Digital Health · AI · Nepal

Health Equity
Through Intelligent
Technology

Health Equity Action Lab Initiative for Nepal & Global Health

HEALING Nepal is a digital health innovation initiative developing AI tools that improve healthcare delivery in low-resource settings, via disease identification, risk prediction, supporting clinical decisions, and follow-up.

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Based in Kathmandu, Nepal
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What We Do

Focus Areas

We build community-deployable AI tools that are practical, evidence-based, and designed for clinicians in under-resourced environments.

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Mental Health Treatment Support

Digital App-Based mhGAP Clinical Decision Support Tool to Enhance Management of Common Mental Disorders in Nepalese Primary Care

AI-powered clinical decision support tool tailored for frontline healthcare workers operating for management of common mental disorders.

e.g. depression, anxiety and substance use

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Maternal Health Monitoring

Remote monitoring prototypes and risk stratification models for maternal and neonatal health, reducing preventable complications in rural communities.

e.g. high-risk pregnancy alerts, postpartum follow-up systems, nutrition tracking

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Surgical Follow-Up

Digital tools that enable post-operative monitoring and complication detection outside hospital settings, improving surgical outcomes equitably.

e.g. wound assessment apps, recovery tracking dashboards, complication early-warning

3+ Active AI Prototypes in Development
17 Districts Engaged Across Nepal
100% Open-Source Commitment
54 Communities Served
Our Process

How It Works

From research to real-world deployment — we move through a clear, collaborative process to bring digital tools to those who need them most.

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Research & Identify

We engage frontline health workers and communities to understand real needs, bottlenecks, and opportunities for AI augmentation in care delivery.

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Prototype & Validate

Rapid prototyping with clinical partners. We test, iterate, and validate tools against ground truth data before any deployment.

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Deploy & Scale

Community-deployable, low-bandwidth solutions released as open-source tools — designed to scale across Nepal and similar low-resource settings globally.

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News & Updates

Stay up to date with HEALING Nepal's research milestones, partnerships, and community deployments.

mhGAP Training Session
Research February 2025

mhGAP Decision Support Tool — Prototype Phase Begins

Development of our digital app-based clinical decision support tool for mental health disorders in primary care has entered active prototyping, with initial testing in Kathmandu Valley.

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Community Health Worker Training
Partnership January 2025

Community Health Worker Engagement — 17 Districts

HEALING Nepal has begun stakeholder consultations with frontline health workers across 17 districts to map real clinical needs and co-design AI tools that fit existing workflows.

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Maternal Health December 2024

Maternal Risk Stratification Model — Data Collection

Baseline data collection for our maternal health risk prediction model has commenced in partnership with community health posts, focusing on high-risk pregnancy identification in rural communities.

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ACS Clinical Congress 2025
Conference October 2025

Presented at ACS Clinical Congress 2025, Chicago

HEALING Nepal presented research on congenital genitourinary anomaly identification and referral in Nepal at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2025 in Chicago, IL.

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School Mental Health Training
Community 2025

School-Based Mental Health Awareness Training

HEALING Nepal conducted mental health awareness and literacy training sessions in schools, equipping students and teachers with early recognition skills and destigmatizing mental health in youth communities across Kathmandu.

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NLP for Autism
Research 2025

NLP for Autism Screening in Low-Resource Settings

HEALING Nepal is developing a Natural Language Processing-based autism screening tool adapted for low-resource settings, using speech and language pattern analysis to support early identification where specialist access is limited.

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PRIYA - Wound Surveillance Platform
Innovation 2025

Introducing PRIYA — AI-Powered Wound Surveillance

Predictive Risk Intelligence for Your Abdominal wound — a multimodal AI-powered, community-deployed wound surveillance platform for early detection of post-cesarean surgical site infection. PRIYA combines thermal imaging, skin-tone-calibrated wound photography, and clinical metadata to generate objective wound metrics, detect early signs of infection, support triage, and predict healing trajectories — ultimately reducing complications, healthcare costs, and improving recovery outcomes.

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Acknowledgements

Our Supporters

We are grateful to our partners and supporters who share our vision of health equity through innovation.

TogetHER for Health

Panorama Global

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Equity Together

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Location Kathmandu, Nepal
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Email info@healingnep.org

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