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Dimagi Receives Grand Challenges Grant for Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use

Dimagi is thrilled to announce today that it is a winner of a Grand Challenges grant – an initiative fostering innovation to solve pressing global health and development problems and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With this funding, the Dimagi team, led by Dr. Neal Lesh, Dimagi’s Chief Strategy Officer, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project focused on Catalyzing Equitable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use, titled Closing the Supervision Gap: An LLM-Powered Coach for Frontline Workers.

The CommCare Provider Program

Learn more about the CommCare Provider Program and the important work it does to support local capacity building and strengthening in low- and middle-income countries.

Researcher Spotlight: Nick Tarantino, PhD

Nick Tarantino, PhD, a psychologist and Assistant Professor at Brown University, discusses his research on HIV treatment-adherence in Ghana as well as his use of gamification through mobile phones, and the challenge of making mHealth interventions locally appropriate.

Getting to Know Each Other: Tech Team Summit 2022

Dimagi's tech team holds its first in-person summit in 4 years, navigating its way to bringing together the team's global workforce.

Digital Health Must Invest in Local Digital Ecosystems

Donors and aid programs deploying innovative solutions tend to displace local digital ecosystems. That needs to change as the rise of technology talent in Africa necessitates the importance of fostering local tech markets and the disruptive influence that international funding can have.

Embarking on the Journey to Self-Reliance in Malawi

USAID's Journey to Self-Reliance initiative is an effort to eventually eliminate the need for foreign assistance. Learn how Dimagi has been hard at work to arm countries around the world with the tools and expertise they need to support their communities in need since the very beginning.

A Year of COVID-19 Response With CommCare

More than a year on from the release of our first template applications for COVID-19 response, look at how our partners have been putting them to use across the globe.

How Dimagi Is Helping to Fight Tuberculosis Around the World

While tuberculosis (TB) incidence has decreased worldwide, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still bear the greatest burden. That's why Dimagi is working with governments and implementing partners around the world to fight the disease.

A National-Scale mHealth Program for South Africa

Supported by CommCare, South Africa's WBPHCOT program focuses on improving nutrition, reproductive health, primary care, and social services across the country.

USAID Highlights CommCare Nutrition Projects From Around the World

A new USAID Advancing Nutrition report features CommCare-supported projects in Africa, South America, and Asia.

How Dimagi Helps Deliver Impact Remotely

Due to the pandemic, Dimagi has shifted to a fully remote project execution approach to ensure we continue to deliver maximum impact while keeping our team and partners safe.

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.

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.

New Study on Mobile Health Interventions Featured in BioMed Central

York University Associate Professor Maggie MacDonald recently published a study exploring the potential of mobile health interventions to improve maternity care in remote, rural, and underserved communities in Senegal.

How to Use Mobile Tools to Improve Nutrition Around the World

Dimagi’s efforts to support nutrition programs around the world are wide-ranging, with CommCare tracking 10% of malnourished children in India and 1 in 50 malnourished children in world. Learn more about our work in fighting malnutrition worldwide.

Terre des hommes’ IeDA Program Wins Excellence Award at the Global South eHealth Observatory

On July 1st, 2019, in front of an audience of health consultants, ministry of health officials, and mHealth-focused NGOs at the fourth conference of the Global South eHealth Observatory in Lavaur, France, Terre des hommes’ Electronic Register of Consultations (REC) application earned our partners another award. The award was one of five given to the

How Dimagi is Helping to Eliminate Malaria

At Dimagi, we are proudly using our expertise and resources to work alongside many organizations in the fight against malaria, taking a number of different approaches to tackling the disease.

3 Lessons from Contact Tracing During the Ebola Outbreak

This blog post is part two of a series about how we supported the Ebola crisis with mobile applications for contact tracing. Check out this blog post to read more about the contact tracing application that was developed from our experience and collaborations in West Africa. Project Background: Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to visit

Dimagi COO Speaks at Harvard Africa Business Conference

Dimagi’s COO Carter Powers was featured on the HealthCare Delivery panel at Harvard Business School’s 16th Annual Africa Business Conference. In the panel, Carter talked about Dimagi’s approach to sustainable practices to support and empower healthcare workers in Africa. Read more about the “Empowering the Healthcare Worker” panel.

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