Health Equity · Digital Health · AI · Nepal

Health Equity
Through
Technology

Health Equity & Action Lab Initiative for Global Health Nepal

HEALING Nepal is an early-stage health innovation initiative based in Nepal, developing digital health and AI-assisted tools for primary healthcare in low-resource settings.

Based in Kathmandu, Nepal
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Focus Areas

Our work focuses on problems where simple digital tools can support frontline health workers, improve referral decisions, and reduce avoidable delays in care.

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Mental Health Clinical Decision Support

Digital App-Based mhGAP clinical decision support tool for management of common mental health conditions in primary care setting

A simple digital app that provides step-by-step clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up at the community level using the mhGAP guidelines.

Depression, Anxiety & Substance use

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Maternal Health Surveillance

Risk stratification models that analyzes remotely collected antenatal care data to identify high-risk pregnancies early.

This helps rural health workers prioritize care, reduce preventable complications, and ensure timely referrals without needing constant specialist access.

Antenatal care, high-risk pregnancy, monitoring, postpartum follow-up

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Surgical Aftercare

Post-operative wound monitoring at primary care settings and remote consultation with teams from tertiary care settings for postoperative management.

Health workers and patients can track healing progress through photos and simple symptom reports. The system is designed to flag signs of infection or complications.

Remote wound monitoring, Symptom tracking dashboards, Early-warning systems

2 Digital health prototypes under active development
7 Rural municipalities engaged across Nepal
3 Clinical focus areas under active development
54+ Primary healthcare workers reached

How It Works

From research to deployment, we move through a inclusive, collaborative, and user-centred approach.

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Research & Identify

We engage primary healthcare workers and communities to understand the needs, challenges, and opportunities for digital tools and AI integration in healthcare delivery.

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Prototype & Validate

We develop prototypes and test them with clinicians. We iterate tools until it works in real-time low-resource settings.

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Deploy & Scale

We release low-bandwidth, practical tools that healthcare workers can easily use and adopt.

Built by clinicians, researchers, and public-health practitioners

Our team is led by health professionals with experience in clinical care, health systems research, digital health, implementation science, and community-based work in Nepal.

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Clinical Grounding

Our tools are built around real primary-care workflows.

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Research-Oriented

Projects are developed with attention to evidence generation, evaluation, usability, and implementation outcomes.

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Partnership-Ready

We welcome collaboration with funders, academic institutions, local governments, and potential partners.

News & Updates

Stay updated on our project milestones, partnerships, and deployments.

mhGAP Training Session
Research February 2025

mhGAP Clinical Decision Support Tool: Prototype Phase

Oreintation of primary healthcare workers of Devdaha Municipal Hospital on app-based mhGAP clinical decision support tool.

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Community Health Worker Training
Partnership January 2025

Community Health Worker Engagement: Rural Municipality

Meeting with community health workers in Ward-09, Panauti Municipality on potential barriers and facilitators of digital health tools in their existing workflows.

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Maternal and child health community engagement
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

Dr. Prajjwol Luitel presented research on congenital genitourinary anomaly identification and referral in Nepal at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2025 in Chicago, USA.

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School Mental Health Training
Community 2024

School-Based Mental Health Awareness Training

Mental health awareness sessions for class 6-10 students in Sarada Primary School, Panauti, with an aim to destigmatize mental health from young age.

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Research 2024

Naltural Language Processing for Autism in Low-Resource Settings

Natural Language Processing-based autism screening tool adapted for low-resource settings, using speech and language pattern analysis to support early identification in primary healthcare settings.

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Our Supporters

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

TogetHER for Health

Panorama Global

Nepal Health Research Council

UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery & Anesthesia (CHESA)

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Let's Create
Health Equity Together

Whether you're a clinician, researcher, funder, engineer or technologist, we welcome collaboration. Fill in the form and we'll schedule a conversation about how we can work together.

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Location Saraswatinagar, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Email info@healingnep.org

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