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1 | Name of project/organization | Lead organization | Funders and collaborators | Contact information | Value to mHIFA goal | Geography | Target audience | Maternal health/child health/first aid/other (HIV/AIDS for example) | Detailed Description | Platform (basic phone, feature phone, smartphone), associated company software/infrastructure, description of project | Videos/App/Both | Videos for Feature Phones/Smart Phones/Both | Apps for Feature Phones/Smart Phones/Both | Phone/internet connection needed? | Pre-loaded (on phone or SD card) or downloadable app (free?) | URLs | Date launched | Phase of development (completed, in process, planned, scaling up, failed, etc.) | Associated publication citation | Type of publication | Source | Notes |
2 | Note: Tens of thousands of men, women and children die every day due to failure to provide timely life-saving interventions - interventions that are often locally available but not given in time. Many more suffer lifelong suffering and disability as a result of incorrect handling (for example, quadriparesis caused by rough handling of a road traffic accident victim with unsuspected neck injury). HIFA (www.hifa2015.org) is a global social movement that aims to create a world where people are no longer dying for lack of basic healthcare knowledge (including but not limited to first aid and maternal and child health). HIFA members - who include representatives of more than 2500 organisations worldwide - have defined one of the steps we believe is necessary to realise such a world: the mHIFA SMART Goal (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic Time-bound). We are grateful to Heather Kartzinel and Chris Hagar of the San Jose State University for their preliminary desk research (September 2013 - November 2013) presented here to identify mHIFA-relevant projects worldwide. Our research identified only SEVEN relevant projects among an estimated total of 1500 mHealth projects. Since our research was completed, we have identifed a further ONE (highly) relevant project (Smart Health - see below). This indicates a serious lack of mhealth projects that empower people with the information they need to deal effectively with acute healthcare situations. By contrast, there is a plethora of projects that push health education messages to citizens (these projects are undoubtedly important, but arguably do little to empower citizens with as-needed information to guide first aid and decision-making in childhood illness. This table will serve as a monitor of progress towards the mHIFA goal. We invite you to contact us with comments and suggestions: mHIFA@hifa2015.org Version 2: 21 December 2013 - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A DRAFT WORK IN PROGRESS AND WE DO NOT HAVE RESOURCES TO VERIFY ALL INFORMATION. Thanks, Neil Pakenham-Walsh and mHIFA Working Group | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | First Aid App | British Red Cross (There is also an American Red Cross version for US citizens, but we did not find a version targeted for low and middle income countries, and we did not find versions in languages other than English.). | British Red Cross, UK Office, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL UK: information@redcross.org.uk; app developed by 3 Sided Cube Design Ltd., County Gates House, 300 Poole Road, Bournemouth, BH12 1AZ UK: holla@3sidedcube.com and http://www.3sidedcube.com/#work/british-red-cross | In theory, if every citizen had this on their mobile phone, then every person would be better informed to save lives and reduce complications in cases of trauma, choking, drowning, cardiac arrent, and other life-threatening conditions. | United Kingdom | General population | First aid | This free app provides advice on 18 everyday first aid situations in the form of videos, quizzes, and step-by-step guides, in additional to tips for emergency preparedness. http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/First-aid/Mobile-app | Smartphone | ? | ? | App for smartphones | on- and off-line | Free downloadable app (Apple or Google Play) | redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/First-aid/Mobile-app | ? | Ongoing | GSMA mHealth Tracker (http://www.mobileworldlive.com/mhealth-tracker; category: prevention) | Similar tools are needed in other languages. Similar tools are needed that include first aid information relevant to country, eg how to treat snake-bite (rural India). | |||
