Anne Teitleman's mobile health interventions target cancer risk

November 6, 2018

Anne Teitelman, Nursing & APC/GSWS Core Faculty, believes the key to helping women stay healthy is to meet them where they are, to bring the personal, health-related care into their daily lives, not sequester it to a once- or twice-a-year visit to a nurse practitioner, doctor, or another care provider. So, she built two apps.

The first, called Everhealthier Women, focuses on preventive health actions around cancers such as breast cancer and cervical cancer. The second, called NowIKnow, is aimed at getting 18- to 26-year-olds to complete the three-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine cycle.

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