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Government of Jamaica Launches CommCare as COVID-19 Vaccination Management Platform

In a partnership with Dimagi, UNICEF and the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI), the Government of Jamaica has rapidly launched a digital system to manage COVID-19 vaccine delivery across the country using CommCare.

July 28, 2021

The Value of User Testing: Supporting Community Health Workers With Digital Tools in India

Dimagi has partnered with Johnson & Johnson to explore the development of an evidence-based, free, and adaptable mobile messaging framework to boost health worker resilience.

July 27, 2021

Learning from COVID-19: How Investments in Frontline Digital Tools Now Can Prepare Us for the Next Pandemic

Dimagi, Medic, & 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.

July 20, 2021

Designing Digital Tools to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy in High-Risk US Populations

As the United States moves to the next stage of pandemic response, Dimagi is working with Abt Associates and local partners to fight vaccine hesitancy in some of the country's most vulnerable populations.

June 7, 2021

Supporting Local Ownership of CommCare Solutions in Cambodia

Teuk Saat 1001 is a non-profit organization supporting rural water treatment and vending in Cambodia that has become an excellent example of a locally-owned program able to operate and make updates to their CommCare application independently.

March 3, 2021

MiracleFeet: Managing a Worldwide Network of Providers in the Time of COVID-19

MiracleFeet uses CommCare to track their partners' treatment of ClubFoot around the world. In this Q&A, MiracleFeet Co-Founder & CEO Chesca Colloredo-Mansfield explains MiracleFeet's work and how it has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 28, 2020

Supporting COVID-19 Response Across Africa

With the coronavirus continuing to spread across the continent, Dimagi is partnering directly with NGOs and ministries of health across Africa to help implement CommCare for everything from workplace screening to facility readiness and contact tracing.

August 18, 2020

Powering scalable, fast, and secure contact tracing solutions with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to helping their customers address the challenges brought about by COVID-19. In this post, originally shared on their Public Sector Blog, highlights Dimagi's work with the New York State Department of Health in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 7, 2020

A Human-Centered Approach to Digital Contact Tracing Programs

Anne Liu, an expert on mobile tools for disease surveillance, shares her experience supporting the Government of Guinea in launching a national digital contact tracing program during the 2014 Ebola epidemic.

July 27, 2020

Dimagi and Partners Develop Digital Resources to Support Infants Affected by the Opioid Epidemic

Dimagi is leading a federally-funded project to develop digital tools for the care of infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and has recently a new online course with Harvard Medical School.

June 15, 2020

Using Mobile Data Collection to Improve Life for Farmers in Haiti

Haitian management firm Papyrus S.A. partnered with BRANA, USAID, the IDB, and Dimagi to develop the supply chain for Heineken subsidiaries in Haiti, while improving the yields and livelihoods of Haitian farmers. Learn more about the app they're using to do it.

April 11, 2019

How FIGO Used Mobile Data Collection to Improve Maternal Healthcare Across Six Countries

Learn how the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) is working to help the almost 214 million women of reproductive age in low-income regions who want to avoid pregnancy but have no modern way to do so.

February 19, 2019

How to Design a Mobile Data Collection App for Scale

Learn how Terre des hommes updated the structure of their mobile data collection app to support over 4,000 healthcare workers treating 180,000 young children in 700 clinics across Burkina Faso.

November 15, 2018

4 Content Design Tips for Mobile Data Collection Apps from Save the Children

On a project with Save the Children Kenya to build a mobile data collection application for over 1,200 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in Bungoma County, we grappled with the issue of taking existing forms and government indicators and transforming them into a coherent, efficient service delivery and data collection app. These are the issues we faced and how you can overcome them in your own project.

November 13, 2018

Unlock the Power of Feedback Mechanisms in Mobile Data Collection

Mobile data collection apps unlock new feedback mechanisms that can improve worker performance and program outcomes.

September 25, 2018

Leveraging Mobile Data Collection in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Find out how mobile data collection apps are aiding in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

May 29, 2018

Mobile Data Collection App for Clubfoot Treatment with MiracleFeet

In 2016, MiracleFeet received a three-year, $1 million grant from Google to work on using healthcare technology innovation to creatively address clubfoot treatment.

May 28, 2018

Digitizing Coffee Agronomy Training & Monitoring

Can you digitize coffee agronomy? Learn how TechnoServe went digital with CommCare to monitor training sessions and improve reporting.

December 15, 2017

Technology in the Hands of Midwives: Seeing the Impact of Our Work

Partner: Asociación Corazón del Agua Industry: Health Location: Guatemala Purpose:  The Asociación Corazón del Agua is implementing the first university-level midwifery course in Guatemala. Using CommCare they built an app to help this new cohort of midwives gather and analyze data more quickly and efficiently in the field.   I am Gabriela Meléndez, intercultural midwife and

August 15, 2017

In the Classroom: Real Apps for Real Global Health

Event: Fifth Annual Mobile Health Showcase Industry: Public Health Education Background:  James Wolff, associate professor of global health at Boston University’s School of Public Health, recently organized the fifth annual Mobile Health Showcase to be held at Dimagi. Students from Professor Wolff’s class, “Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health Outcomes,” presented the mobile health applications

July 27, 2017

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