Inputs from ASHAs to shape AI-enabled training platform for cervical cancer screening in Assam
Field experiences from rural healthcare workers (ASHAs) in Assam are being used to shape a new AI-enabled training platform and multilingual voice chatbot. Developed by research institutions, the tool aims to improve cervical cancer screening and community outreach by addressing practical grassroots challenges.
Why it matters
Involving frontline healthcare workers directly in the design of digital tools ensures that health interventions are practical, culturally appropriate, and genuinely useful in rural settings.
The field experiences of about 110 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) will help design an Artificial Intelligence -enabled training platform and a multilingual voice chatbot to strengthen cervical cancer screening and community counselling in rural Assam .
The George Institute for Global Health India and Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in southern Assam’s Barak Valley will develop digital tools based on these ASHAs’ inputs. They shared their day-to-day challenges with a team of trainers, doctors, programme coordinators, researchers, and technologists at a workshop in Silchar.
The workshop, organised recently, was part of a three-year pilot study on leveraging AI for more effective cervical cancer screening funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
The ASHAs discussed the day-to-day challenges they face, the support that would actually help them, and how technology could make their community visits and counselling easier.
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