Interview conducted by Michael Korir, one of Medic’s Project Managers based in Nairobi, Kenya. Pictured above, Mercy Amulele. Medic is a diverse team made up of designers, developers, researchers, and public health specialists. We are united by a common desire to improve health outcomes in rural communities around the world. At Medic, Project […]
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Post authored by Beatrice Wasunna, Senior Researcher. The figure above shows Muso’s 360° Supervision system to actively and regularly mentor Community Health Workers for improved performance. Our research and model-building partner Muso has achieved some of the lowest child mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, and we’re excited to share the results of a study that Muso and the
Olivia Ng recently concluded her summer internship with Medic in our Nairobi office. Below, she shares stories and insights from a field visit to Siaya County, Kenya where we were conducting training sessions with new users of our mobile tools. Olivia is a rising junior at Tufts University majoring in Community
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Our mission at Medic Mobile is to support health workers as they provide care to those in the hardest-to-reach communities around the world. Equitable care and equitable health outcomes are key to our mission. Since 2016 we have been working with partners and researchers to develop and refine an Equity
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Post authored by Dushala Adhikari, one of Medic’s Project Managers based in our Kathmandu office. Every day in Nepal, six women die from preventable pregnancy-related health conditions due to inaccessibility of timely care before, during, or after delivery. Many of these deaths are caused by three infamous delays – delays in identifying
Post authored by Samuel Mbuthia, Tech Lead. Above, Medic teammates visited Siaya County, Kenya earlier this year (from left – Michael Korir, Jane Katanu, Sara Hollis, Mercy Amulele and Samuel Mbuthia). In the health sector, human-centered design involves a combination of empathy and community participation to optimize service delivery. At Medic, human-centered
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Post authored by Matt Cane, Medic’s Data Scientist. It’s an exciting time at Medic, as we’re in the early stages of our journey into data science. We feel data science has tremendous potential to help us better understand the challenges facing health workers, and to allow us to design tools to
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Post submitted by Julie Smith, Medic’s Director of Development. Above, panelists on Skoll’s “Leveraging Technology To Close The Distance In Global Health Access” session. Last week, I attended the 2018 Skoll World Forum with our CEO, Josh Nesbit. The theme of the gathering was “The Power of Proximity.” According to Sally Osberg,
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Pictured above, our new Asia Regional Director – Shreya Bhatt! Earlier this quarter, Jay Evans transitioned out of his role as Asia Regional Director. Jay had been with Medic Mobile since 2013 and it was under his leadership that set up our Asia Regional office in Kathmandu. Over the next
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Ahead of this years’ World Health Worker Week, April 1-7, we are excited to announce that we will be holding Medic Mobile’s first giving day this year – Help Us Help Health Workers: 24 Hours of Support for Medic Mobile. We are taking this opportunity to highlight the health workers that
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