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The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), selected JSI to conduct key informant interviews with state and local public health department adult immunization coordinators and/or program managers, and their immunization partners, to address immunization of uninsured adults. The interviews elicited information about…
This project aimed to support vaccine product and program decision-making to include considerations of dose per container (DPC) to optimize equitable, timely, safe, and cost-effective coverage. The global effort to protect all people from vaccine-preventable diseases has historically leveraged multi-dose containers in low- and middle-income countries to offer lower prices and reduce the constraints on…
The HITEQ Center is a HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner (NTTAPs) that collaborates with HRSA partners including Health Center Controlled Networks, Primary Care Associations and other NTTAPs to engage health centers in the optimization of health IT to address key health center needs. HITEQ’s services are available at no cost to health centers…
The USAID DISCOVER-Health Project aims to improve the lives of Zambians by providing them with better access to quality health care. The project contributes towards HIV epidemic control in Zambia, while also providing technical assistance around integrated reproductive health, family planning, and maternal and child health services and products. These efforts include differentiated, person-centered care…
The Last 10 Kilometers 2020 Project (L10K 2020), the second phase of the L10K project, supports Ethiopia’s efforts to strengthen a responsive and resilient primary health care system that improves the health status of families and communities. It does so through innovative and evidence-informed reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) interventions. While Ethiopia has made…
JSI is working with the Rhode Island South County Hospital and its partners to evaluate their county-wide initiative to address childhood obesity and youth mental health, targeting the most disadvantaged communities. The South County, Rhode Island Health Equity Zone Initiative developed strategies based on community needs. The initiative brings together healthcare, community-based organizations, schools, and…
inSupply is an umbrella project incorporating seven supply chain components, which collectively aim to improve the performance and efficiency of contraceptive, vaccine, and essential medicine supply chain systems. The seven components are linked by a number of cross-cutting themes, namely increasing data visibility and the use of data to drive strategic and operational supply chain…
To address the high burden of childhood disease and deaths from diarrhea due to the rotavirus infection, the Government of India (GoI) introduced the rotavirus vaccine in a phased manner beginning in 2016. The country-wide scale up was completed in 2019. Since 2016, JSI has been helping to strengthen the introduction of rotavirus vaccine into…
JSI worked with the County of Orange Health Care Agency and the Tobacco Use Prevention Program (TUPP) to create and implement two comprehensive and creative public education media and social marketing campaigns to address youth and adult smoking prevalence. JSI used a community-based social marketing approach to develop two social marketing campaigns to 1) reduce the…
In Myanmar, at least 1,900 pregnant women and 53,000 children under the age of five die annually, largely from preventable causes. The government of Myanmar has committed itself to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. Despite improved coverage of health service interventions in some areas in Myanmar,…