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Deepika Yadav, Pushpendra Singh, Kyle Montague, Vijay Kumar, Deepak Sood, Madeline Balaam, Drishti Sharma, Mona Duggal, Tom Bartindale, Delvin Varghese, and Patrick Olivier. 2017. Sangoshthi: Empowering Community Health Workers through Peer Learning in Rural India. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '17). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 499-508. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3038912.3052624

Publication Date - Apr 7, 2017

The Healthcare system of India provides outreach services to the rural population with a key focus on the maternal and child health through its flagship program of Community Health Workers (CHWs). The program since its launch has reached a scale of over 900000 health workers across the country and observed significant benefits on the health indicators. However, traditional face to face training mechanisms face persistent challenge in providing adequate training and capacity building opportunities to CHWs which leads to their sub-optimal knowledge and skill sets. In this paper, we propose Sangoshthi, a low-cost mobile based training and learning platform that fits well into the environment of low-Internet access. Sangoshthi leverages the architecture that combines Internet and IVR technology to host real time training sessions with the CHWs having access to basic phones only. We present our findings of a four week long field deployment with 40 CHWs using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Sangoshthi offers a lively environment of peer learning that was well received by the CHW community and resulted into their knowledge gains (16%) and increased confidence levels to handle the cases. Our study highlights the potential of complementary training platforms that can empower CHWs in-situ without the need of additional infrastructure.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3052624

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/iiit-delhi/1/991017.html

https://www.facebook.com/IIITDelhi/posts/2279503818733302 (Project was awarded 100000 USD from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for project that aims to build A Mobile-Based Training Platform for ASHA workers.The project is one of the 35 winners across the world. The project, led by Dr. Pushpendra Singh and his Ph.D. student Ms. Deepika Yadav, is targeted towards educating and thus empowering a vital functionary of the National Health Mission known as ASHA (Accredit social Health Activists) - July 2018

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  • Dr. Pushpendra Singh, Associate Dean (IRD)
  • Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi
  • Mobile Number - +91 88264 58886
  • Office - 011 2690 7458
  • Email - psingh@iiitd.ac.in

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  • Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi, Dean of Academic Affairs and External Relations
  • Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi
  • Off: +91 11 26907 467, Res: +91 11 26907 625
  • EA: Ms. Nayana Samuel (nayana@iiitd.ac.in)
  • Mobile Number - +91 96707 73311
  • Email - dheeraj@iiitd.ac.in

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