Session D1:
Digital Interventions: Supporting Healthy Community and Life Changes

Michelle Hall, Jessica Rowe
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Increasingly, health practitioners are using technology-enabled interventions to improve awareness and support positive life changes. This session demonstrated three different projects that range from efforts to reduce maternal mortality (7.5 million pregnancy-related deaths per year), to reducing early childhood caries in at-risk children, to conveying the importance of HIV-treatment adherence. Each project was presented with attention to lessons learned that can be applied to other potential interventions.

About the presenter: Michelle Hall is a senior educational technologist for CCNMTL. She has focused on developing course-specific projects for faculty in the College of Dental Medicine and at the Mailman School of Public Health. FULL BIO -- Jessica Rowe is a senior program specialist leading the Triangle Initiative. Jessica oversees several large projects in the area of health, including NIMH-funded Multimedia Connect and NIDA-funded Multimedia WORTH. FULL BIO

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See also:

Masivukeni, a counselor support tool for delivering an HIV-treatment adherence intervention in clinics in South Africa.

MySmileBuddy, a mobile application to guide health workers assessing and counseling children at risk for early severe tooth decay.