Blog Posts

Discover the impact of a Design-Based Research approach in transforming Community Health Workers into active advocates within their communities.

We created over 120 evidence-based videos on the most searched health conditions in English and Spanish, including topics in cancer, HIV, addiction, mental health, and more.

Explore the collaborative design process behind our digital community health worker training on childhood illnesses.

"Caring for Sick Children in the Community" offers refresher training on fever, HIV, TB, malnutrition, and other common drivers of preventable child mortality.

How can we support community health workers in continuing their learning outside of in-person training sessions?

"Interventions, regardless of how well-intentioned they are, will fail if they fail to recognise context."

The Digital Medic team hits the road, attending CUGH 2023 in Washington, D.C., the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, and IMNHC in Cape Town.

Learn how we worked with Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance & the University of California San Francisco to create COVID-19 educational videos and change vaccine perceptions.

Dr. Charles Prober reflects on our 2022 accomplishments and plans to extend accessible education and training on global health issues in 2023.

Discover the Digital Health Applied Leadership Program at the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative for governmental stakeholders in several African countries.

Digital Medic team members Kira-Leigh Kuhnert and Monika Deschodt share insights from their visits with Philani and One to One Africa in the rural Eastern Cape.

Stanford University students Lucy Nemerov and Nadia Hemmat reflect on their summer working alongside the Digital Medic team in South Africa as design interns.

“There is stigma to be undermined in the township as if we don’t know what we are talking about. Amavidiyo … anike umsebenzi wethu isidima: The videos gave weight to our work.”

Introducing a digital course to equip CHWs with the knowledge and communication strategies to increase vaccine uptake worldwide.

Introducing a free Facilitator Guide to support in-person and hybrid group learning for our Advocacy Training for Community Health Workers.

Explore findings from our randomized controlled trial with Philani with over 1,500 new mothers in the Western Cape of South Africa.

A free digital course on advocacy, storytelling, and technology — core attributes meant to propel CHWs to take charge of their work and wellbeing.

"Traditionally, training in Uganda has always been face-to-face. We were trying to think of a digital or hybrid approach that was relevant, cost-effective, and interactive."

Lily the Llama Helps Her Herd, written by Stanford student Emma Rashes, is a digital public good and available to download in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.