Center for Global Digital Health Innovation
Advancing innovation in digital healthcare through collaboration, evidence, and education
The Center for Global Digital Health Innovation (CGDHI) aims to ameliorate access to health care, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity through context-appropriate and evidenced-based digitization.
We bring together faculty from schools across Johns Hopkins University to foster interdisciplinary collaborations that support governments, donors, and development agencies worldwide in strengthening health services through digitization.
New and Noteworthy
New Project: Optimizing CRVS Systems and Data with AI
The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative has provided funding for a collaborative project co-led by the CGDHI and the Vital Strategies Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and Data Impact teams, to explore optimizing CRVS systems and data with AI.
New Launch: The Digital Health Evidence Gap Map
Where do digital health interventions deliver the greatest value? The Digital Health Evidence Gap Map–an interactive tool– helps policymakers, practitioners, and innovators see what works, where evidence is strong, and where gaps remain—based on a review of 12,000+ reviews and 4,500+ studies as part of the Landscaping Analysis project.
New digital health course launched on Coursera
CGDHI just launched a new course, Digitizing Population Health in Low-Resource Settings, on Coursera. If you’re interested in learning more about digital health within a global context, take this course now using the link below!
Evaluation of e-IMNCI (IeDA) in India
New Project Announcement: We’re partnering with Terre des hommes foundation, IIHMR-Jaipur, and government stakeholders in #Jharkhand, India, to evaluate and scale e-IMNCI (IeDA) — a digital decision support tool that helps providers deliver higher-quality care for children under five.
"CGDHI brings together unlike minds -- with a healthy disregard for the impossible -- to solve some of the world’s most vexing healthcare problems, especially where the need is the highest."
Dr. Soumya Acharya, Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design