We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the USAID-funded Asia Resilient Cities (ARC) Project works with the Municipality of Ulaanbaatar to support the city’s resilience goals. ARC uses systems thinking approaches to understand the various complex challenges and opportunities in Ulaanbaatar. The project engages a diverse group of city stakeholders and government officials to become systems thinkers in order…
Trials of Improved Practices or TIPs is a participatory formative research technique that engages potential program participants in the design of program strategies and activities focused on behavior change. This brief explains TIPs and why it is important, walks readers through the TIPs process, and provides a real-world example of using TIPs in global public…
The USAID-funded PMI Uganda Malaria Reduction Activity (MRA) aims to strengthen the capacity of malaria prevention and ownership of health at the community and household levels, while maintaining gains made at the health facility level in the five highest-burden regions of Uganda (Acholi, Busoga, Karamoja, Lango, and West Nile). Current and past malaria programs have…
A meta-analysis examining the relationship between electronic medical records and mortality was published by our USAID-funded Digital Health Activity team in Frontiers in Digital Health. The systemic review found, despite some heterogeneity in the 42 studies included, that implementation of electronic records resulted in a statistically significant reduction in mortality in inpatient, specialized and intensive…
This case study documents the collaborative process of developing, reviewing, and revising a country’s annual forecast. It draws technical guidance from UNICEF’s Immunization Forecasting and Supply Planning Toolbox, as well as best practices for forecasting from other health areas, including learnings from recent supply planning improvement activities.
Addressing the complex challenges of tuberculosis (TB) service delivery, particularly among urban migrants and homeless populations, is crucial if India is to eliminate TB. To reach these populations, India’s National TB Elimination Programme engaged the TB Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA) project to fund Humana People to People India (HPPI) in implementing the Leveraging, Engaging, and…
The USAID-funded Asia Resilient Cities (ARC) Project organized the Resilient City Hackathon on June 3-7, 2024, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with 25 youth between 18-29 years old. The objectives of the hackathon were to engage youth to develop innovative solutions to challenges that people who live in ger areas encounter and share their perspectives and ideas…
Kyrgyzstan ranks among the 30 global high-burden countries for multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and 18 priority countries for TB in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, with an estimated incidence of MDR-TB of 26 percent among new cases and 55 percent among previously treated cases. The USAID Cure Tuberculosis project, led by JSI in partnership…
Kyrgyzstan is one of the 30 global high-burden countries for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and the country experienced a significant decline in the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB and MDR-TB during the COVID-19 pandemic. National TB Program (NTP) data show a 32 percent decrease in cases detected in 2020 compared to 2019. A…
Despite the commitment and dedicated efforts by the Kyrgyz government and its development partners to combat tuberculosis, Kyrgyzstan remains among the 30 countries worldwide with the highest rates of difficult-to-treat multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB). In 2020, around 1,000 people were diagnosed with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). In total, there were an estimated 7,000 cases of TB in…
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