The study aimed to assess the potential benefits of a novel mobile health (mHealth) messaging app, known as SupportMoms –Uganda, for pregnant women in Uganda. This app was designed using behavioral science frameworks to enhance the use of maternity services. The app, known as SupportMoms-Uganda, represents a patient-centered and audio-based solution designed to empower and assist women in accessing essential maternity care services.
Download Support-Moms App HereThis 5 year Grant builds on Dr. Atukunda’s K43 work that she developed over the last 5 years under the mentorship of Prof Obua, Dr. Mugyenyi, Prof. Jessica Haberer (MGH/Harvard), Prof. Mark Siedner (MGH/Harvard) and Prof. Lynn Matthews (UAB).
Dr. Esther C Atukunda, PhD is a Pharmaco-epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer in department of Pharmacy at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. She has been invested in investigating alternative user centered, appropriate medicine and intervention use in low resource settings, utilizing observation studies, surveys, modeling cost-effectiveness and randomized controlled trials over the last 10 years in Uganda. She is a proud recipient of a CFAR, and a K43 award (K43TW011004) among others, focused on developing and testing a novel intervention using mHealth technology and social support to support women to access maternity care and improve maternal-child health outcomes, for which the current grant is premised. She also supports & supervises work of several MSc/MMed and PhD students in Uganda on medicine access, adherence, maternal health and health service utilization.
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