About

The mHealth Alliance champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health throughout the world. Working with diverse partners to integrate mHealth into multiple sectors, the Alliance serves as a convener for the mHealth community to overcome common challenges by sharing tools, knowledge, experience, and lessons learned.

The mHealth Alliance advocates for more and better quality research and evaluation to advance the evidence base;  seeks to build capacity among health and industry decision-makers, managers, and practitioners; promotes sustainable financing  models; and supports systems integration by advocating for standardization and interoperability of mHealth platforms. 

The mHealth Alliance also hosts Health Unbound (HUB), a global interactive network and online knowledge resource center for the (mHealth) community that enables resource sharing and collaborative solution generation.

The idea for the mHealth Alliance emanated from a July 2008 conference in Bellagio, Italy hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation on the future of mHealth, during which participants committed to forming a non-profit mHealth coalition to maximize the impact of mobile technologies for health, especially in emerging economies, by ensuring interoperability and open-standards based solutions.

Hosted by the United Nations Foundation, and founded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Vodafone Foundation, and UN Foundation, the Alliance now also includes the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), HP, the GSM Association, and NORAD among its founding partners.

Meet the mHealth Alliance team