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Center for Global Digital Health Innovation

Advancing innovation in digital healthcare through collaboration, evidence, and education

Welcome to the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation

The Center for Global Digital Health Innovation (CGDHI) aims to ameliorate access to health care, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity through context-appropriate and evidenced-based digitization. 

We bring together faculty from schools across Johns Hopkins University to foster interdisciplinary collaborations that support governments, donors, and development agencies worldwide in strengthening health services through digitization.

New and Noteworthy

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CGDHI Researcher Taps Power of Online Gaming Communities

Dr. Michelle Colder Carras used the Discord platform to conduct research on a digital mental health intervention, gaining insights for global program implementation and research through online communities. 

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VectorCam Innovation for Mosquito Surveillance Lauded by Bill Gates

An AI-based mosquito surveillance tool developed by a multidisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins University bioengineers and public health professionals, including CGDHI faculty, is featured on Bill Gates’ personal blog, “GatesNotes.”

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Online Courses on Population Health Data Now Available

Three online courses developed by CGDHI faculty are now available to global learners who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in digital data collection tools, translating data into effective health policy, and using civil registration and vital statistics systems and methodologies. 

"CGDHI brings together unlike minds -- with a healthy disregard for the impossible -- to solve some of the world’s most vexing healthcare problems, especially where the need is the highest."

                                  Dr. Soumya Acharya, Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design

Our Hubs

Learn about CGDHI's primary areas of focus