Research Roundup

In this edition of our Research Roundup, we focus on the recently released Digital Healthcare Equity Framework  and its Implementation Guide, a foundational resource that helps ensure digital healthcare solutions promote and improve health equity. Our guest editors, Dr. Matt Austin and Dr. Elham Hatef, created these resources through a contract with the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Dr. Suzanne Kiwanuka, Makerere University, and Dr. Suruchi Gupta, Johns Hopkins University, delve into the role of digital systems in strengthening immunization efforts in this month's Digital Health Research Roundup.

This edition of Research Roundup takes a look at the various digital innovations helping enhance humanitarian aid efforts, examining both their promise and current limitations for long-term impact and scalability. Dr. Aral Sürmeli, co-founder of HERA Digital Health and the Medical Rescue Association of Turkey, shares his perspective as a global humanitarian expert. 

In this month's Roundup, we explore the potential of telemedicine in resource-limited settings, highlighting recent research. In conversation with Dr. Sanjay Sood and Dr. Neha Verma, we also discuss the development of India’s eSanjeevani, one of the world’s largest telemedicine programs.

This edition of the newsletter examines different opportunities that digital health tools present for climate adaptation, resilience, and equity– in collaboration with Dr. Dheeya Rizmie from Mathematica.

This Research Roundup highlights a key resource for policymakers engaging in digital transformation: ‘Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone’, recently released by the World Bank. Created with Malarvizhi Veerappan, Marelize Gorgens, and Somil Nagpal from the World Bank as our guest editors for this edition.

In this Research Roundup, Dr. Soumyadipta Acharya writes about leveraging digital tools for malaria management.

In this month’s Digital Health Research Roundup, Dr. Joowhan Sung writes about leveraging digital health interventions for tuberculosis control.

In this edition of the Research Roundup, we invited Marla Shaivitz and Dr. Radha Rajan to share their  thoughts on the role of social media as a research and communications tool in the field of social and behavior change.

This special edition of Research Roundup features the latest findings from Global Digital Health Forum 2023, shared by CGDHI student volunteers at the forum, as well as summaries of sessions led by CGDHI faculty and our affiliates. 

We invited Dr. Johannes Thrul to share his thoughts for this month’s Digital Health Research Roundup, focused on Ecological Momentary Assessments and Interventions (EMAI).

This month’s Digital Health Research Roundup is focused on exploring gender considerations in digital health.  Dr. Patricia Mechael, Dr. Anna Kalbarczyk and Deb Levine collaborated on this edition, sharing their thoughts and highlighting recent publications on the role of gender dynamics in digital health.

This month’s Research Roundup is focused on the use of predictive data analytics within global health to support health outcomes. We invited Diwakar Mohan, an expert in global health systems epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, to provide his thoughts on the topic and share current research.

We invited Veronica Lea, an expert in survey methodology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for this month’s edition, which focuses on using mobile phone surveys to collect population health data and information.

This month’s Digital Health Research Roundup is focused on the digitization of community-based health information systems, or CBIS. We invited Remy Mwamba, an expert in health information systems at UNICEF, to provide his thoughts on the topic.

This month's Roundup explores the latest research on using chatbots effectively in healthcare, featuring Rose Weeks and Smisha Agarwal as our guest editors.