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There are many websites on mHealth that exist on the web, those below are not comprehensive and represent a small list of those sites that were useful for the creation of this toolkit. If you have suggestions of more websites or resources please visit our discussion board and leave a comment. Click here for specific information on funding for mHealth.

Current | InterMedia

Summary: The goal of AudienceScapes is to provide an online tool and research program providing essential media use and communication information on developing countries from a bottom-up perspective, based on in-depth analysis by the AudienceScapes research team. The website offers detailed Country Communication Profiles outlining media use, ICT use and the general communication environment in a number of countries. Most importantly this information is broken down by key demographic groupings such as gender, age, income level and region.

Current | Baobab Health

Baobab Health is a Malawian NGO, providing eHealth solutions to the Ministry of Health, to help solve the healthcare crisis in Malawi. At the core of our system is a clinical touchscreen appliance that provides assistance to nurses and clinicians as they treat their patients. The touchscreen application guides healthcare workers through treatment protocol and simultaneously collects data that is needed by the Ministry of Health.

Current | Cell-Life

Cell-Life's vision is to improve the lives of people infected and affected by HIV in South Africa through the appropriate use of mobile technology.

Current | ChildCount+

ChildCount+ is a mobile phone and paper-based informational tool used by Community Health Workers to actively monitor children for malnutrition, malaria, and other childhood illnesses.

D-Tree International

Current | D-Tree International

D-tree International is a non-profit organization committed to changing the way health care is delivered in developing countries. We are dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare available to the world’s poor by using innovative technology to provide accurate and effective point-of-care diagnosis and treatment.

eMocha: electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application

Current | Johns Hopkins Medicine

eMOCHA is a free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA is designed to assist health programs in developing countries improve provider communication and education, as well as patient care, by coordinating wireless devices with local server-based clinical training and patient care support services.

Current | DataDyne

K4Health Blog about EpiSurveyor

EpiSurveyor lets anyone set up a worldwide, mobile-phone-based data collection system in minutes, for free. It is now the most widely used mobile data collection software in the world, with thousands of users in almost every country on earth.

Current | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles (EPROM) is part of the Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship aims to foster mobile phone-related research and entrepreneurship. Key activities include:

Current | FHI360-SATELLIFE

GATHERdata is a sophisticated, real time information, alerting, analysis and reporting platform that uses data collected on mobile devices. It includes tools for:

ICT for Development - Phone/Mobile

Current | The Communication Initiative Network

Summary: ICT for Development providing a database of programs using ICT/mobiles for health and other issues.

Current | iheed

Mission: Our mission is to identify, invest in and promote innovative health education and training solutions for Community Health Workers. Goals:

Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative (GmI)

Current | JHU Global mHealth Initiative

JHU Global mHealth Initiative (GmI) Project Overviews

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY GLOBAL mHEALTH INITIATIVE (JHU GmI) is a University-wide Community of Excellence, connecting faculty, staff and students in transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of mobile health. JHU GmI serves faculty, staff and students at Johns Hopkins, as well as global public and private sector partners, in identifying appropriate mHealth strategies for global health challenges and providing expertise in technology development, health content, efficacy research and program evaluation.

Current | Kiwanja.net

Summary: kiwanja.net believes that all non-profits, whatever their size and wherever they operate, should be given the opportunity to implement the latest mobile technologies in their work, and actively seeks to provide the tools and the environment to enable them to do so. In pursuit of this, kiwanja.net provides free consultancy, workshops and advice - and access to technology through its FrontlineSMS and nGOmobile initiatives - to all grassroots non-profits interested in exploring the social and environmental potential of mobile in their work

Map of 101 studies found by search of: mobile phone

Current | ClinicalTrials.gov

Link to Website

ClinicalTrials.gov has provided a search feature that shows how many of the clinical trial studies are in each region or country. For more information on a specific region click on the map and it will drill down to the individual clinical trial studies.

Current | Medic Mobile

Summary: In the developing world, lack of infrastructure prevents health workers from delivering efficient healthcare to rural areas. As health workers travel from clinics to reach isolated patients, they are often as disconnected from central clinics as the patients they are trying to serve. Many gaps and shortcomings of health systems can be addressed using simple, locally appropriate communication technologies.

mHealth Alliance

Current | mHealth Alliance

mHealth Alliance champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health throughout the world. Working with diverse partners to integrate mHealth into multiple sectors, the Alliance serves as a convener for the mHealth community to overcome common challenges by sharing tools, knowledge, experience, and lessons learned.

MobiHealth DC Meetup

Current | MobiHealth DC

MobiHealth DC is an organization and a venue that enables mobile health enthusiasts from government, academia, industry and not for profit organizations to meet, learn from each other and hopefully develop some meaningful relationships. We regularly hold meetings in and around DC. The events are held in the evenings to accommodate as many people as possible. Below are past presentations available for download.

Current | MobiHealthNews

Summary: MobiHealthNews chronicles the healthcare sector’s adoption of mobile technology: A convergence of two industries that is shaping the future of how healthcare is delivered to the patient on-the-go, at home and at their place of care.

Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action

Current | Maternal Health Taskforce

Summary: USAID and Johnson & Johnson, launched a new mhealth initiative focusing on maternal health, with support from the UN Foundation, the mHealth Alliance, and BabyCenter LLC.

