Hi everybody, Please see below for two online discussions related to mHealth. The first will be an ongoing email list which could be a good venue to get feedback on mHealth related studies produced by the ICTD community from practitioners and health experts. The second is a focused discussion happening next week! take care, neal ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Raney <lraney@fhi360.org> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:33 PM Subject: [mhealth] mHealth Alliance Announces Two Opportunities to Join the Discussion on mHealth To: mHealth Working Group <mhealth@my.ibpinitiative.org> *The mHealth Alliance offers two opportunities to join the discussion on mHealth:* * * (1) Sign up for the new mHealth Evidence Community of Practice beginning March 25**** (2) Participate in the online discussion forum scale-up and sustainability of mHealth projects March 18-22 **** ** ** *(1) Sign up for the new mHealth Evidence Community of Practice beginning March 25* The new mHealth Evidence Community of Practice (CoP) is being launched by the mHealth Alliance and the mHealth Evidence Working Group. This mHealth Evidence CoP will cover a wide range of evaluation issues, including reviews of existing evidence, designing and implementing studies, and identifying barriers to mHealth evaluation and will feature regular updates by leading practitioners. **** ** ** The CoP will begin discussion on March 25 with William Philbrick drawing on his recent report on the current state of evidence with mHealth and MNCH<http://www.mhealthalliance.org/images/content/un_007_evidencegapreport_digital_aaa.pdf>. The following week, beginning April 1, Shariq Khoja will lead a discussion on his Baseline Evaluation survey for mHealth. Future discussions will be led by James BonTempo on the upcoming mHealth Evidence Database<http://www.mhealthevidence.org/>and Hamish Fraser on the lessons for mHealth from the broader eHealth community.**** ** ** To sign up for the new mHealth Evidence CoP you need to: ** ** 1) Become a member HealthUnbound <http://www.healthunbound.org/>, the mHealth Alliance's knowledge sharing platform; then**** 2) Choose Connect, and go to Communities of Practice. **** ** ** For questions about the discussions, please email Neal Lesh at nlesh@dimagi.com or Hamish Fraser at Hamish_fraser@hms.harvard.edu.**** **** *(2) Participate in the online discussion forum on sustainability and scale-up March 18-22 * Prior to the launch of the mHealth Evidence COP, the mHealth Working Group<http://www.mhealthworkinggroup.org/>and the mHealth Alliance <http://www.mhealthalliance.org/> are co-hosting an online discussion forum March 18-22, 2013 on scale-up and sustainability of mHealth projects. This online discussion forum aims to gather input from the global community about their opinions on and experience with scale-up and sustainability. The discussion follows the recent Skoll World Forum debate series on Moving beyond Pilotitis<http://skollworldforum.org/debate-post/mhealth-moving-beyond-pilots-to-scale-and-impact/> .**** ** ** Look for posts by Shariq Khoja and Jon Payne, mHealth Alliance; Alain Labrique, Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative; Steve Ollis, D-Tree; Kelly Keisling, NetHope; Pamela Riley, Abt Associates; Jon Jackson, Dimagi; Brendan Smith, Vital Wave; Merrick Schaefer, World Bank; Kirsten Gagnaire and Brooke Cutler, MAMA; Garrett Mehl, WHO; and Lavanya Vasudevan , Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.**** **** To participate in the forum from March 18-22, 2013:**** 1) If you are already a member of the mHealth Working Group, simply reply directly to any forum-related emails;**** 2) Not a member? 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