About

About the Project

Iggy Handwash was conceived by a research group named Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit "MORU", a joint collaboration unit between Mahidol University with the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University.

Due to a great amount of anxiety related to COVID-19 arguably ,the constant vigilance one needs to have to effectively wash their hands often enough, or wear masks. Habits are great. After a habit is formed, you will not have to constantly remind yourself to perform the habit. That's a lot better than worrying about it all the time. Better yet, these habits will also carry over to other diseases after the COVID-19 outbreak.

‘Keep calm and wash your hands - optimising community hand hygiene interventions to combat COVID-19’ is an interactive platform that uses insights from behavioural science and health psychology to help improve handwashing habits.

Our Mission

Iggy may grow into a platform that can customize interventions, which will help inform public policy about future hand washing engagement campaigns. Data collected on community hand hygiene will help fuel insights generated from disease modelling because community data on hand hygiene is currently lacking. Future plans include expanding to other platforms including Facebook, Whatsapp, providing an interface to the system directing on the website itself and additional languages including Mandarin Chinese, Hindustani, Spanish, Burmese, and Thai.