Location:
Global, with a focus on Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Our Role:
Convener of the Digital Health Technical Reference Team
Resources:
Global, with a focus on Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Our Role:
Convener of the Digital Health Technical Reference Team
Resources:
- Digital Health in Demand Generation Toolkit
- Digital Health RMNCH Toolkit
- m-iCCM Harmonization Report and Framework
- UNCoLSC Advocacy Toolkit
- mHealth and Neonatal Resuscitation: A Review of Interventions, Approaches and Applications
- mHealth and Neonatal Resuscitation: Opportunities to Increase Adoption and Utilization of Neonatal Resuscitation Equipment, Using Mobile Health in Tanzania
- mHealth Support Tools for Improving the Performance of Frontline Health Workers
The United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) was founded in 2012 as a part of the ‘Every Woman, Every Child’ initiative to increase access to and awareness of 13 overlooked life-saving commodities for women and children (e.g., oxytocin, antenatal corticosteroids, chlorhexidine, contraceptive implants). Technical Reference Teams (TRTs) were established to carry out the Commission’s mandate, and the Digital Health TRT was set-up to operate across all commodities, enhancing commodity access and availability.
Partners
UNCoLSC TRTs (Child Health, convened by UNICEF and CHAI; Newborn Health, convened by PATH); D-tree; Moi University Institute of Biomedical Informatics
Activities
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- Supported the work of multiple TRTs in demand generation: mobile tools for behaviour change communications
- Developed a strategy for harmonization and coordination of mobile tools to support integrated community case management (m-iCCM)
- Provided general technical advisory support on digital health
Results
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- Developed a harmonization framework for scaling up mobiles for integrated community case management (m-iCCM) that can be applied more broadly
- Extended the reach of health worker training on the preparation and application of chlorhexidine in Kenya and, separately, magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) globally
- Provided technical advice to the TRTs on digital health
- Developed toolkits highlighting resources and best practices on digital health