Mobile For Good

Current | Mobile For Good

Mobile for Good (M4G) is a social franchise designed to use mobile phone technology to help alleviate poverty and improve the lives of people in the developing world. It delivers vital health, employment and community content via SMS on mobile phones in order to inform and empower disadvantaged individuals and help bridge the digital divide the widening technology gulf which exists between rich and poor countries.

Mobile Health Deployment Tracker

Current | GSMA

This tool tracks deployments of mobile health services around the globe, both those in their pilot phase and full active services. Countries currently not showing any deployments are marked with white dots, but you can still view health data for these countries. The filters at the top allow you to view the projects by whether they are a pilot or an active service; by the country in which the service is located; or by category of mobile health.

MobileActive.org

Current | MobileActive

Summary: MobileActive.org covers a comprehensive array of mobile technology programs for social change around the world. The mDirectory also organizes information by topical areas, including health.

Current | OpenROSA

Summary:The OpenROSA consortium was formed in an effort to create a set of standards to allow for mobile data collection tools to interoperate. These standards allow you to mix-and-match tools to. . . (1) Design a form to collect data, (2) render that form on a mobile device, and (3) store collected data on a server to analyze.

Praekelt Foundation

Current | Praekelt

Praekelt Foundation was founded in early 2007 by Gustav Praekelt and Robin Miller in response to the opportunities created by the rapid and unprecedented spread of mobile phones across Africa. Gustav, a digital entrepreneur and obsessive technologist, saw how many of the mobile technologies his consultancy developed could be used to give communities access to services & information which had previously been inaccessible.

Current | Star Programme

The SMS Bulktool is an online application which allows organisations to send multiple SMS messages to their target groups. This application is used by the participating NGOs to inform their audience about the risks of HIV/AIDS, upcoming events and to send reminders on taking medication.

Technology Salon

Current | Technology Salon

Summary: The Technology Salon is an intimate, informal, and in person, discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both:technology's impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and private enterprise driven economic development, facilitated by technology.

Current | Text To Change

Text to Change (TTC) is driven by the belief that the cell phone is becoming more and more affordable and accessible, also at the poorest level of the population and among the youth. Access to information in the developing world is a well-known challenge. Text to Change plays a vital role in improving lives - even in the most isolated areas - by connecting people via their mobile phones. We also collect participants’ data for analysis, which then helps us to plan our campaigns more effectively.

United Nations Mobile Health for Development

Current | USAID

Summary: Quality health care is a key component to improving economies and helping lift people and communities out of poverty. Yet estimates like those from the Global Policy Forum show that less than $11 a year is spent on health care for people. Through our Technology Partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, we are harnessing the power of mobile technologies to improve the quality of health data and public health decision-making in the developing world.

Current | WelTel

WelTel is an international organisation, committed to providing evidence-based, patient-centred health solutions, through the use of innovative, mobile technology in the management of HIV/AIDS and other health issues. WelTel is one of the first scientific teams in the developing world to show evidence for mHealth and adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ARV's) in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

MAMA - free adaptable health messages for the mobile phone

2012 | BabyCenter

The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)* is delighted to share news about a set of free health messages formatted for delivery through mobile phones. MAMA adaptable health messages are specifically designed to support mothers through pregnancy and the first year of child development. They have been created by MAMA supporting partner BabyCenter - a leading source of information on pregnancy and childcare - with the help of a medical advisory board, and are intended as a helpful resource for programs that use mobile phones to reach new and expectant mothers.

mobile media toolkit: making media mobile

2011 | MobileActive.org

The Mobile Media Toolkit is a project of MobileActi

Funding for mHealth

Lists funding opportunities for mHealth, including funding descriptions, links, and deadlines.

Development Innovation Fund

7/21/2011 | USAID

Summary: Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) brings together diverse innovators from academia, the private sector and NGOs to identify, develop, and transition to scale promising approaches to pressing development problems around the world. Development Innovation Ventures aims to institutionalize further in USAID the serendipitous process by which great ideas are conceptualized, developed, refined to meet real-world operational challenges, tested, and ultimately scaled up to change the world in fundamental ways.

Advancing the Dialogue on Mobile Finance and Mobile Health: Country Case Studies

2012 | mHealth Alliance | Pages: 30

Link to Full Text

The objectives of this second report are to:

Apps for Development

2011 | CORE Group

Summary: The World Bank is challenging the public to create innovative software applications that move us a step closer toward solving some of the world's most pressing problems. About Apps for Development

TASC 4-ICT for Health (Technical Assistance Support Contract 4-Information and Communications for Health)

2010 | USAID

The Technical Assistance Support Contract 4-Information and Communications Technology for Health (TASC 4-ICT Health) IDIQ shall provide services in support of Missions and other USAID operating units to achieve the unit's population, health, nutrition and infectious disease objectives and will be managed by the Global Health Bureau, Health Infectious Diseases and Nutrition (GH/HIDN). For more information: Solicitation Number:

Highlights

Compendium of New and Emerging Health Technologies (WHO)

mBCC Field Guide

ClinicalTrials.gov map of mobile phone studies

Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid

Join the mHealth Working Group

Health Areas

Chronic Diseases

Family Planning/Reproductive Health

HIV/AIDS

Malaria

Nutrition

Tuberculosis