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mHealth Summit

A Summit on Mobile Technologies as a Platform for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery

The mHealth Summit, a public-private partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, took place October 29-30, 2009 in Washington, DC. The Summit focused on mobile technologies as a platform for health research and healthcare delivery.

• View Webcast on NIH Site - mHealth Summit Day 1
• View Webcast on NIH Site - mHealth Summit Day 2
• mHealth Summit Site

About the mHealth Summit

The two-day event explored the role of biomedical research as the driver for the development of compelling applications based on mobile technology. The Summit brought together 450 to 600 U.S. and international researchers, technology experts, and policymakers in the public sector, as well as those from academia, industry, and NGOs to:

• Assess current policies regarding mobile health technologies and their use in reducing or eliminating domestic and global health disparities
• Build bridges between the scientific community and mobile technology developers to identify mHealth solutions
• Highlight scientific opportunities and challenges in using mobile technologies to improve public health
• Discuss and craft a vision for the development and use of mobile technologies in the future

Partnering NIH Institutes and Centers included:

• Fogarty International Center (FIC)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
• National Center on Research Resources (NCRR)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)

For additional information, contact:

Dr. Barbara Mittleman
Director, Program on Public-Private Partnerships, Office of Science Policy

Sponsors

The mHealth Summit is sponsored by FNIH in partnership with the NIH, the U.S. State Department, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, and the World Bank. Supporting industry members are Microsoft Research, the Abbott Fund, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, Inc.