Stanford Center for Health Education | Digital Medic
Expanding knowledge, improving health.
We envision a world where all communities have access to engaging, evidence-based, and actionable health information.
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What We Do
Health Education Design
We work with governments, community-based groups, and other health stakeholders to create health worker training and community education. All resources are open-access, free for anyone to use on any device.
Research and Evaluation
We rigorously investigate the factors that make health education effective and scalable. Together with our partners, we are building the evidence base for creating impactful, equitable digital health education and training.
Our Impact
190
countries with active learners
Health education is essential to health equity.
We are committed to tackling the major drivers of death and disease through scalable health worker training and community education.
Health Worker Training
The World Health Organization predicts a shortage of 10 million health workers by 2030, primarily in low- and middle-income communities. Continuous training and upskilling for care providers are essential to closing this gap, and exclusive in-person training is no longer enough.
Explore Cancer Education and Support
Community Health Education
Access to evidence-based information in a language you understand and with information you can act on is a foundational building block of health—and it is currently not the reality for millions of people worldwide.
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Recent Updates
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Marking 100 years: New commentary charts a path for academic medical centers at the AI crossroads
As Academic Medicine marks its 100th anniversary, Digital Medic executive director Dr. Charles Prober joins Stanford colleagues Dr. Nigam Shah and Dr. Ann Arvin in a new commentary on how academic medical centers should navigate artificial intelligence and digital health platforms without losing sight of the human relationships at the center of care.
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New book chapter: Digital Health Strategies for Women and Children
Medical Director Dr. Victoria Ward and faculty affiliate Dr. Gary Darmstadt authored Chapter 4 of the new Springer volume Health in the Era of Digitalization, now available online. Their chapter, "Digital Health Strategies for Women and Children," examines mHealth and generative artificial intelligence approaches to reducing maternal mortality and improving care for women and children in low- and middle-income countries.
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Digital Medic and VillageReach partner to co-create community-designed HPV education cards
Learn more about how Digital Medic partnered with VillageReach to create HPV vaccination education cards through peer-to-peer learning and human-centered design to help health workers, teachers, and community leaders in Nigeria and Mozambique address local myths and hold open conversations with girls and caregivers about HPV vaccination.
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New commentary in Academic Medicine: A global ecosystem for health professions education
Check out the new commentary by our founding executive director, Dr. Charles Prober, along with Dr. David Atchoarena (WHO) and Dr. Tao Le (ScholarRx), who propose a global initiative to co-create and share multilingual, competency-aligned training resources using open educational resources and generative artificial intelligence to address the projected shortage of more than 11 million health workers by 2030.
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New commentary: Building community health worker systems ready for artificial intelligence
Digital Medic joined fellow Community Health Impact Coalition members in co-authoring a new commentary in The Lancet Primary Care on building community health worker systems ready for artificial intelligence. Drawing on a survey of 28 NGOs across 18 countries, the authors argue AI must be governed as public infrastructure to strengthen, not fragment, community health care.
