Health Equity & Action Lab Initiative for Global Health Nepal
HEALING Nepal is an early-stage health innovation initiative based in Nepal, developing digital health and AI-assisted tools for primary healthcare in low-resource settings.
Our work focuses on problems where simple digital tools can support frontline health workers, improve referral decisions, and reduce avoidable delays in care.
Digital App-Based mhGAP clinical decision support tool for management of common mental health conditions in primary care setting
A simple digital app that provides step-by-step clinical decision support for screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up at the community level using the mhGAP guidelines.
Depression, Anxiety & Substance use
Risk stratification models that analyzes remotely collected antenatal care data to identify high-risk pregnancies early.
This helps rural health workers prioritize care, reduce preventable complications, and ensure timely referrals without needing constant specialist access.
Antenatal care, high-risk pregnancy, monitoring, postpartum follow-up
Post-operative wound monitoring at primary care settings and remote consultation with teams from tertiary care settings for postoperative management.
Health workers and patients can track healing progress through photos and simple symptom reports. The system is designed to flag signs of infection or complications.
Remote wound monitoring, Symptom tracking dashboards, Early-warning systems
From research to deployment, we move through a inclusive, collaborative, and user-centred approach.
We engage primary healthcare workers and communities to understand the needs, challenges, and opportunities for digital tools and AI integration in healthcare delivery.
We develop prototypes and test them with clinicians. We iterate tools until it works in real-time low-resource settings.
We release low-bandwidth, practical tools that healthcare workers can easily use and adopt.
Our team is led by health professionals with experience in clinical care, health systems research, digital health, implementation science, and community-based work in Nepal.
Our tools are built around real primary-care workflows.
Projects are developed with attention to evidence generation, evaluation, usability, and implementation outcomes.
We welcome collaboration with funders, academic institutions, local governments, and potential partners.
Stay updated on our project milestones, partnerships, and deployments.
Oreintation of primary healthcare workers of Devdaha Municipal Hospital on app-based mhGAP clinical decision support tool.
Learn More →Meeting with community health workers in Ward-09, Panauti Municipality on potential barriers and facilitators of digital health tools in their existing workflows.
Read More →Baseline data collection for our maternal health risk prediction model has commenced in partnership with community health posts, focusing on high-risk pregnancy identification in rural communities.
Read More →Dr. Prajjwol Luitel presented research on congenital genitourinary anomaly identification and referral in Nepal at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2025 in Chicago, USA.
Read More →Mental health awareness sessions for class 6-10 students in Sarada Primary School, Panauti, with an aim to destigmatize mental health from young age.
Read More →Natural Language Processing-based autism screening tool adapted for low-resource settings, using speech and language pattern analysis to support early identification in primary healthcare settings.
Learn More →Predictive Risk Intelligence for Your Abdominal wound — a multimodal AI-powered, community-deployed wound surveillance platform for early detection of post-cesarean surgical site infection. PRIYA combines thermal imaging, skin-tone-calibrated wound photography, and clinical metadata to generate objective wound metrics, detect early signs of infection, support triage, and predict healing trajectories — ultimately reducing complications, healthcare costs, and improving recovery outcomes.
Learn More →We are grateful to our partners and supporters who share our vision of health equity through innovation.
TogetHER for Health
Panorama Global
Nepal Health Research Council
UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery & Anesthesia (CHESA)
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Whether you're a clinician, researcher, funder, engineer or technologist, we welcome collaboration. Fill in the form and we'll schedule a conversation about how we can work together.