Overview

Working in low resource settings across the globe, STEMA has identified common challenges to sustaining healthy communities. Too often, decision-makers face a lack of accessible data, and struggle to choose effective and sustainable interventions without a deep understanding of the local context. Meanwhile, those at the frontline of health inequalities rarely have a stake in designing relevant health interventions, and the informal health systems they already use are often overlooked. STEMA's mission is to develop tools and approaches that will empower everyone to find sustainable solutions for community health in low-resource settings. We are developing a set of tools that bring together participatory research, data innovation, and decision science. STEMA's approach is built from the ground up, informed by extensive fieldwork in low-resource settings around the world.