MundoComm: ICT for Maternal Health in Costa Rica and Latin America

MundoComm：哥斯达黎加和拉丁美洲的孕产妇保健信息通信技术

• 批准号: 8849633
• 负责人: TIMOTHY De Ver DYE
• 金额: $ 11万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-18 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8849633
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the MundoComm initiative is to develop an innovative training program that enhances the ability of community-based teams in Latin America to use ICT for maternal health improvement. Evidence demonstrates the feasibility and potential of ICT to impact maternal health, which continues to be an intransigent problem for much of the world, including Latin America. Costa Rica is a regional hub for technology and health in Latin America and serves as the base for this initiative. This project directly emerges from a previously NIH Fogarty- funded ITMI project (InfoComm) that focused on building a generation of informatics-trained public health physicians in Costa Rica and two subsequent NIH-funded trials (one through Fogarty) in the Dominican Republic. This project links the two former Fogarty PIs at the University of Rochester Medical Center with their Fogarty trainees and other faculty from three medical schools (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and US), one technology school (Costa Rica), and community organizations to foster cross-collaboration, technological innovation and expanded use of ICT to improve maternal health in the region. Specific aims include: 1) Developing a mentored training program for applied research teams from throughout Latin America to learn about ICT applications in maternal health; 2) Testing specific team ICT innovations in field settings to demonstrate feasibility and appropriateness for local context; 3) Creating a Collaboratory where stakeholders share developing material, comment on plans, and provide support for trainees in the innovation process; and 4) Stimulating development of a professional network of ICT, medical, public health professionals with students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners devoted to supporting ICT for Maternal Health in Latin America. MundoComm will train multidisciplinary teams of public health and community professionals in a mentored environment with core and technical faculty, through a combination of didactic, experiential, and distance-based methods. The mode of instruction is engaging, experiential, and team-oriented, leveraging communications modalities (e.g. social networking, crowd-sourcing) to create visibility and feedback mechanisms for community-led ICT prototypes feasibility testing. A summative-formative evaluation process coincides with the project to help describe and evaluate the training model and the ICT innovations that result from the trainees' efforts. By training multidisciplinary teams and promoting tools of collaboration, partnership, and engagement, the project hopes to sustain effort toward using ICT for public health improvement.

 描述（由申请人提供）： Mundocomm倡议的目标是制定一项创新的培训计划，以增强拉丁美洲基于社区的团队使用ICT来改善孕妇健康的能力。证据表明，ICT会影响孕产妇健康的可行性和潜力，这对于包括拉丁美洲在内的大部分地区，这仍然是一个不合时宜的问题。哥斯达黎加是拉丁美洲技术和健康的区域枢纽，是该计划的基础。该项目直接来自先前由NIH Fogarty资助的ITMI项目（InfoComm）出现，该项目的重点是在哥斯达黎加建立一代人受过培训的公共卫生医生，并在多米尼加共和国进行了两项随后的NIH资助试验（一项通过Fogarty）。该项目将罗切斯特医学中心大学的两位前Fogarty PI与他们的Fogarty培训和来自三所医学院（哥斯达黎加，多米尼加共和国和美国）的其他教职员工，一所技术学校（Costa Rica）以及社区组织以及促进交叉合作，技术创新并扩大ICT的该社区组织，以改善该地区的孕妇健康。具体目的包括：1）从拉丁美洲开发一个针对应用研究团队的指导培训计划，以了解孕产妇健康方面的ICT应用； 2）在现场设置中测试特定的团队ICT创新，以证明对当地环境的可行性和适当性； 3）创建一个合作者，利益相关者共享开发材料，对计划发表评论并在创新过程中为受训者提供支持； 4）刺激与学生，教职员工，研究人员和从业人员建立ICT，医疗，公共卫生专业人员的专业网络，致力于支持拉丁美洲的孕产妇健康。 Mundocomm将通过教学，实验和远距离的方法结合使用核心和技术教师来培训公共卫生和社区专业人士的多学科团队。教学模式是引人入胜，实验性和面向团队的，利用沟通方式（例如社交网络，众包），以创建可见性和反馈机制，以实现社区主导的ICT原型可行性测试。总结性的评估过程与该项目一致，以帮助描述和评估受训者努力所产生的培训模型以及ICT创新。通过培训跨学科团队并促进合作，合作伙伴关系和参与工具，该项目希望维持使用ICT进行公共卫生改善的努力。