Projects
Partner:
Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC)
Country:
Bangladesh
To strengthen the maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) programme in 64 branches in 6 city corporations (covering 300,000 people), BRAC (the largest NGO in the world) has partnered with mPower and incorporated the mHealth system with their existing patient management system.
Partner:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
Country:
Bangladesh
This mCARE project aims to develop and test an integrated mobile phone-based data system that links rural community health workers (CHW) and their clients (pregnant women and newborns), in order to 1) vastly improve pregnancy and birth registration, 2) effectively
Partner:
Shiree (a joint initiative of DFID and GoB)
Country:
Bangladesh
Shiree incorporated mobile applications for data collection and visualization in their economic empowerment of the poorest (EEP) project that is implemented by 18 partner organizations all over Bangladesh. The purpose of integrating mobile applications is to strengthen the monitoring system of the...
Partner:
Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto and Amader Gram
Country:
Bangladesh
This project, awarded by “Grand Challenges Canada”, will test the effectiveness and efficacy of using mobile phone-based tools to support 30 CHWs in rural Bangladesh to identify women with breast cancer, which in turn can help create an automated system to
Partner:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH)
Country:
Bangladesh
The JiVitA project of JHU is a Maternal and Child Health research initiative targeted towards identifying effective and low-cost nutrition interventions to improve health and survival of mothers, infants and children. Currently the project requires a mobile solution that will assist the...
Partner:
Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC)
Country:
Bangladesh
BRAC, in collaboration with mPower, has set up an Emergency Management System (EMS) to act as a Help Center for pregnant women and mothers. Call center agents are available 24 hours to receive calls from households and direct their calls to relevant service centers or emergency services. This...
Partner:
Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR)
Country:
Bangladesh
The Urban Partnerships for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) project is a community based approach to poverty reduction by working with more than 600 communities in eleven Pourashavas (Municipalities) and City Corporations. The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) of the Local Government Division...
Partner:
SEWA Rural
Country:
India
mPower is working to build mHealth tools that will assist the CHWs of SEWA Rural in their maternal and child health care services as well as enable SEWA Rural to conduct community health surveillance in Jhagadia block of the State of Gujarat. The goal of the project is to establish an evidence...
Partner:
Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOH), Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Qualcomm, Mobinil, and GSMA
Country:
Egypt
mPower has partnered with government ministries and telecom companies to provide Tele-Dermatology specialist consultations to remote clinics where doctors are non-existent or very rare.
Partner:
International Breast Cancer Research Foundation (IBCRF), and Amader Gram
Country:
Bangladesh
The IBCRF, Amader Gram and mPower have jointly conducted a project to experiment the use of mobile technologies to identify potential breast cancer patients, to increase follow-up with them, and to adhere treatment to Amader Gram Breast Care clinic.
Partner:
SAJIDA Foundation
Country:
Bangladesh
mPower has partnered with Sajida (a NGO which has the largest micro health insurance program in Bangladesh) and successfully completed a mini pilot to empower Sajida’s existing healthcare delivery system with pro-active, targeted and timely health interventions, strong and automated monitoring and...
Partner:
Friendship
Country:
Bangladesh
The Chars or riverine islands of northern Bangladesh are considered one of the most inaccessible and remote areas in the country where the community people do not have any access to healthcare facilities. Friendship took the initiative to provide primary and secondary health services to these...
Partner:
Botswana Ministry of Health
Country:
Botswana
Through joint partnership with University of Pennsylvania and the Ministry of Health, a pilot project was implemented on using mobile phones for Cervical Cancer Screening, HIV Clinical Staging, Tele-pre/post oral surgery, Tuberculosis Screening, Mobile Tele-Dermatology and Mobile Tele-Radiology.
Partner:
Guatemala District Hospital
Country:
Guatemala
Through partnership with the District Hospital in Guatemala, Tele-Dermatology was introduced in Guatemala to create a more responsive system for better service delivery.
Partner:
MIT Next Billion Project
Country:
Philippines
Through partnership with the village health center of Metro Manila, a pilot was conducted to enhance their maternal health programs. Pregnant mothers were enrolled in a Pregnant Mother's Club to receive SMS updates and tips on safe pregnancy and use of the state insurance coverage. The...
Partner:
American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)
Country:
USA
Through partnership with AAD and local free clinics (for the homeless population), the Tele-Dermatology service was piloted in 27 clinics / hospitals over 10 US cities.
