Meet
Your Health System Architect
Dr. Mehdi Khaled
Global digital Health Leader
I’m currently the Managing Partner of SEHA - an independent international health and tech strategy firm, focusing on impact.
I’m a Medical Doctor specialized in Internal Medicine, a Software Engineer and a Health and Tech Executive with over 25 years of international contribution on top of many organizations and a few patent applications.
I've lived and worked in Africa, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. I have implemented health tech from hospital EMRs to national health exchanges, built top-notch consulting teams from scratch, advised governments at the highest levels, and was awarded a few patents in medical diagnostics. As a doctor who codes and a strategist who understands power, I read rooms most consultants can't—the unspoken hierarchies, the political undercurrents, the cultural tripwires that kill good ideas.
I've earned my ability to identify patterns in the global health tech circus, not from textbooks, but from watching brilliant plans crash against reality and rare ones actually fly. When I speak, you get the unvarnished truth: what works, what doesn't, and why other people's million-dollar mistakes should be your free education. No theory. No Fluff. No Buzzwords. Just the hard-won pattern recognition that turns complexity into clarity and helps you deliver impact without the scars I collected getting here. That's my promise!
Beyond the work, I'm someone who finds joy in connection - whether that's stumbling through Greek conversations (still learning!), experimenting with fusion recipes that don't always work out, or getting lost on mountain trails with friends. I speak Arabic, French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish, which has opened doors to understanding people, not just technology. The sailing, the trail running, the shared meals - they remind me that the best insights rarely come from conference rooms alone.
what makes my interventions unique
As an internist I was trained to think like an architect, not like a specialist. Architects must understand structural engineering and human psychology, ground structure, material properties and neighborhood context, building codes and how light moves through space. You can't design a building that works by only mastering one dimension. The same applies to health transformation. I've built expertise across multiple layers - the policy frameworks that shape what's possible, the cultural dynamics that determine what's acceptable, the technological capabilities that enable new models, and the operational realities that make or break implementation. But more importantly, I understand how these layers interact. How a national prevention strategy needs different technology architecture than a curative one. How Eastern and Western cultures require different change management approaches for the same platform. How breakthrough innovation dies without asking the right questions. This integrated view - holding clinical knowledge, cultural understading, technical depth and strategic breadth simultaneously - is what allows me to build health ecosystems that actually stand out when they meet reality. That's my territory, and I'd be delighted to walk you through it.