My Daily Health

Mame Marème Fall of Kajou Senegal in Senegal will develop a platform to increase access to accurate health information, including information on available healthcare services, to improve the quality of life for rural populations in Senegal. They will use a Large Language Model to create a database of health information with a chatbot interface enabling questions and answers by either speech or text, including spoken questions in either French or Wolof. The database will be accessible online via internet technology that accommodates connections of short duration and low bandwidth, and it will be available offline as content stored on mobile phone microSD cards. They will evaluate the quality of answers to health questions through the system by engaging experts and by surveying users through pilot distribution of 1,000 microSD cards with the database.