene Head of Women’s Empowerment, Advocacy and Code of Conduct MAS Holdings Natacha Mugeni Chief Health Officer at Kasha Kasha Global Morenike Fajemisin CEO & Co-Founder of Whispa Health Whispa Health Sujitha Selvarajah Health equity specialist, health tech advisor, and OBGYN Race & Health Ida Tin Co-founder and former CEO, of Clue, the female health app Clue Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa Founder of CHIL Femtech Center CHIL Femtech