4 | Health eVillages | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (non-profit) | Physicians Interactive, Allscripts, Sun Tactics, Medical Aid Films, Skyscape (all tech) | Donato Tramuto, Founder or Matt Linder, Program Manager, 55 Walkers Brook Drive, Reading, Massachusetts, 01867 USA: info@healthevillages.org; Merrill Press, Sponsorship or Programmatic Inquiries: merrill.press@healthevillages.org | App content for medical professionals, ties with Apple (iPad), international scope | China, Haiti, Kenya, Rural Louisiana, Uganda | Clinicians "in some of the poorest, most underserved areas on the globe" | General health | iPad | off-line | Pre-loaded | healthevillages.org | 2011 | Expanding | mhealthalliance.org, healthunbound.org | Featured in Apple video: http://www.apple.com/ios/videos/ (first segment); for program inquiries contact Merrill Press at merrill.press@healthevillages.org | ||||||
5 | HealthPhone | The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust (non-profit) | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Development Programms (UNDP), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), World Food Programms (WFP), The World Bank, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, India, Government of Maharashtra, India, Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Global Health Media Project, Medical Aid Films, Alive & Thrive, Grampari, TeachAIDS, The Three Amigos HIV/AIDS Campaign, Buzz & Bite Malaria Campaign, No Excuses - Prevent Domestic Violence and Abuse Campaign, iheedCrowd, Hands to Hearts International, digitalGreen, Translators Without Borders, dotSUB, Videum, MobileRoadie, Riddhi | info@motherchildtrust.org; also Nand Wadhwani, a Founding Trustee of The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust: nand@motherchildtrust.org | Pre-loaded media, huge collaborative effort, how to reach deeply into a country | Global | Health workers, medical students, girls, women, families, communities, rural village and urban slum dwellers, illiterates | General health practices and nutrition information, "over 125 key health messages" based on the Facts for Life publication (HIV, Malaria, Family planning, Maternal and child health, Nutrition, Immunization, Tuberculosis, General) | HealthPhone provides families with their own personal reference library and guide to better health practices and nutrition. Content, which is scripted on knowledge prepared jointly by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and The World Bank, can be pre-loaded on popular low-cost models of mobile phones, then users choose what they want to watch and listen to and when, wherever they happen to be. The scope of the projects includes a substantial focus on village women. We are currently exploring and discussing ways to integrate and package HealthPhone with other mobile health efforts so that we can rapidly achieve wide distribution; especially towards getting it into the hands of village women. Once the video content has been produced, there is little additional cost in building capacity and scaling up. i.e. about US$2 per health worker or villager for the complete health video reference library on a microSD card. Initial projects are currently being conducted in Maharashtra and West Bengal. We aim to reach 20,000 villages in India by early 2015 and are committing to at least 10 years of effort to be able to ensure that the concept takes root and is sustainable in a number of countries. | Popular low-cost models of mobile phones, smartphones, tablets, microSD card; available in 61 languages | Both | Both | Both | off-line | Pre-loaded/embedded videos or on removeable media | healthphone.org | 2012 | Expanding | mhealthalliance.org/media-a-resources/members-news/143-health-phone-and-the-power-of-knowledgeable-mothers | Online news article | HIFA2015 forum; mHealth Working Group Inventory (http://www.mhealthworkinggroup.org/project) | See website for content and technology partners, also see http://globalhealthmedia.org/about/dissemination/ for content |
6 | Malezi-Bora | Zoe Alexander Ltd. (non-profit) | donations, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Zoe Alexander Ltd., The Greenhouse, Ngong Road, Near Adams Arcade, P.O. Box 939 - 00606, Nairobi, Kenya: info@zoe-alexander.org | Novel dissemination approach, local language content | Africa | Mothers | Maternal and newborn health | Malezi-Bora is a mobile application, availed in local languages, with audio content regarding maternal and newborn health. It works on ultra-low-cost handsets and leverages village social networks, utilizing a pay-it-forward business model designed to incentivize mothers to virally share its content. Mapping technology identifies mothers in distress. It focuses on addressing the inability of current health information-sharing systems gaining critical-mass usage and the inability of community health workers to reach every mother. It creates scenarios that ensure that mothers in dispersed villages have access to life-saving information regarding maternal and newborn health. It is unconventional as it incentivizes “piracy” - continuous re-distribution of content. Mothers will have access to audio information that is critical to both their own survival as well as their newborns, and they will actively seek to share