Research & Impact
Our research helps to demonstrate how digital tools can strengthen health systems and how data can be leveraged for health impact. At D-tree, we are committed to evidence-based decision making and use research and evaluation to guide our work. See our research publications below.
Our Research Highlights
May 2022
Deep Learning and its Application for Healthcare Delivery in Low and Middle Income...
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
May 2022
Improving health facility delivery rates in Zanzibar, Tanzania through a large-scale...
Health Policy & Planning
May 2022
Jamii ni Afya: using digital tools to scale integrated services to mothers and children...
Early Childhood Matters
Our Research Publications
Jan 26, 202020(1), p.50
Errors in estimated gestational ages reduce the likelihood of health facility deliveries: results from an observational cohort study in Zanzibar.
BMC Health Services Research
Dec 26, 20197(4):521-539
Effectiveness of an Electronic Partogram: A Mixed-Method, Quasi-Experimental Study Among Skilled Birth Attendants in Kenya.
Global Health: Science and Practice
Jun 26, 201818;13(6):e0199400. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199400.
Impact of smartphone-assisted prenatal home visits on women’s use of facility delivery: Results from a cluster-randomized trial in rural Tanzania.
PLoS One
May 26, 20164(2):315-325
Family planning counseling in your pocket: a mobile job aid for community health workers in Tanzania.
Glob Health Sci Pract
May 26, 2015Vol. 1 , Iss. 1
Using an eIMCI-Derived Decision Support Protocol to Improve Provider–Caretaker Communication for Treatment of Children Under 5 in Tanzania.
Global Health Communication
Jan 12, 2015Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 180-184
mHealth for Safer Deliveries: A mixed methods evaluation of the effect of an integrated mobile health intervention on maternal care utilization.
Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation