News
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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.
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Introducing a new Digital Medic course to support CHWs with cancer education and prevention
Explore our new free digital course, co-created with CARE, which equips community health workers with videos, practical skills, and job aids to deliver vital cancer education, prevention, and patient support.
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Learn more about our human-centered journey to create digital health training for CHWs
In our recent webinar with Lwala Community Alliance, we shared how we used our human-centered design approach to co-create a relevant, practical and useful free digital course with CHWs for managing common childhood illnesses.
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Can text messages improve postpartum care? Promising evidence from four Indian states
Check out our joint blog post with Noora Health, highlighting findings from our recent study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
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Using WhatsApp for vaccine promotion in low-and middle-income countries: practitioner-informed perspectives
See our commentary in BMJ Global Health alongside fellow Vaccine Confidence Fund awardees.
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Talking to teens about drugs: Real-world tools for tough conversations
A free online course helps school staff use proven techniques to connect with youth about substance use.
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Digital Medic receives Stanford Impact Labs award: Strengthening Maternal and Infant Care through GenAI Mobile Messaging
Through a new award from Stanford Impact Labs, Digital Medic is partnering with Noora Health to investigate how genAI can be used in mobile health tools to enhance maternal and infant care for millions of families in South Asia.
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Digital innovation driving global vaccine uptake
See how Digital Medic and other Vaccine Confidence Fund grantees are reaching 4 million people, training 3,000 champions, reducing costs, and addressing vaccine hesitancy.
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Quarterly Update | July 2025
Learn about our collaboration with Noora Health for scaling postnatal education with AI and a new open-access course on pediatric respiratory distress.
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Working to meet the global need for mental health education
The Stanford Center for Health Education is developing content for health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and for school staff in the Bay Area.
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Learning interventions and training: providing support during health emergencies
We helped guest edit a special edition of Frontiers in Public Health that explores just-in-time, science-based training for health workers and policymakers during crises.
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Quarterly Update | April 2025
Explore our 2024 annual program summary as well as our CUGH poster presentation, new research and commentary, and plans for expanded mental health content in 2025.
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Introducing the 2024 Digital Medic Program Summary
In 2024, we delivered training resources to communities worldwide, in remote villages and urban centers, through collaboration, learning design, and a focus on local needs.
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Skoll Foundation announces winners of the 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation
The Community Health Impact Coalition, of which Digital Medic is a member, was honored for systems-level work advancing the status of community health workers globally.
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Understanding measles, a highly infectious but preventable disease
As measles cases rise, pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Charles Prober of Stanford Medicine shares information about measles symptoms, transmission, and prevention.
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A mobile messaging service for families on postnatal knowledge and practices: a cluster randomized trial, India
Digital messaging to families in the postnatal period can be effective, according to a study we undertook with researchers from Noora Health, now published in the WHO Bulletin.
