Keynote
Conferences, congresses, leadership and clinical audiences.
A talk from the field on the Access Infrastructure Thesis, shaped to your audience and grounded in real evidence and real trucks. Room to run a moderated Q&A alongside it.
Speaking and work with me
Talks from the field, grounded in the evidence.
I speak to clinical audiences, executive teams, and conference rooms about what it actually takes to move preventive care from policy into people's lives. Less theory, more trucks. I also advise a small number of organisations building access to care.
Why organisers invite me
- 2023One mammography truck on the road
- 300+Communities reached
- 22 000+Women screened
- 425+Cancers detected
Built into a national mobile screening network, delivered with employers including Vodacom and Sanlam. Grounded in an MBBCh with distinction, FC Rad Diag (SA), a PhD from the University of Bristol, years as a lead radiologist at Life Healthcare, and the inaugural SAMA Young Researcher of the Year award.
What I talk about
Healthcare access as infrastructure
Why screening fails at the system level rather than the clinical level, and what an infrastructure mindset changes about how we fund, build and measure preventive care.
Scaling care on wheels
The unglamorous mechanics of a national mobile screening network: one truck in 2023, more than 300 communities, 22 000 women screened and 425 cancers found since, and the operational lessons collected along the way.
Early detection as workforce health
What employers and their people gain when preventive screening comes to the workplace, drawn from the work with partners such as Vodacom and Sanlam. Built for HR and corporate wellness audiences.
The patient at the centre of the system
What clinicians, employers and health systems each get wrong about the women they are trying to reach, and how trust gets earned in the field.
Ways to work with me
Keynote and workshop
Leadership teams, clinical departments, corporate wellness and HR functions.
The keynote followed by a working session with your team, turning the ideas into questions you can act on: where access breaks in your own setting, and what an infrastructure approach would change.
Advisory and board
Health systems, insurers, employers and healthtech teams building access.
Ongoing counsel on designing and measuring access to care, as a strategic adviser or an independent board voice. Taken on selectively and only where there is no conflict with the work at RDISA.
Short bio for organisers
Dr Anith Chacko is a diagnostic radiologist and the founder and CEO of the Radhiant Group. He holds a PhD from the University of Bristol, completed medical school with distinction, and served as a lead radiologist at Life Healthcare before building RDISA's national mobile screening network. Through the Radhiant Foundation he sponsors mammograms for women who cannot afford screening. He is the inaugural SAMA Young Researcher of the Year and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
Invite me, or start a conversation
Tell me the date, the audience, and what you'd like people to leave with. For advisory work, a line on what you are building is enough to start. Either way it reaches one inbox, read by me, and I'll come back to you within a few days.