Dr Arek Dakessian Dr Karin Diaconu and Dr Alison Strang
Web-based applications to support health care delivery and secure wellbeing
The team from IGHD were granted a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø Innovation Fellowship to support the set-up of a new social enterprise able to offer access to web-applications and associated IGHD research expertise on a not-for-profit basis.
IGHD has invested in the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment of three novel application to support health service, population health and refugee integration research. These applications distinguish themselves from other survey tools and web-applications through their focus on settings experiencing inaccessibility and crises. The applications have already been deployed during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Liberia, Sri Lanka, El-Salvador and the UK, to study community connectedness, wellbeing and coping, and challenges in the delivery of vital health care services.
The new social enterprise will revolve around a web-portal, which hosts the web-applications and makes these and their functionality available to other organizations engaged in health-related research globally. On a case-by-case basis, it is anticipated that the portal will also enable access to IGHD research expertise for consultancy purposes.
