Mobile Technologies for Community Health

Partner(s): Dr. James Phillips Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Released: TBA In development.

CCNMTL is partnering with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health of the Mailman School of Public Health to develop, test, and disseminate a health information management system relying on low-cost cellular phone technology. This system, being developed in partnership with the Ghana Health Service, CCNMTL, and the Grameen Foundation, will be used to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and utility of information required by front-line health workers in remote communities of Ghana. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The goal of the project is to test whether the adaptation of low-cost mobile phone-based health technology can address major gaps in knowledge and information-sharing among health care workers at the community and district levels, and by doing so, significantly improve health outcomes in impoverished, rural communities in Ghana.

The Mobile Technologies for Community Health is a Triangle Initiative project.

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Medicine and Health