The New York Times profiles Mwana and mHealth
Tina Rosenberg of the The New York Times today wrote a piece on mHealth: The Benefits of Mobile Health, On Hold. The piece describes the ubiquity of the mobile phone, […]
Category Archives: mHealth
UNICEF Innovation Unit Predictions for 2013
Part of our work in UNICEF’s Innovation Unit is looking 3-5 years into the future and getting a sense of trends that will be important for the organization in new […]
Skoll World Forum Op-ed – mHealth: Moving Beyond Pilots to Scale and Impact
I was recently asked to contribute to the Skoll World Forum ‘Up for Debate’ series on ‘How Do We Cure mHealth Pilotitis’. The article looks at what makes mobiles so […]
Design to Eliminate Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
by John Ryan (UNICEF Fellow) and Erica Kochi Today at the mHealth Summit, UNICEF, frog and partners (Johnson & Johnson, Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundations and the mHealth Alliance) launched the report on mHealth strategies […]
WSJ covers UNICEF’s innovative partnership with frog and General Electric
The Wall Street Journal today published a story about how design firms such as UNICEF partner frog are moving beyond traditional product design and more frequently working in the social […]
Nigeria – Using RapidSMS for Birth Registration
Since January 2011 the National Population Commission of Nigeria has been implementing decentralized monitoring using the mobile-phone based platform RapidSMS. The system was designed to identify in real-time, centre-by-centre birth […]
1000 Days: A mHealth Product Overview
Leveraging RapidSMS to Support Health, Nutrition and the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Last Mile Product Overview With the launch of the global Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) initiative, […]
UNICEF profiles Mwana Partnership
Partnerships are critical to deliver results for children. Since it’s inception, UNICEF has worked with a broad range of partners at global, regional, and national levels. Mwana was chosen as […]
Request for Expression of Interest: Mobile Service Provider Liaisons (gateway providers, aggregators, WASPs etc.)
Note: Closes 15 September, 2012 Do you know or work for a company that provides mobile service liaison? If so, please consider submitting a response – we are looking for […]
TIME Magazine Covers UNICEF supported mTrac system in Uganda
In TIME Magazine latest issues covers one of UNICEF’s mHealth systems in Uganda . M-Trac is a SMS-based disease surveillance and medicine tracking system. It provides real-time data for response while monitoring […]
