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Mobilizing Innovation for Global HealthJody Ranck, DrPH

Director of Thought Leadership, Policy and Advocacy

Developing70%

Developed30%

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The mHealth Alliance seeks to leverage the global reach of wireless networks and mobile devices to improve health

outcomes in underserved communities through co-development and deployment of innovative, interoperable

mobile health (mHealth) solutions.

• Thought Leadership• Value Chain Analysis• Research, Monitor & Eval. • Communications

Information

• Co-Development• Co-DeploymentImplementation

mHealth Alliance: Catalyzing Innovation for Global Health

Launched in 2009 and supported by a partnership of the United Nations

Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, the

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the GSM

Association

70% of mobile phones are in emerging economies –

and that continues to climb fast - ITU 2010

Credit: DataDyne.org

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Mobility

HealthInternational Development

Groups

Continua Health Alliance

Open Mobile Consortium

MobileActive

GSMA/CTIA

Vodafone, Airtel MTN, others

J&J, Pfizer, Kaiser Permanente, others

PrivatemHealthAlliance

Apollo Hospitals, Discovery, others

Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson,

Qualcomm, others

National Health Departments

World Health Organization

ITU

OpenMRS

Health IT Companies

Where We Fit

Public

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MHA principles

• Open standards• Open architectures• Interoperable• Agnostic on open source/proprietary • Eco-system of partners– public and private• Access to care, low-resource contexts

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Problems we’re solving for

• Evidence Base• Enabling Environments• Fragmentation• Stakeholders along the continuum of care• Business Model development---integration

with other verticals, eg. mFinance• Connecting unmet needs with developers of

solutions---user-led design

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Eco-systems for Sustainable Biz Models

• Network Facilitation Model- Christensen• Telcoms• Ministries of Health, Private Sector Health• Employers• Insurance, micro-insurance

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Entry Point

• Maternal-Newborn Mobile Initiative• Continuum of Care• Value Chain Analysis• National Stakeholder Groups• Who is doing what, where?• Communities of Practice, Evidence base

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MMI- Continuum of Care & Support

Education & Awareness

Diagnostic & Treatment

Support

Administration & Training

Supply Chain Management

Monitoring & Evaluation

Finance & Payments

Provider Continuum of Support

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Health System Transformation

• Diagonally Driven Innovation• Beyond another vertical• Design for scale from the beginning• Big picture with an eye for long-term

processes

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Enabling Environments

• mHealth Policies: privacy, security, data policies

• Intersections with Verticals, eg. mFinance• Capacity Building• Evaluation Indicators/standards and evidence

base commons

www.healthunbound.org

• HUB is a dynamic online meeting place and connector for those who care about using modern information and communications tools and systems to improve the health of people in low and middle income countries. • HUB aggregates and amplifies existing content, and enables new cross-cutting communities of practice through discussion boards, work spaces, interactive registries of projects and technology, and messaging

• HUB facilitates idea exchange and spurs dialogue between the diverse constituencies that need to connect: health practitioners, implementers of health information initiatives, government leaders, NGOs, donors, international organizations, the private sector, and the people they serve.

• HUB is a tool for the global community, a project of the mHealth Alliance, the Health Metrics Network and a growing list of partners and participants.

HUB: HealthUnBound