UN sustainable development goal (SDG) regards universal health coverage as integral to achieving SDG 3 'good health and well-being' and ending poverty and reducing inequalities. Yet, in responding this global challenge, UN also reports, 'the world is off-track': progress has been uneven between countries; and even within countries that have made gains, there is a significant number of people being left behind [1]. It is in this respect that mobile health (mHealth) intervention is being looked upon as a way of extending health coverage to those left behind. Applied for this purpose, mHealth intervention combines technological innovation with entrepreneurial ventures for sustainable development. As all sustainable development applications, this requires the engagement of multiple stakeholders as partners on a global scale. The world is more interconnected than ever and the mobile technology increases both the width and depth of the interconnection, making it both necessary and possible to create a multi stakeholder partnership to move the world into the sustainable future. As the Goal 17 of the SDG stipulates, sustainability is only possible when various institutions of the world work together in partnership and the same is true for the successful application of mHealth for low resource countries and regions. University, of course, has a very important role to play in the application of mHealth for sustainable development. It is as a leading institution of the world deeply involved in technological innovation and in the education of future talents and leaders. These two aspects, research and education, can be said to be the traditional roles of the university. From the 1990s, however, there has been rising discussions regarding an additional role of the university, coinciding with the rising interest in sustainability at the international level. These discussions are embedded in two different but overlapping issues of entrepreneurship and sustainable development and both issues point towards more active participation by universities to reach out to the broader society. This, in turn, calls for changes in the nature of research, education, and administration of the higher education institutions.