Work & Impact

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Our focus areas

We work to embed equity as a fundamental principle in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of digital technology.

We focus on interconnected issues across health and technology ecosystems: 

Gender-intentional digital health & FemTech

Digital Determinants of Health

Digital strategies

Equity-focused AI & data

Private sector collaboration

How we work

Collaborative Design

We ensure that our solutions are developed and owned by the people who use them, fostering a sense of trust and relevance that top-down approaches often lack.

Strategic Partnerships

We bring together experts, governments, the private sector, researchers, advocacy groups, and community organizations to drive innovation and social change across the health and technology ecosystem.

Our work in action

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – Digital health information (DHI)

How health.enabled helped optimize digital health information investments across 55 countries:


  • Led Theory of Change, intervention strengthening, and evaluation of Gavi-funded real-time monitoring of immunisation campaign (RapidPro) in Indonesia through collaboration with UNICEF Indonesia & local research partner, University of Indonesia School of Public Health.

  • Evaluated interventions in Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan in partnership with local researchers to leverage immunization as a use case for the Digital Health Strategy in Papua New Guinea with the Inter-Asian Development Bank, to conduct an investment review of DHIS2, and to support the prioritization of the 6 DHI intervention areas with WHO, UNICEF, and others.

    Also developed a Digital Social Listening Resource with UNICEF, WHO, and the Vaccine Demand Hub, setting the stage for health.enabled to develop the Gavi DHI Strategy.

  • Facilitated internal and external consultations to develop 8 technical briefs/evidence reviews that served as foundational inputs into a participatory design process culminating in Gavi’s Digital Health Information Strategy 2022-2025 & Costed Operational Plan.

    Operationalized the strategy through four National Gender-intentional Digital Health for Immunization Costed Roadmaps (Cambodia, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and Nigeria) and five practical guides for immunization stakeholders in English & French. 

  • Led a consortium of global partners (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Itad, and Center for Digital Health & Implementation Science Ethiopia) to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Gavi DHI Strategy, including development of baseline and annual monitoring reports, 11 case studies, eight  large-scale effectiveness studies, and two gender sub-studies.

    Co-facilitated workshop with UNICEF in Nairobi with national immunization managers from 13 countries to develop national costed roadmaps.

    Co-facilitated the development of an AI-powered dashboard to monitor Gavi’s digital health investments against country digital health maturity and immunization coverage and equity metrics.

  • Supported Gavi to expand its focus from digital health information to digital health for service delivery and direct to client engagement through opportunities mapping and prioritization, development of six technical briefs, and facilitation of strategy design sessions with steering committee (UNICEF, WHO, and Gates Foundation). 

Johnson & Johnson

Supporting public-private partnerships, program strategy, and technical support to J&J programs:

  • Supported strategy & governance for the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) collaboration under mHealth Alliance, including co-designing and transitioning to the National Department of Health of MomConnect (South Africa) & Family Connect (Uganda).

    Led the development of a Theory of Change to link the program to prioritized health outcomes, provided technical support, and led large-scale impact studies in Bangladesh, India, South Africa, Uganda, and China resulting in five peer-reviewed publications and a library of age and stage-based resources.

    The India evaluation of mMitra led to the re-design and massive scale up of ARMANN’s MNCH work that has been adopted by the Indian government.

  • Faster to Zero and PEPFAR partnered with government and non-government stakeholders in South Africa and Uganda to co-design targeted messaging focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

    health.enabled conducted an impact evaluation and collaborated with WITS University in South Africa on a peer-reviewed publication.

  • Conducted landscape study of Digital Health for Mental Health in Rwanda & mHealth for Military Caregivers in the U.S. with associated inventories and analyses of prioritized digital health interventions for investment consideration. 

    Started conceptualization for the Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM), which has over 150 key stakeholders and 70 countries participating. The GDHM is recognized as a digital public good, Anthem Awardee, and the monitoring platform for digital health ecosystems in WHO member states.

  • In collaboration with Living Goods in Uganda and Kenya, health.enabled was commissioned to develop a Digital Health for Community Health Worker (CHW) Maturity Model and How-To Guide that has since been used by Ministries of Health to assess and strengthen the adoption and use of digital health interventions within CHW programs.

  • Health in Your Hands engaged health.enabled to apply our Digital Self-Care Framework  to a Jacaranda Health Randomized Controlled Trial  & Theory of Change for linkages to health workforce through a digital front door.

Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM)

How health.enabled led a global consortium to conceptualize, launch, and scale a WHO-backed Global Public Good:


  • Co-design workshops held in Cape Town (2016) and Italy (2017) with 39 participants from over 15 countries, representing governments, private sector, academia and implementers, to identify use cases for the Index, define indicators and maturity model based on the WHO/ITU eHealth Strategy Toolkit.

    Funders for version 1 included Philips, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HIMSS, Johnson & Johnson, and The Rockefeller Foundation.

  • Through funding from the Gates Foundation, validated version 1 of the GDHM with 25 countries and launched the first interactive online platform. Published the State of Digital Health Report 2019.

  • Engaged Technical Committee to align the indicators with the WHO Global Digital Health Strategy and include a greater focus on AI, equity, gender, and Universal Health Coverage.

    Version 2.0 of the GDHI interactive platform was launched, providing  year on year performance monitoring, country visualizations, regional visualizations, and country to country comparisons.

    Mobilized 67 countries - representing nearly 30% of all countries globally - to complete the Monitor, which formed the basis of the State of Digital Health Report 2023.

    Funding for the version 2 redesign and country mobilization was provided by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

  • The GDHM was adopted by the World Health Organization as the official digital health maturity tool through the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) and integrated into the WHO Health Data Portal.

    GDHM was also recognized as a Global Public Good by Digital Square and  received a 2024 Anthem Award for Social Impact, further institutionalizing it as a trusted global resource.

  • Based on growing interest and evolving needs, GDHM will undergo an additional redesign process to update the indicator framework to track emerging themes in digital health such as AI for health readiness, more equity-centered indicators, personalized care tracking and AI-powered data insights.

    Data from the Monitor is also being used to build AI-powered dashboards to illustrate associations between digital health maturity and health outcomes, such as immunization coverage and women's health.

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