Mobiles, Development & Global Health Training: A way forward
The mCHW project
Anne Geniets
University of Oxford
What was your aim and what challenge in mHealthwere you addressing? • To design, develop, implement and evaluate a mobile
learning intervention to support the professional education of CHVs and CHEWs
• By doing so:– Contribute to the evidence base on the effectiveness of
mobile-based activities to increase CHWs' capabilities through CHEW supervision/mentorship and peer learning
• To determine how mobile based supervision and training can be embedded within existing local primary health infrastructure
Referral App
• Focus: Developmental Milestones
• Leverages on Smart phone technology
• Supports referral decision making
• Update based on feedback
Participatory Action Research
CHW CHEW
What was critical to successfully addressing this challenge?
• UCL-Amref-Oxford Partnership & relationship with CHVs and CHEWs in our two communities in Kenya
• Technology & Resources
• Complex challenge – complex intervention
What three key impacts do you feel you’ve made?
• We’ve shown that with enough upfront understanding of the context and of people’s practice
• Mobile intervention is:
– Training tool
– Job aid
– Data collection tool
– Community mobilisation & advocacy
• Mobile tools– Mobile job aid & supervision: REFER App
– Mentorship & social support: Whatsapp
– App development for CHEWs: ALPHA App
• Training– Formal: MoH & CHEWs
– On-the-ground: Peer-to-peer
– Capacity building: Amref – Oxford/UCL
• Community support – For those with children with disabilities
– Exchange visits
• Four key areas of contributions of a mobile health and training intervention
– For CHVs and CHEWs
– For the community
– For mHealth programming & research
– For Health Systems Strengthening
What technologies are you using? (Olajide)
• Leverages on smartphone technology
• HTML 5, works online and offline
• http://www.mchw.org |@m_CHW