Jan Ostermann, associate professor of health services policy and management, is leading a new project to increase vaccination uptake among children in rural and underserved areas.
Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc.Aug 28 2023 Collaborating with Lavanya Vasudevan , Nathan Thielman , and Ester Ngadaya , Ostermann will use a $3 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to implement a community-based digital intervention in Tanzania that could be applied in settings around the world.
The study will determine whether a community-based digital health intervention can increase the timeliness of routine vaccinations, thereby reducing the time that children remain vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illness. Though this intervention could be tested in a number of underserved settings, the researchers will implement it in Tanzania, where the research team has had long-standing partnerships with health agencies and providers.
Timely technology This project builds on a prior study by the same team, which used mobile phone-based reminders and financial incentives to mothers to improve vaccination rates and timeliness for their children. That study relied on a custom-built mHealth system called mParis to send automated SMS messages to study participants.
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