Introducing Health
Mission
Help countries achieve Health SDGs by building digital public goods that strengthen public health.
What are public health campaigns?
Health risks such as infectious diseases generally cannot be addressed at the individual and health worker levels alone. They require intervention at the policy level. This is where public health campaigns come into the picture.
Public health campaigns are specific, time-bound health services that respond to particular challenges and are provided to a target population by dedicated campaign workers. Such campaigns can influence perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors to achieve the desired goal. They can prevent or respond to disease outbreaks, control or eliminate targeted diseases, or achieve other health objectives. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), two strains of wild poliovirus have “officially been certified as globally eradicated,” and immunisation campaigns have played a key role in this. Over the years campaigns to fight malaria, AIDS and other diseases have not only improved the lives of millions of people in poor and developing countries and disadvantaged communities, but it has also enabled them to lead more productive lives.
In 2019, 534 campaigns were tracked globally, providing vaccines, drugs, vitamins, and preventative tools for malaria, malnutrition, measles, meningitis, NTDs, polio, tetanus, typhoid, and yellow fever. However, by the end of 2020, an estimated 50% of the public health campaigns were postponed, suspended, or canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This left millions of people and children at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and malnutrition.
How can HCM help?
As health campaigns catch up on missed vaccinations, drugs, and other preventative measures globally, there is an opportunity to reimagine the way countries can plan and implement campaigns through open-source digital platforms.
Today, digital tools are either free but not fit for purpose, or they do the job but cost a fortune due to repetitive work adding to the costs. Data is locked in silos and there is no operability between systems. These tools are also difficult to sustain and scale. These realities made it clear that isolated approaches cannot do the job.
Health campaigns require a holistic digital transformation. Health Campaign Management, or HCM, was developed to address these challenges effectively.
HCM is a free, fit-for-purpose, open-source, end-to-end health campaign digitisation product. It covers campaign setup, planning, registration, service delivery, inventory management, and real-time data dashboards, enabling faster and cost-effective health campaigns. HCM is designed to evolve rapidly and adapt to local needs while addressing systemic challenges.
With HCM, all programmes — whether for polio, malaria, or measles — are unified under a single, streamlined interface. This ensures data flows seamlessly across different modules, improving data quality and accessibility.
The shared data repository within HCM guarantees a “single source of truth,” maintaining high data quality. It offers easy integrations and seamlessly operates with open-source products, providing a unified system for health campaign management.
HCM is designed with highly configurable, reusable modular building blocks, enabling rapid reconfiguration of the same product for different health campaigns. These modules can also be repurposed to develop new solutions for routine health, primary healthcare, and other areas.
More than just a product, HCM is a comprehensive solution designed to streamline health campaigns, enhance coordination, and improve outcomes at every level of the health campaign management system.
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