Four core partners work together through K4Health to advance the field of knowledge management for family planning: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, FHI 360, Management Sciences for Health, and IntraHealth International. These partners bring a vast array of mHealth and eHealth experience to the project.
JHU•CCP is a leader in strategic communication and knowledge management. Its home within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ensures access to the latest thinking and innovations in global health. JHU•CCP’s approaches to mHealth include training and development of innovative strategies for implementing mHealth programs around the world.
FHI 360 has a wealth of technical expertise in family planning and reproductive health and excels at putting research into practice. FHI 360 is experienced in designing and deploying mHealth solutions for public health practitioners and clients alike.
IntraHealth International, a leader in workforce development, brings global leadership in health workforce development and experience collaborating with countries on developing sustainable, open source information systems for human resource development.
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) brings expertise in leadership and management to their focus on capacity building for health systems.
Four specialized partners--the mHealth Alliance, Hesperian Health Guides, HIFA 2015, and Switchboard--bring additional mHealth tools and expertise to K4Health.
The mHealth Alliance champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health throughout the world. The mHealth Alliance works with diverse partners to integrate mHealth into multiple sectors. The mHealth Alliance helps the mHealth community to overcome common challenges by providing a forum for sharing tools, knowledge, experience, and lessons learned.
Hesperian Health Guides produces and shares easy-to-understand health information for audiences worldwide in a variety of formats. They offer a vast array of tools for health promotion; a searchable collection of illustrations; eBooks; a HealthWiki site; and an app for safe pregnancy and birth. K4Health and Hesperian are working to expand family planning content on a number of platforms and are forging linkages to facilitate increased sharing of resources.
HIFA 2015 meets the needs of health providers in resource-poor settings and beyond through knowledge networks with more than 7,000 members worldwide from 171 countries. Members interact on five HIFA Global Forums: HIFA 2015, CHILD2015, HIFA-Portuguese, HIFA-EVIPNet-French, and HIFA-Zambia. Together they are building HIFA Voices, an experiential database on information needs and how to meet them.
Switchboard has expertise in the creation of local mobile user networks that provide users with connections to colleagues and to tailored, mobile-friendly content.