this information with other mothers since doing this will result in a direct financial benefit to them. Data generated will facilitate understanding of how social networks in villages work and enable easy identification of key persons who can be utilized as initial distribution points of critical info. It is changing behaviors of mothers-to-be and influencing the critical choices they make regarding their babies | "ultra-low-cost handsets" with location-mapping technology, audio content in local language, mothers are paid when content is redistributed/shared | ? | Downloadable? | savinglivesatbirth.net/summaries/34 | 2007 or 2011? | Ongoing | CHMI (healthmarketinnovations.org) | See also http://zoe-alexander.org/malezi (old website) and http://zoe-alexander.org/health/index.php?page=mobile (MAMA-TELE app) | |||||
7 | mMitra | ARMMAN (tech), Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health @ UCSF | software engineers and animators from prestigious US and Indian universities and corporations; SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education, and Health Action); MCGM (Municipal Corporation for Greater Mumbai); Inscripts (I) Pvt. Ltd (tech); Plus91 Technologies (tech); Thought Bubbles (tech) | Armman India, Operations Office, Unit No. 43, Second Floor, Oasis Industrial Estate, Opp. Vakola Masjid, Santacriz (East), Mumbia - 400055, India: armmanindia@armman.org; also Dr. William Thies (technology advisor), researcher at Microsoft Research India, Developing Technologies for Emerging Markets Group, 196/36 2nd Main, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore, 560080, India: thies@microsoft.com and Dr. Suellen Miller, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, 3333 California Street, Suite 335, Box 0744, San Francisco, California, 94143-0744 US: suellenmiller@gmail.com | Pre-loaded localized video and messaging content | India | Rural pregnant women and new mothers | Maternal health | mMitra Voice and Animation is a new mobile voice messaging and animated film service in rural India that will provide culturally appropriate comprehensive information on preventative care and simple instructions to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity. | "free mobile voice messaging and animated film service on preventive care and simple interventions to prevent perinatal mortality and morbidity;" singe trained & trusted individual in rural village shows it to women, in local dialect, timed based on woman's gestational age or age of newborn | off-line | Pre-loaded "animations coded into them" | armman.org/mmitra | 2012? | Expanding | healthunbound.org | See http://www.armman.org/Research (conducting long-term randomized controlled trial now) | |||||
8 | Newborn Care Series | Global Health Media Project | USAID/MCHIP | Deb Van Dyke, Global Health Media Project, 30 Common Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673-7331, USA: globalhealthmediaproject@gmail.com | Videos being watched on YouTube in 198 countries | Global | Mothers | Maternal and child health, also video series about cholera | A series of 35+ clinical videos on newborn care best practices, following international standards of care. They are carefully scripted to provide clear step-by-step instruction, filmed on location in the developing countries, and voiced over so they can be narrated in many languages. Designed and formatted for free download from the internet to mobile devices. Translations provided by Translators Without Borders. According to YouTube analytics, the newborn care videos have been viewed in 198 countries (including territories). The largest number of views (after the US) come from India and Mexico. Overall, our videos have been viewed more than 150,000 times, and more than 9,000 copies have been downloaded. | Mobile Web, feature phone, smartphone, tablet | on- and off-line | Videos downloadable, pre-loaded or viewable online | globalhealthmedia.org | 2012 | Expanding | vpr.net/news_detail/93259/using-film-to-teach-medicine-save-lives/ | MP3 radio interview | mHealth Working Group Inventory (http://www.mhealthworkinggroup.org/project) | Voiced-over versions now in Swahili and Spanish thanks to Translators Without Borders | |||
