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FW: [globaldigitalhealthnetwork] WHO Call for research findings on digital health interventions by 15 Sept 2017 for guidelines
by Nancy Puttkammer 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

FYI for UW mHealth folks. Please consider contributing your own mHealth work. Nancy Puttkammer, MPH, PhD Research and Evaluation Advisor, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington 325 Ninth Ave, Box # 359932 Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: +1 (206) 616-5139 FAX: +1 (206) 221-4945 Skype ID: nancy.puttkammer Website: http://www.go2itech.org I-TECH envisions a world in which all people have access to high quality, compassionate, and equitable health care. -----Original Message----- From: mhealth(a)my.ibpinitiative.org [mailto:mhealth@my.ibpinitiative.org] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 6:56 AM To: Global Digital Health Network <mhealth(a)my.ibpinitiative.org> Subject: [globaldigitalhealthnetwork] WHO Call for research findings on digital health interventions by 15 Sept 2017 for guidelines Dear Colleagues, This is a global call for research finding papers on digital health interventions for submission by 15 September 2017. Please feel free to share this announcement widely. In response to a global need for evidence-based global recommendations on the use of digital health interventions available via mobile device, the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) in collaboration with other WHO departments has commenced the process of developing WHO Guidelines. As part of this process, over the coming months, a series of systematic reviews of research evidence have been commissioned on specific digital health topics noted below. We are requesting from the global community any and all relevant primary studies that should be considered for inclusion in the systematic reviews. This is your opportunity to contribute to the literature that will be included in the systematic reviews that will be informing WHO Guidelines on Digital Health Interventions. The digital intervention topics for the guideline will include: • Targeted client communication accessible via mobile devices (e.g. health promotion messaging, appointment/medication reminders) • Remote client to provider communication accessible via mobile devices • Provider to provider communication accessible via mobile devices • Electronic decision support accessible via mobile devices • Tracking client health records, digital service records (e.g. digitized versions of health service registers) accessible via mobile devices • Birth notification and registration • Notification of stock levels and monitoring of health commodities The Guidelines will systematically consolidate evidence of effectiveness related to these digital health interventions, as well as review associated feasibility, costs, and risks, in order to formulate concrete recommendations to inform evidence-based investments and prioritization. Studies can focus on issues related to effectiveness, equity, resource use acceptability, feasibility, or resource use/cost-effectiveness, and: • Can be from any setting • Can be both published or unpublished • Can include both randomised and non-randomised studies and qualitative studies, although we will have a threshold for study quality depending on the intervention. The systematic review team will review all submitted papers and determine if they fulfill the inclusion criteria. We ask that you please submit any papers you are aware of to nhenschke(a)cochrane.org by 15 September for 2017 to be considered for inclusion. Materials received after this date will not be considered for the review process leading to the Guideline. Thank you for your ongoing interest in this process, Sincerely, Dr. Garrett Mehl ___________________ Garrett Mehl, PhD, MHS Scientist, Digital Health Research Department of Reproductive Health and Research, includes HRP - the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research in Human Reproduction World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia Geneva 1211 Switzerland +41 22 791 4915 __________ _____________________________________________ http://www.globaldigitalhealthnetwork.org http://www.globaldigitalhealthforum.org You are receiving this message because you're a member of the community Global Digital Health Network. View this contribution on the web site https://knowledge-gateway.org/_/lb4hjdal A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Global Digital Health Network. To reply to sender, send a message to mehlg(a)who.int. To unsubscribe, send an email to leave.mhealth(a)my.ibpinitiative.org

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by None 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

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Re: [change] New MPPT Solar charge controllers
by Hittey 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

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FW: Help needed: Internet access in Africa
by Abraham D. Flaxman 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

