In Brief

  • Challenge: UN SDG 3 Challenge
  • Challenge Type: SFI Future Innovator Prize
  • Status: Active

The Solution 

 Develop a technology enabled care pathway that will empower community health workers in Uganda to deliver first line primary care for low back pain. Our solution comprises the development of a digital clinical decision support system that enables community health workers to safely identify low back pain cases that are amenable to self-management, assist the health worker in dispatching evidence-based self-management advice and identify those cases that should be referred onwards for specialist assessment and interventions. 

UN SDG Alignment

3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.  

The Team 

  • Team Lead: Dr Cliona O'Sullivan, University College Dublin
  • Partner Country Team Lead: Prof. Jerome Kabakyenga, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
  • Team Co-Lead: Prof. Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin