Public Health Solution Design Approach

Overview

The goal of Public Health is to drive public health initiatives through thought leadership, strategic partnerships with a shared narrative, and a DPI-driven technology approach to strengthen preventive, promotive and primary healthcare service delivery.

Problems Addressed

Health programs across countries often operate in silos, running multiple vertical campaigns such as NTDs, malaria, immunization, and bed net distribution. These efforts face common challenges:

• Fragmented data and lack of integration

• Delayed or incomplete reporting

• Stock-outs and poor visibility during campaign rollout

• Time-consuming and manual microplanning processes

DIGIT brings a transformative approach to public health by offering an integrated, scalable platform that simplifies campaign design, execution, and monitoring — all in one place.

Approach

The current approach has two main focus areas. First, it promotes the quick adoption of a health campaign tool for managing key health initiatives. Second, it takes a broader, citizen-focused path to improve preventive and promotive health services. This includes strengthening local health governance, increasing community health awareness, and enhancing the responsiveness of health systems.

DIGIT-Health is currently supporting public health interventions across several high-priority areas:

• Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): Streamlining planning and monitoring for mass drug administration

• Malaria Prevention: Supporting Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC), Insecticide-Treated Net campaign (ITN), and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) - streamlining household-level tracking and delivery workflows

• Immunisation Campaigns: Launch of polio, malaria and measles vaccination in Nigeria, ensuring accurate coverage and reducing missed populations through digital microplanning

• Nutrition-based Campaigns & Mass Drug Administration: Supporting Vitamin A Supplementation Programs to address nutrition gaps

The DIGIT platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to improve efficiency, coordination, and data use:

• Health Campaign Management:

  • Enables tailored planning at the household level

  • Ensures equitable coverage, reducing missed populations

• Console:

  • Enables program managers to create and configure APKs for new campaigns in a single day

  • Campaigns can be easily customised and replicated, saving time and effort

  • Supports customisation for campaign type, geography, and workflow

• Real-Time Dashboards:

  • Monitors campaign coverage, field staff performance, and stock availability in real time

  • Supports data-driven decision-making and rapid corrective action

• Integrated Platform for Multiple Campaigns:

  • Countries can use a single system to run and manage multiple health campaigns together on the same instance/infrastructure

  • Reduces duplication, increases efficiency, cost saving and simplifies training and scale-up

Impact

✅ Improved Campaign Quality

The platform enhances the overall quality of health campaigns by enabling detailed microplanning and incorporating real-time data feedback loops. This allows teams to identify gaps, adjust field operations on the fly, and improve coverage accuracy, ultimately making campaigns more effective and efficient.

⚡ Faster Execution

Campaigns that once took weeks or months to prepare can now be launched in a matter of days. With ready-to-use digital tools for planning, configuration, and rollout, the platform significantly shortens the time from campaign design to field implementation.

📊 Data-Driven Decisions

Program managers have access to real-time dashboards and analytics that provide actionable insights. These tools help identify delays, coverage issues, or stock shortages early, enabling timely interventions to avoid campaign failures and maximise impact.

🔁 Scalable & Adaptable

The platform is designed to support multiple types of campaigns, such as immunisation, malaria, and nutrition drives, through modular and configurable components. This flexibility allows it to be adapted for diverse geographies, health needs, and organisational workflows.

🌍 Equity-Focused Reach

By enabling household-level planning and disaggregated data analysis, the platform ensures that campaigns are inclusive and reach marginalised or hard-to-access populations. This focus on equitable delivery helps close gaps in health access and improves community outcomes.

Intervention Areas

Current and upcoming areas of intervention include -

1. Malaria - ITN, Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) and Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS);

2. NTDs - Schistosomiasis, Lymphatic filariasis (LF) and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases (STH)

3. Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaigns- Azithromycin

4. Nutrition-based campaigns - Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS)

5. Immunisation campaigns - Polio and measles