Emily Michael
United States
The Community Health Toolkit (CHT) is a global public good that supports health workers as they deliver care in reimagined health systems. The CHT includes a collection of open-source software (OSS) frameworks and applications, with resources to help partners design and deploy digital tools such as apps for use by care teams with the support of an active community of collaborators. The CHT is able to support care coordination for antenatal care, postnatal care, non-communicable diseases, immunizations, integrated community case management, and nearly any infectious disease, including TB, HIV, and most recently, COVID-19. The CHT’s modular tools work together as an integrated platform for infectious disease preparedness, surveillance, and response as well as routine community health services, and can be quickly configured for specific partner needs. Apps built on the CHT and deployed in well-supported community health systems have demonstrated success through an increase in Universal Health Coverage, reduction in maternal and child mortality and increase in the speed, access, quality of care provided at the household level. Currently, the digital health apps built using the CHT are actively deployed in 15 countries in Africa and Asia and are used by nearly 40,000 health workers to support up to 1.8 million caring activities each month.