MySmileBuddy

Partner(s): Dr. Burton Edelstein College of Dental Medicine Access: Private Released: April 2011 VIEW PROJECT

MySmileBuddy is a mobile application to guide health workers assessing a child's risk for early childhood caries (ECC or severe tooth decay) and counseling that child's family on preventative lifestyle changes. CCNMTL is partnering with Dr. Burton Edelstein of the College of Dental Medicine to propose an improved risk assessment for ECC, and to develop and test the MySmileBuddy tool. Dr. Edelstein will conduct a pilot of MySmileBuddy funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) with at-risk families in Morningside Heights.

Health workers and families using MySmileBuddy will supplement their face-to-face interaction with the use of MySmileBuddy's mobile application on a tablet computer that calculates risk for ECC and assists health workers in providing educational and motivational activities about oral health. The mobile application features assessment questions, interactive day/diet planner, videos and animation, as well as researcher tools including an online equation weighting tool for developing appropriate risk scores and an administrative area for viewing family data.

MySmileBuddy represents a novel approach to improving dental health through emphasizing prevention rather than repair, exploring ways to move dental education and care into a community health worker context, and helping dentists learn to deliver counseling messages about behavior change.

Mobile Technologies for Community Health (MOTECH)

Partner(s): Dr. James Phillips Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Access: Private Released: October 2009 VIEW PROJECT

Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) is a initiative to test whether low-cost mobile phone technology can improve information-sharing among health care workers, and by doing so, improve maternal and infant health in rural communities in Ghana. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MOTECH is a collaboration between the Grameen Foundation, the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, the Ghana Health Service, and CCNMTL.

The Grameen Foundation developed a suite of services delivered over basic mobile phones that provides health information to pregnant women and encourages them to seek antenatal care from local facilities. After the birth, the system addresses common questions about newborn care. Simultaneously, the MOTECH system collects information about patients for health workers. This information is used to identify women and newborns in their area in need of healthcare services and automates the patient-tracking process. CCNMTL created a proof-of-concept reporting system for MOTECH that shows how data about patients collected by health workers could be used in reports and visualizations to assist health managers who supervise Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) facilities.

Multimedia WORTH

Partner(s): Nabila El-Bassel Social Intervention Group, School of Social Work Access: Private Released: October 2009 VIEW PROJECT

WORTH is a computer-supported HIV prevention intervention for groups of drug-involved women who are on parole or in alternative to incarceration programs in New York. The goal of the intervention is to build positive peer norms and social support for HIV risk reduction. Multimedia WORTH is a collaboration between the Social Intervention Group (SIG) and CCNMTL. The multimedia intervention provides supplemental facilitator training, facilitator support resources, and participant activities. WORTH builds on CCNMTL and SIG's previous intervention projects to provide a combination of group activities and private activities for participants, and to include a narrative and cast of video characters who help lead participants through the intervention exercises.

Multimedia WORTH is funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and is part of a 5-year study to test the efficacy of multimedia versus traditional paper-based intervention models.

Masivukeni

Partner(s): Robert Remien Department of Psychiatry Access: Private Released: March 2009 VIEW PROJECT

Masivukeni is a counselor support tool for delivering an HIV-treatment adherence intervention in clinics in South Africa. It is a collaboration between Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and CCNMTL. Masivukeni was developed with the help of counselors, nurses, and volunteers at Hout Bay clinic where it is currently piloting. It provides a detailed protocol for counselors to follow when helping non-adherent patients, and provides patients with interactive activities and videos that help explain the importance of adherence, how HIV and HIV-treatment regiments affect the body, and how treatment resistance can develop.

Connect

Partner(s): Susan Witte School of Social Work Access: Private Released: June 2008 VIEW PROJECT

Multimedia Connect is a a computer-supported HIV prevention intervention for couples at risk for HIV developed by the School of Social Work's Social Intervention Group (SIG) and CCNMTL. The multimedia intervention provides supplemental facilitator training and support materials and participant activities. Together, SIG and CCNMTL have created a framework for delivering a proven intervention curriculum in a way that scaffolds the facilitator, while providing new options for national dissemination.

Multimedia Connect is funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and is part of a 5-year study testing ease of intervention adoption at community based organizations in New York State.

Related links:
Download the informational page (PDF)
Watch Multimedia Connect at NME 2008
Visit the Multimedia Connect prototype

Collateral Consequences Calculator

Partner(s): Conrad Johnson School of Law Access: Open to all Released: May 2010 VIEW PROJECT

Developed in partnership with Columbia Law School professor Conrad Johnson, the Collateral Consequences Calculator is a web-based "calculator" that allows legal practitioners to quickly and easily compare the collateral consequences of criminal charges associated with sections of the New York State Penal Law. The Collateral Consequences Calculator serves multiple communities: faculty can build case studies around it, lawyers can better counsel their clients, judges can assure appropriate sentencing, and public policy researchers can use it as a lens through which to examine the matrix of the New York State legal system. Judge Judith Kaye, former Chief Justice of New York State, has supported the development of this tool, which she sees as a valuable social justice initiative.

Related links:
Download the informational page (PDF)