Catch-Up with DHA CEO, Stella Ward – October 2026

Stella Ward, CEO of the Digital Health Association (DHA), will share sector updates and information and listen to any concerns you may have.

This private and confidential meeting provides a platform for our industry members to discuss pertinent matters in the sector in a safe and secure environment. It also offers an opportunity to connect with fellow DHA members, share challenges, and explore potential opportunities.

These forums are a valuable way to keep up-to-date and engaged with the sector and your fellow colleagues in a safe way.

Please note: These sessions are not recorded and no AI is permitted to record the event.

This session we will be joined by DHA Board Member, and Innovation Lead for Wise Group, Vanessa Ding.

Vanessa will bring a member and Board perspective to the session, with a particular focus trends she is seeing in digital mental health and consumer health more broadly, from a local and global perspective.  Vanessa’s leadership career centres on the translation of evidence into impact, and includes the development, modernisation and scaling of several digital health products and programmes across University of Auckland, Emerge Aotearoa and currently, within MH&A NGO Wise Group, including strategic leadership of the e-therapy tool ‘Just a Thought’.