Building Capacity for Emergency Care in Uganda
June 8, 2021
Dr. Annet Alenyo Ngabirano explains how her team has approached emergency health worker training during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Expanding Knowledge. Improving Health.
AN INITIATIVE FROM THE
Access to health education is a human right.
Every year, 5 million children die globally before reaching their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable illness. Lack of access to health education leaves medically underserved communities across the globe without the proper knowledge to improve health outcomes. At the Stanford Center for Health Education, we believe that expanding access to engaging education has the power to change behaviors, improve health, and ultimately save lives. Through the Digital Medic initiative, we are committed to reaching communities worldwide with accurate, timely, and understandable health information.
Read moreSince 2016, Digital Medic has been working with low- and middle-income communities to create easily adaptable, video-based health education content to support health programs and initiatives. We work to build capacity for the global health workforce, sustain knowledge gains, increase health-promoting behaviors, and improve health outcomes.
What We Do
Education Design
We help identify high-need health topics and employ human-centered design principles to create relevant, actionable, and enjoyable learning experiences.
Global Collaboration
We partner with nongovernmental organizations, governmental bodies, researchers, technology and distribution groups, and others to produce, share, and evaluate our content.
Impact Evaluation
We measure the impact of our initiatives and continuously iterate based on our findings. We are a collaborative learning lab and share research to promote global advances in digital health education.
Where We Work
140
Countries
34
Collaborators
564
Visual Assets
15000000
Estimated population reach
Sample Content
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Coping With Stress & Caring for Mental Health During COVID-19
Conducting a Virtual Telehealth Visit for COVID-19
The Road to Health: Kangaroo Mother Care for Small Babies
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Updates
Educating children about vaccination through storytelling
April 19, 2021
This children's book explains the importance of vaccination and herd immunity through the experiences of Lily, a young llama who goes to the doctor for her yearly checkup.
read moreThe Role of NGOs in COVID-19 Community-Based Education
March 29, 2021
Community-based education bridges the gap between institutional guidelines and local realities. We surveyed NGO leaders to learn about their experiences spreading critical health messages during COVID-19.
read moreHow does entertainment education fit into breastfeeding conversations?
February 1, 2021
We were thrilled when Peer Counsellors from SW Substructure and lecturers from Stellenbosch University began using our 100% Breastfed content with patients. After three months of piloting the content, we conducted informal focus group discussions to understand their experience and whether the content was well-adopted and integrated into their workload.
read moreOur Collaborators
We are really thankful for your partnership and openness, openness in terms of content to ensure there is alignment...the open relationship to be able to say ‘this needs tweaked here’. It’s really co-creation.
Hilary Goeiman
Western Cape Department of Health - South Africa