Collaborators: Aditya Vora, Tuhin Sengupta, Gautami
Funding Organisation: Grand Challenges Canada
Role: Design Lead - Project Management, Service Design, Design Research, Clinical Studies

Image Source: Healthy Newborn Network, https://www.healthynewbornnetwork.org/blog/kangaroo-mother-care-strategy-improve-quality-postpartum-care/

Image clicked during prototype-based clinical studies in a hospital in Hyderabad, India
India. The purpose of this visit was to see and study how Karnataka Health Promotional Trust (KHPT) had successfully implemented a scalable model for increasing KMC compliance and making the term KMC a household topic of conversation.
This tool will change neonatal care practices and improve research, it is necessary.
- A Neonatal Researcher and KMC Champion

Meeting and Interviewing Dr. Shashi Vani, head of the KMC Foundation of India about common practices, taboos and experiences.

Interviewing a mother of a newborn premature baby about KMC in Koppal District, Karnataka

Interview and Co-Creation workshop with Dr. Nathalie Charpak, founder of Kangaroo Mother Care

Observing practices of neonatal care at government hospitals in Koppal, Karnataka

Attending a community meeting to discuss health statisticswith ASHA workers in Koppal

Affinity Mapping: Consolidation of all Primary and Secondary research on post-it notes, colour coded by stakeholders and categorised based on the questions answered

Affinity Mapping: All post its were scanned using the Post it app and rearranged based on the colour coding or by stakeholder to find more trends and insights. All the insights were documented and used as a guideline for creating the final service and product

Product sketches by Aditya Vora, ideated collectively

A baby in the NICU being monitored using the Carelet prototype

A mother in a hospital in Hyderabad reading and reviewing the consent forms for the study

Clinically testing the prototype on mothers giving KMC

Charting the data from the Carelet prototype

A screenshot of Carelet featured in Grand Challenges list of 100 bold ideas to improve women and chidren's health and rights in the developing world - https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/31/1515272/0/en/100-Bold-Ideas-to-Improve-Women-and-Children-s-Health-and-Rights-in-the-Developing-World.html