Grant Awardees
CERMES Foundation Announces Telehealth Grant Awardees
The CERMES Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of its Telehealth Research Grant, aimed at driving innovative healthcare solutions for underserved communities in Ghana. This year’s awardees are two outstanding researchers whose projects harness technology to bridge critical healthcare gaps.
Godstime Valice Boateng will lead the project “Strengthening Child Health Outcomes Through Multilingual Audiovisual Education: Enhancing Caregiver Recognition and Response to Paediatric Danger Signs in Ghana.” This initiative seeks to equip caregivers with multilingual, audiovisual tools to quickly identify and respond to life-threatening symptoms in children, ultimately improving survival rates and health outcomes.
Celestine Forfoe will spearhead the development and implementation of a scalable AI-enabled telehealth intervention to improve the early detection, monitoring, and management of hypertension in an island community along the Volta Lake. By combining mobile health platforms with community health worker engagement, the project aims to reduce the burden of uncontrolled hypertension in this geographically marginalized population.
By supporting these projects, the CERMES Foundation reaffirms its commitment to advancing equitable healthcare through innovation. These initiatives demonstrate the power of telehealth in delivering life-saving knowledge, tools, and care to communities that need them most.
