Does Information and Communication Technology Add Value to Citizen-Led Accountability Initiatives in Health?

Marta Schaaf1, Shruti Chhabra2, Walter Flores3

  • 1Director of programs and operations at the Program on Global Health Justice and Governance in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. At the time this research was conducted, she was the Deputy Director of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, also in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health.

Health and Human Rights
|December 21, 2018
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