9 | Safe Pregnancy and Birth App | Hesperian Health Guides | Gates Foundation, UnaMesa Association | Robin Young, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator, Hesperian Health Guides, 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304 Berkeley, CA 94704 USA: robin@hesperian.org | Downloadable app adapted from internationally recognized health texts | Global | Mothers | Maternal and child health | Hesperian’s Safe Pregnancy and Birth mobile app, currently available for free download on Android and iPhone, has been downloaded over 24,000 times in 155 countries. It incorporates health content that has been field-tested by community groups in over 50 countries, and aims to support thousands of women, midwives, and health workers to ensure safer pregnancies and births by providing health information that is medically accurate, accessibly written, and empowering. Hesperian Health Guides has been awarded $10,000 by Intel Corporation and Ashoka Changemakers as a winner of the “She Will Innovate” competition. This app was chosen out of 292 submissions from 54 countries as one of three entries which most represents “the world’s most innovative solutions that equip girls and women with new digital technologies — enabling them to live healthier, smarter, and more meaningful lives.” Now available in English and Spanish. | Smartphone, tablet, mobile web | on- or off-line | Free downloadable app | hesperian.org/books-and-resources/safe-pregnancy-and-birth-mobile-app/ | 2011? | Ongoing | hesperian.org/2012/11/15/hesperian-wins-awardor-safe-pregnancy-and-birth-mobile-app/ | Online news article/press release | mHealth Working Group Inventory (http://www.mhealthworkinggroup.org/project); also posted on HIFA2015 forum by Robin Young, USA | iTunes site link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/safe-pregnancy-and-birth/id496919735?mt=8; see also press kit at http://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Hesperian%20Promo/Hesperian_press_packet_rev.pdf | |||
10 | Smart Health (added March 2014) | Samsung Africa & Mobilium | Mobilium, Global Fund, The Isabel Healthcare Mission, LifeSaver, Samsung Africa | Ralph Simon at ralph@mobilium.com | Free download and preloaded on all new Samsung phones in Africa | Africa | African citizens | HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Injection Safety. Includes general symptom checker. | http://mobilium.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1st-October-2013_Mobilium-Smart-Health-Hub-Press-Release.pdf 'Mobilium announces the launch of the first ever Pan-African Mobile Health Delivery Network that will be big game changer enhancing health and wellness for Africans in Africa. Capitalising on the penetration and massive current and future growth of androidbased smartphone and tablet devices throughout Africa, Mobilium Global is proud to announce the launch of its Smart Health application....android ... health and wellness, free and free to use, smartphone application for specific use by, for, and of Africans. The application, called the Smart Health app, is a project that is focused on providing an accurate baseline information resource on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria as well as invaluable knowledge on a number of ancillary topics such as Injection Safety. Future releases will include information on nutrition and Prenatal/Postnatal mother and newborn care. The application also incorporates an intuitive, easy to use mobile web based symptom checker - the Isabel Symptom Checker app, which is listed in the NHS Choices Health Apps Library of safe and trusted apps (reviewed by the NHS). ... available as a free download to African mobile subscribers/consumers and is aimed at enhancing the health, health maintenance, health behaviors and ultimately the future health of individuals and their communities across the continent. ... the Smart Health app will also be factory embedded on all new Samsung smartphones and tablet devices distributed in Africa... Download the app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=za.co.mobilium.globalfund&hl=en | Android smartphone | App | No | App for smartphone | Yes, but some features can be used off-line | Pre-loaded on all Africa mobile phones Samsung. App is freely downloadable. | http://mobilium.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1st-October-2013_Mobilium-Smart-Health-Hub-Press-Release.pdf | 2013 | IN process | http://mobilium.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1st-October-2013_Mobilium-Smart-Health-Hub-Press-Release.pdf | |||
11 | Oppia Mobile (added March 2014) | Digital Campus - http://digital-campus.org | DFID | alex@digital-campus.org | targeted to health workers but replicable | Ethiopia | health workers | OppiaMobile is a mobile learning platform for delivering learning content, video and quizzes. All the content and activities can be accessed and used even when no internet connection is available. When a connection becomes available, tracking and quiz scores are sent back to the server for tutors, teachers and trainers to track the progress of their learners. Learners earn points and badges for completing activities and modules. | Android smartphone | Both | Videos for smartphones | Connection required to first log in and install the courses - after that the app will run completely offline - although tracking/usage information is submitted to the server when a connection is available | Freely downloadable from Google store. Courses and videos may be preloaded onto the SD card | http://oppia-mobile.org/ | Jan 2013 | In process | ||||||