AWS Skilling and Social Impact

Category: Healthcare

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How AI-powered weather alerts help mothers survive extreme heat in Sub-Saharan Africa

Extreme heat events across Sub-Saharan Africa put pregnant and postpartum mothers at serious risk. AWS and Jacaranda Health built an open-source, event-driven serverless system that detects extreme heat days in advance and delivers personalized weather alerts via SMS to more than 240,000 mothers. The solution shows what’s possible when cloud-native architecture, generative AI, and deep domain expertise come together to give every mother the knowledge she needs to protect herself and her baby.

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5 social enterprises building a global response to the mental health crisis using AWS

The World Health Organization estimates that one in seven adolescents lives with a mental health condition, but access to care is limited. AWS is helping social enterprises close this gap with AI and cloud technology — from 3R Innovation’s Dr. Simon AI tool that supports 500,000 students with early detection, to Enrichly’s pediatric behavioral health infrastructure reaching 200,000 children. Learn how AWS customers are closing gaps in mental health access, reducing stigma, and meeting people where they are.