Digital Health: Supporting the Decentralization of Health Care to Increase Access to Quality Care Globally

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs progarm on Global Health Challenges presents Meg McLaughin and “Digital Health: Supporting the Decentralization of Health Care to Increase Access to Quality Care Globally.”

Meg McLaughlin is a global health practitioner with over 10 years of community-based research and project implementation in the field, specifically focused on human rights, humanitarian response, and access to healthcare for women and children. She’s worked on internationally-focused projects, as well as field projects in East and West Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the Caribbean. She works at ThinkMD and serves as Adjunct Professor at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA).

This presentation will focus on the role of mobile health technologies and specifically, clinical decision support tools, and their ability to create opportunities for accessing quality health care by generating clinical capability in every role. Through the use of such tools, health workers and community members alike become a point of care, capable of accurately assessing an individual for clinical risk and providing appropriate triage treatment and referral recommendations. Attendees will learn more about the role of mobile health to improve health outcomes and the ethical use of community level data captured through the use of such tools to better understand community and population health, globally.

Ms. McLaughlin earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Florida and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Florida. In 2018, she received an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from IIHA.

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