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Making Content Meaningful: A Guide to Adapting Existing Global Health Content for Different Audiences - The abundance of openly accessible health content—from eLearning courses and multimedia resources to guidance documents and research papers—presents a remarkable opportunity for teaching, learning, and sharing. Open health content, however, is not sufficient by itself. It is important to provide it in the appropriate context and the language of the people who will use it. The Knowledge for Health MORE

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Global mHealth Initiative (GmI) Newsfeed - mHealth news from various sources, compiled by JHU's Global mHealth Initiative. MORE

Global Digital Health Network Listserv (formerly the mHealth Working Group) - Vision: The Global Digital Health Network envisions a world where technical innovation supports improved health and contributes to better quality, accessibility and sustainability of health services and health outcomes, particularly for underserved populations in low resource environments. Mission: The Global Digital Health Network, formerly the mHealth Working Group created in 2009 MORE

Sizing the Business Potential of mHealth in the Global South: A Practical Approach - mHealth Alliance Publication. This report provides professionals from across sectors and industries with methodologies for sizing the market opportunity for mHealth solutions in the Global South. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance and Vital Wave Consulting, 2009. MORE

Global Health Media Project - Short, engaging videos to help health workers gain the knowledge and basic skills known to save lives. The videos are distributed free-of-charge to frontline health workers and their communities. Videos can be used online or offline on a range of devices. MORE

K4Health's mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health, USAID Global Health eLearning Course - This course is a self-paced three-hour eLearning course that provides an introduction to the emerging field of mHealth and an overview of best practices for mHealth solution development. The focus of the course is on mHealth applications commonly used in low- and middle-income country contexts. The course covers the definition of mHealth, its potential uses, benefits and limitations as well MORE

USAID's Digital Development Newsletter - Sign up for the newsletter published by the U.S. Global Development Lab’s Digital Development team. MORE

mHealth: New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technologies - mHealth Alliance Publication. Based on the findings of the second global survey on eHealth, World Health Organization (WHO). - Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, June 2011 MORE

Maternal Health Task Force - The Maternal Health Task Force identifies and creates opportunities for the global maternal health community to develop consensus on critical needs, priorities, and actions, including (but not limited to) the application of mHealth in maternal health.  MORE

Magpi (formerly EpiSurveyor) - A free mobile phone and Web-based data collection system for international development and global health. Users can design forms, download them to phones and start collecting data in minutes. MORE

Framework for Engagement: Leverging Mobile Technologies for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The global community has identified improving maternal, newborn and child health (“mnCh”) as a strategic development priority, embedding the goal within millennium Development goals 4 (reducing child mortality) and 5 (improving mothers’ health). while there has been global progress toward achieving these goals by the target date of 2015, there are still significant MORE

Digital Health Atlas - Digital Health Atlas aims to strengthen the value and impact of digital health investments, improve coordination, and facilitate institutionalization and scale.Digital Health Atlas offers technologists, implementers, financial investors, and governments a platform of tools and guidance to improve the use of digital innovations for health. Leverages the WHO mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale MORE

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ICT Playbook - The Sustainable Development Goals ICT Playbook recommends where investments in information and communications technology (ICT) should be made in order to support achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  MORE

Baseline Evaluation of the mHealth Ecosystem and the Performance of the mHealth Alliance - mHealth Alliance Publication. The main objective of the baseline evaluation was to provide information about the current level of adoption, actual implementation, funding, and impact of mHealth in LMICs. The evaluation also measured the impact of the mHealth Alliance on promoting mHealth in the global health ecosystem. February 2013 MORE

Using Mobile Technology for Healthier Aging - mHealth Alliance Publication. Globally, there is a demographic transition underway. People are living longer. Even though “old” is defined differently across the world, there will be more people ov er the age of 65 than children under five by 2015.1 By 2050, there will be an estimated 1.5 billion people age 65 or older. December 2012 MORE

Barriers and Gaps Affecting mHealth in Low and Middle Income Countries - mHealth Alliance Publication. A policy white paper researched and written by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and commissioned by the mHealth Alliance. - New York, NY: Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, May 2010.   MORE

eMOCHA (electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application) - A free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA is designed to assist health programs in developing countries improve provider communication and education, as well as patient care, by coordinating wireless devices with local server-based clinical training and patient care support services. MORE

Leveraging Mobile Technologies to Promote Maternal & Newborn Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The Current Landscape and opportunities for  advancement in low-resource settings.  The objective of this report is twofold: (1) to describe the current state of mhealth intervention design, implementation, and evaluation that can be leveraged to improve maternal and newborn health globally and  (2) to identify ways to strategically advance mhealth in MORE

mHealth Education - mHealth Alliance Publication. Harnessing the Mobile Revolution to Bridge the Health Education & Training Gap in Developing Countries.  The iheed Institute and Dalberg Global Development Advisors have prepared this report to set the stage for mHealthEd 2011 at GSMA mHealth Alliance Mobile Health Summit, which is the first dedicated conference on the emerging phenomenon of mobile MORE

Mobile for Development Impact - Mobile for Development Impact site offers data, analysis, and insights on mobile in emerging markets, to inform investment and design decisions and to support digital inclusion. Information includes:·An overview of which network operators are active in a country, and network coverage (2G, 3G or 4G) where available ·Details of Mobile for Development products and services within each country MORE

TechChange Course: Mapping for Social Good - In this four-week online course, users will learn from leading experts how to leverage open data in OpenStreetMap, make beautiful maps in MapBox, map a crisis in Ushahidi, and manage projects with Palantir and Tomnod. Course DescriptionHow can you better visualize the geographic impact of your organization, projects, and global development programs? The use of digital mapping tools MORE

Beginning with the end in mind: Planning pilot projects and other programmatic research for successful scaling up - This short ExpandNet/WHO guidance document, which is a working draft, provides 12 recommendations and a checklist to help build scaling up considerations into projects from the outset. In this way one can anticipate and plan ahead for eventual scale up from the earliest stages of designing a pilot, demonstration or other operations research intervention. Why it helps with planning:  MORE

NetHope Academy - NetHope Academy provides technology training and resources to international development organizations. The academy's goal is to help improve staff capacity and productivity by strengthening crucial information and communication technology skills. Specifically, the NetHope Academy:Helps ICT Professionals explore career paths, assess IT skills, and develop learning plans to tailor their skills to MORE

mHealth Evidence - mHealthEvidence.org is designed to bring together the world’s literature on mHealth effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and program efficiency. The database serves as the leading resource for cataloging and categorizing mHealth evidence. The site contains both peer-reviewed and grey literature on mHealth activities that are either proactively identified or included in the database based on MORE