“HealthLearn: Impact Evaluation and Next Steps” by Marshall, karlkeefer

TL;DR HealthLearn provides accredited, engaging, mobile-optimized online courses for health workers in Nigeria and Uganda. We focus on lifesaving clinical skills that are simple to implement. Our recent evaluation of the HealthLearn Newborn Care Foundations course showed significant improvements in birth attendants’ clinical practices and key birth outcomes. Early initiation of breastfeeding, strongly linked to reduced newborn mortality, improved significantly in the evaluation. After applying large (>10X) discounts, we estimate the course is ~24 times more cost-effective than GiveWell's cash transfer benchmark. We are uncertain about the precise magnitude of impact, but a sensitivity analysis suggests that the program is cost-effective under a wide range of plausible scenarios. Our already-low unit costs should decline as we scale up. This is likely to increase or at least maintain the program's cost-effectiveness, even if the impact per trainee is lower than our current point estimate. We also earn revenue by hosting [...] ---Outline:(00:06) TL;DR(01:50) Background(02:48) Newborn Care Foundations(04:16) Our Clinical Practice Evaluation(04:48) All Models Are Wrong - Some Are Useful(07:36) Substantial Uncertainties(09:01) Modeling Impact at Scale(11:53) Discussion(14:12) Broader Implications(17:02) Conclusions and Next Steps(18:31) How You Can Help(19:46) Acknowledgements--- First published: February 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dA99mkei3mKrojDA9/healthlearn-impact-evaluation-and-next-steps --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.