AI technologies are increasingly deployed to support community health workers (CHWs) in high-stakes healthcare settings, from malnutrition diagnosis to diabetic retinopathy. Yet, little is known about how such technologies are understood by CHWs with low ...

AI-driven tools are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities in the Global South. This paper examines how CHWs in rural India engage with and perceive AI explanations and how we might ...

Frontline health workers provide essential services for their communities, but much of their work remains invisible—undervalued and underappreciated. Examining this invisible work ensures new technologies do not amplify or reinforce inequitable power ...

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are the essential link to healthy communities for Indian households. We present insights and findings of two focus group studies conducted with 16 ASHAs and 8 ASHA trainers across two health centers in Assam, ...

This commentary1 outlines the rationale for building community health innovation networks in settings of poverty and high burdens of disease. These networks integrate deep research expertise and sustained implementation infrastructure, with the aim of ...

There is already strong evidence that mobile videos are a good vehicle for public health information dissemination, but there remain open questions around sustainability, appropriate target users, consumption patterns, content, and usage models. We ...

We present the results of deploying a feedback mechanism in a community health education project, which enables rural-based nurses to elicit feedback from rural villages in order to improve their efforts in health education and service delivery in these ...

This note explores methods of analyzing questions asked during public health video showings. The goal is to provide feedback to content creators and session facilitators based a limited subset of the audience's questions. We analyze five videos produced ...

Community health workers (CHWs) have been shown to be an effective and powerful intervention for improving community health. Routine visits, for example, can lower maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Despite these benefits, many challenges, including ...

Information access by low literate users is a difficult task. Critical information, such as in the field of healthcare, can often mean the difference between life and death. We have developed spoken language interface prototypes aimed at low literate ...