Bits: mHealth Alliance To Promote Use of Mobile Tech in Health Programs

By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor

February 26, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Rockefeller, United Nations, and Vodafone Foundations have announced the formation of the mHealth Alliance to promote the use of mobile technologies in health programs in developing countries. A new report, “mHealth for Development,” details 26 such efforts, including a program in Thailand in which tuberculosis patients receive calls reminding them to take their medication. For more information: Go to http://www.mhealthalliance.org and http://www.unfoundation.org/mhealth-report.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is accepting grant proposals for the second round of its nearly $8.3-million Health Games Research program. In 2009, the foundation will award a total of $2-million to researchers working to improve the quality and health benefits of interactive health video games. The deadline for submissions is April 8. For more information: Go to http://www.healthgamesresearch.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.