Registered Project Summaries

Below you can see some of the exciting projects involved in mHealth:

 

School of Public Health

This project offers a course exploring eHealth and mHealth in low and middle income countries.

Using real-time data collection to map psychosocial stress in relation to drug use and its impact on HIV.

To evaluate the feasibility and participant acceptability of mHealth-enchance peer navigation to improve retention in care for out-of-care, ART-eligible IDUs.

Using mHealth to intervene early and reduce the impact of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Development and evaluation of a mobile application package that can rapidly capture, analyze and record water quality parameters in remote regions.

Feasibility testing of mobile registration, vital event alerts, and event documentation in order to record mortality and cause-of-death in Nigeria with a focus on childbirth.

Using SMS reminders to improve timely vaccine coverage in rural Africa.

Tobacco marketing assessment emphasizing on regulatory compliance.

Health Call seeks to understand the impact of appointment reminders and health beliefs on patient attendance in Santiago, Chile pediatric referral hospital.

The project consists of a communication program designed to investigate the low bandwidth potential of SMS technology to facilitate communication, enable situational awareness, and rescue survivors during disasters.

Development and testing of an integrated mobile phone based data system that links rural community health workers and their clients.

A novel approach to using existing technologies and infrastructures to influence social norms and improve public health.

This projects aims to map and analyze social network structures in order to evaluate the mobile phone CUG (closed user group)

SMS Based obesity and weight control through behavior change.

A virtual, interactive, mobile-phone based “Immunization Record” to Improve vaccination rates in rural Bangladesh.

Increased tracking of malaria to help eliminate it’s occurrence in this region. For completed publication click here.

School of Medicine

Enhancing the quality of educational materials for learning pancreatic pathology and cytopathology.

Improve patient care by increasing clinical efficiency.

Develop virtual patient records with regards to localized language and semantics.

La Guia POC-IT del VIH is an evidence based clinical decision resource that has been translated into Spanish and adapted with specific information for Central America.

Utilizing eMOCHA to efficiently consolidate data collected in standard manner throughout Columbia.

eMOCHA (electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application) is an open source mHealth software platform developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education.

This project strives to reduce the disparity of care in developing countries in regards to cleft lip and palate deformities.

This project aims to develop mHealth tools to influence behavior change.

School of Nursing

Helping pregnant women and new mothers acquire information about caring for their health and giving their babies the best possible start in life.

Nursing and midwifery organizations have been building capacity to utilize virtual electronic communications systems as a mechanism to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Increasing the ability of providers to identify abused women and connecting them with resources to improve their situation.

 

Carey Business School

A mobile intervention tool designed to reduce hospital readmissions.

 

Applied Physics Laboratory

The SAGES project is intended to enhance electronic disease surveillance capacity in resource-limited settings. Find out more at: www.jhuapl.edu/sages

 

Whiting School of Engineering

Utilizing prick-free hemoglobinometers, a real-time geographical map of anemia prevalence will be generated to inform public health policy decisions.

 

Center for Communications Programs

Partnering with Text to Change, this project aims to develop a free SMS service to provides information on male circumcision.

This project aims to promote healthy behaviors among Rwandans.

Study seeking to determine venue-based HIV prevention intervention feasibility.

This project aims to provide free information and counseling services via telephone for people who want to know more about HIV/AIDS and other STD’s.

The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project works to improve access to and sharing of public Health Knowledge

The TLC program’s goal is to provide members of the minority re-entry population in Baltimore with a secure and supportive environment to facilitate transition back into society.

Empowering pregnant women and their partners to take the steps necessary for a healthy pregnancy and safe delivery through a national, multi-channeled strategic behavior change communication campaign.

Empowering women to initiate use of modern methods of family planning and encourage male support of family planning.

Raising awareness and marketing male medical circumcision to reduce HIV transmission risk in sub-Saharan Africa.

This project aims to reduce HIV by showcasing real life stories and solutions to prevention challenges.

This project aims to improve the timeliness and ease of data collection and analysis for reporting and to provide feedback to the BRIDGE II USAID/PEPFAR HIV funded prevention program to strengthen it.

Using mobile clubs, men are encouraged to learn, discuss and provide mutal support towards reaching family planning goals.

This project aims to provide callers to the  support lines with HIV and AIDS related information  through voice and SMS and to collect and analyze caller data to better understand their needs and respond to them.

A mobile phone based learning platform for family planning providers

This project aims to improve communications between hospitals and isolate villages.

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute – Chinese Academy of Sciences

Combining mHealth technologies and healthcare cloud computing to improve the efficiency of chronic disease management.

Open Source

C3 is a collection of social networks designed by medical experts to promote health knowledge and disease self-management skills for teens and young adults.