All Posts: reproductive health

• Georgetown Researchers Launch ‘Nari Paila,’ Mobile Games to Share Information on Fertility Awareness, Family Planning in Nepal

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 24, 2019) — This month, Georgetown researchers launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people with information about fertility awareness and family planning. The mobile games, called “Nari Paila” (“Women First”), were developed in collaboration with Gaming Revolution for Inspiring Development (GRID). The games integrate information […]

  Category: News Release Tags: family planning, global health, reproductive health

• Fertility App ‘Dot’ Found to be As Effective Other Family Planning Methods

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) — Results of a first-of-its-kind prospective study with a family planning app find it to be as effective as other modern methods for avoiding an unplanned pregnancy. Researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center studied women’s use of the Dot app over […]

  Category: News Release Tags: family planning, reproductive health

• Georgetown Institute Launches Real-Time Study of Smartphone Fertility App Use

  WASHINGTON — In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) are recruiting as many as 1,200 women to study, in real time, a smartphone app that calculates a woman’s chance for pregnancy on a daily basis.

  Category: News Release Tags: population health, reproductive health