I’m passing on this email from the Software Carpentry mailing list, in case anyone has good leads for building IT capacity at Gabon U. --Abie From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.software-carpentry.org] On Behalf Of Anelda van der Walt Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:57 PM To: Software Carpentry Discussion <discuss(a)lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org>> Subject: [Discuss] Help needed: Internet access in Africa Dear all, I realise we have a very diverse group of people subscribed to this list and really hope someone on the list can help with ideas or can put us in touch with someone who can help. In July 2017 colleagues from University of New Orleans will be running a 5-day bioinformatics workshop in Gabon, Central Africa. The workshop will include some modules from the Carpentry repertoire. The researchers from New Orleans have a longstanding relationship with the Gabon university and have been involved in a number of capacity building initiatives over the years. Amongst other things, participants will learn this year, to use cloud computing (thanks Jason!) for genomics data analysis... The reality is that the university does not have Internet... Although our colleagues from the US will be buying data bundles and using the local mobile network to get access to Internet for the duration of the course (with its limitations and high costs associated), we are trying to help the university to get access to Internet at a broader level. We are working with the country's Education and Research Network service provider, but costs are astronomical and as such the Science Faculty, who is keen to take a lead on this initiative, will just not be able to cover installation costs and monthly costs from an already depleted budget. So, we have a use case (bioinformatics data analysis in the cloud), we have a champion at the Gabon university (Dean of Science Faculty), we have the network provider ready with plans to install (GabonREN), we have an existing relationship between US/Gabon (so not one of those once off helicopter capacity building initiatives). What we don't have: * Skills in the IT department to install and maintain internet (The Science Dean said they will have to contract these skills in) * Funding to afford the initial installation * Funding to maintain the installation (staff/contractors) * Funding for monthly line rental Does anybody have an idea about someone we could approach for help? I look forward to seeing how our collective wisdom and networks may be able to help fellow researchers get access to the Internet. Kind regards, Anelda

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ICTD 2017 Lahore, Pakistan | Call for Notes
by Agha Ali Raza 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

ICTD 2017, Pakistan | 16-19 November 2017 <http://ictd2017.itu.edu.pk/> Call for Notes <http://ictd2017.itu.edu.pk/> The Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2017), to be hosted at the Information Technology University in Lahore (Pakistan) from November 16 to 19, 2017, cordially invites you to submit Notes. ICTD 2017 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. Important Dates July 14, 2017: Deadline for submission of Notes September 1, 2017: Notification of acceptances for Notes September 15, 2016: Camera-ready deadline for Notes All submissions are due at 11.59pm UTC. Over the past several decades, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, accessible, and relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including,but not limited to, anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Notes With a 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g., how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as poster presentations at the conference. This year we are also introducing short oral presentations (in addition to posters) for top notes based on the recommendations of reviewers. Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers. Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Notes must use the ACM templates <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> (LaTex and Word) and must be no longer than 4 pages respectively. The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits. Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. Submitted Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. All accepted Notes will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Here is the link to the notes submission site: https://ictd2017.cs.washington.edu/note/ General Conference Chair Umar Saif, Information Technology University Program Committee Chairs Richard Anderson, University of Washington Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Notes Chairs Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology Agha Ali Raza, Information Technology University Open Session Chairs Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town Mustafa Naseem, University of Colorado Boulder -- Agha Ali Raza Assistant Professor - Computer Science Department Information Technology University 6th Floor, Arfa Software Technology Park, 346-B, Ferozepur Road, Lahore Home page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza

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Global Design Challenge: help make a lifesaving device
by Trevor Perrier 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

From: Balderston, Beth <bbalderston(a)path.org> *Global Design Challenge: help make a lifesaving device* PATH and Autodesk Foundation seek designs for device that delivers lifesaving medicine to babies, children, and adults. http://blog.path.org/2017/06/path-kicks-off-global-design- challenge-with-autodesk-foundation/ PATH and the Autodesk Foundation <http://www.autodesk.org/who-we-are> are reaching out to people around the world to help design a lifesaving device: the RELI Delivery System (which stands for Reusable Electricity-free Low-cost Infusion pump). The challenge: to complete the design of this low-cost infusion pump, which will deliver medicines, fluids, and nutrition to newborns and adults in some of the world’s most remote settings. ----- Beth Balderston, MS Communications Officer Reproductive Health PATH 2201 Westlake Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98121 | TEL 206.285.3500 x4888 | www.path.org | www.rho.org

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