Malawi

Several projects (2003-2008) have occurred working with the Malawian Ministry of Health and …
These projects include:

• Reproductive health and family planning database and reporting system supported by CIDA.
• Multi-Agent Simulation for helping to plan nursing resources. 
• Multi-Agent Simulation for looking at Infectious Disease outbreaks.  This system was called IDESS (Infectious Disease Emergency Simulation System). 
• Health facility reporting system using data collected by JICA.  
• A system that utilized low-bandwidth satellite pagers and web-based mapping system to report real-time on the outbreak of new diseases or to respond to an emergency such as refugee displacement.  This system was called the Global User Surveillance and Emergency Response System (GuSERS).