Digital Learning Platforms

The platform originally built for COVID-19 response now provides health workers worldwide the targeted resources and support they need to boost knowledge-building and resilience.

The Center is investing in open-source tech-based solutions that can be replicated in local contexts and are helping to extend the reach and capacity of the health workers to focus on where they can have the best and highest value.

The Center is working with partners across Latin America to support the well-being and resilience of frontline health workers and also to build the capacity of health systems to provide that support.

The Center for Health Worker Innovation collaborated with the Financial Times and our partners to produce a series of photo essays that explore and build awareness of the challenges and opportunities facing the global health workforce.

The Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation and VillageReach have collaborated to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 through digital solutions that improve access to accurate COVID-19 information for people across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi and Mozambique, and provided remote training on COVID-19 for over 15,000 health workers.

The Center and UNICEF have been collaborating on digital technologies to educate frontline health workers about COVID-19, life-saving prevention strategies and, more recently, vaccination. Well-researched and vetted content is now accessible for health workers to readily deploy in their communities.

As COVID-19 spread across the globe, we at the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation began strategizing how to support frontline health workers in low- and mid-income settings. One early result was the formation of a new collective partnership with funding from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation among three of our partners, The World Continuing Education Alliance (WCEA), The Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery East Africa (AKU) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Together, we set out to design a mechanism to deliver vital training and education opportunities to frontline health workers managing dual imperatives: to prevent and treat COVID-19 while also providing primary health care amidst a potentially devastating interruption of health services, particularly in already fragile health systems.

With more than 5.1 billion unique mobile subscribers on the planet, access to a mobile phone now outstrips access to essential health services. Digital technologies—and mobile phones in particular—have potential to dramatically alter how healthcare is delivered and received.