Mobiles, Development & Global Health Training: A way forward

The mCHW project

Anne Geniets

University of Oxford

What was your aim and what challenge in mHealthwere you addressing? • To design, develop, implement and evaluate a mobile

learning intervention to support the professional education of CHVs and CHEWs

• By doing so:– Contribute to the evidence base on the effectiveness of

mobile-based activities to increase CHWs' capabilities through CHEW supervision/mentorship and peer learning

• To determine how mobile based supervision and training can be embedded within existing local primary health infrastructure

Referral App

• Focus: Developmental Milestones

• Leverages on Smart phone technology

• Supports referral decision making

• Update based on feedback

Participatory Action Research

CHW CHEW

What was critical to successfully addressing this challenge?

• UCL-Amref-Oxford Partnership & relationship with CHVs and CHEWs in our two communities in Kenya

• Technology & Resources

• Complex challenge – complex intervention

What three key impacts do you feel you’ve made?

• We’ve shown that with enough upfront understanding of the context and of people’s practice

• Mobile intervention is:

– Training tool

– Job aid

– Data collection tool

– Community mobilisation & advocacy

• Mobile tools– Mobile job aid & supervision: REFER App

– Mentorship & social support: Whatsapp

– App development for CHEWs: ALPHA App

• Training– Formal: MoH & CHEWs

– On-the-ground: Peer-to-peer

– Capacity building: Amref – Oxford/UCL

• Community support – For those with children with disabilities

– Exchange visits

• Four key areas of contributions of a mobile health and training intervention

– For CHVs and CHEWs

– For the community

– For mHealth programming & research

– For Health Systems Strengthening

What technologies are you using? (Olajide)

• Leverages on smartphone technology

• HTML 5, works online and offline

• http://www.mchw.org |@m_CHW