mobile content for frontline health workers

mHealth Workshop October 15th 2013

Almat Alemu, Health

Extension Worker

Frontline health workers are the first and often the only link to health care formillions of people living in the developing world. They are the most immediate and cost effective way to save lives and improve health

Frontline Health Workers Coalition

Why mPowering Frontline Health Workers?

The challenges

• Inadequate training and continuing professional development• Inappropriate learning resources (context, language and level)• Lack of clinical decision support• Inability to make timely diagnosis, treatment, referral and follow up• Inefficient data collection and real-time monitoring• Inability to ensure patient adherence to treatment

Lack of sustainable and scalable responses

with the mission to contribute to the eliminationof preventable child and maternal deathsby accelerating the use of mobile technologyto improve the skills and performance of frontline health workers

What is mPowering Frontline Health Workers?

Public Private PartnershipLaunched in 2012 by USAID and the mHealth Alliance

Founding Partners

Who’s involved in mPowering?

Partners’ roles …

Resource partners bring cash and in-kind donations,technology, health content and technical assistance

Advocacy partners create the awareness needed to mobilize resources

Implementing partners create and adapt technology solutionsand health content

Research partners will conduct formative,operations and evaluation research to improve solutions,document best practices and encourage global learning

Who else is mPowering collaborating with?

UN Commission on Life Saving CommoditiesMDG Health AllianceOne Million Community Health WorkersFrontline Health Workers CoalitionmHealth Working GroupBackPack Plus

MCHIP Barr FoundationMAMA Comic ReliefAccenture DfIDDigital Campus BMJ (British Medical Journal)

4. Advocacy efforts to raise awareness of mHealth’s potential andto encourage continuous learning and exchange

Four core areas of activity …

1. Create a multi-media crowd-sourced health content librarythat can be integrated into mobile applications

2. Support mHealth programs in six countries go beyond pilotto scale

3. Undertake research and evaluation of projects tobuild evidence of highest-impact mHealth interventions