Author: Chrisgone Adede, Senior Researcher, Data Science Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly recognized for their contributions in increasing access to health care services and healthcare seeking-behaviors, as well as improving clinical outcomes given their proximity to the communities they serve. Digital tools have been noted to provide the opportunity …
Post author: Mourice Barasa, Research Officer for Monitoring & Data Systems Precision public health is an emerging practice to have more granularity in prediction and understanding of public health risks while customizing treatments for more specific and homogeneous subpopulations, often using new data, technologies, and methods. It is about delivering …
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Post author: Jennifer Quesada, Software Developer Countries around the world continue to grapple with the most effective way to access and analyze robust, centralized data around the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, we collectively face the critical need to respond quickly to local outbreaks, limiting the toll of the virus at …
FCHVs share how mHealth training and remote care coordination have become a lifeline between frontline health workers and patients during COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal.
A year into our partnership, Dimagi, Medic, and The Rockefeller Foundation have collaborated on a report to explore how investments in digital platforms for frontline workers today can help prepare for future pandemics.
Introducing “caring activities” – Medic’s new principal metric and a better measure of all of the ways the CHT supports care today, and how we might support care in our next decade of work.
We launched a global search for our next CEO. Brittany Hume Charm, one of Medic’s Board of Directors, shares more!
A joint partnership equipped 564 community health workers with a mobile app, called MaliKaKeneya, to screen six communes of the Bamako District in Mali for COVID-19.
In Q1 2021, we’re thrilled to launch a refreshed brand. We’re dropping the “Mobile” from our name to move forward as simply “Medic” – a beloved moniker as old as the organization itself.
Dear Community, It has been a great honor to serve in the role of CEO for the past 11 years. My approach has been to recruit people smarter than me, equip them with the resources they need to do inspired work for others, and make sure everyone involved could focus …
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