We work to help our clients achieve results that improve health systems, services, and, ultimately, people’s lives.
With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), awarded through the “Improving Clinical and Public Health Outcomes through National Partnerships to Prevent and Control Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Threats” program, JSI works closely with the CDC Division of STD Prevention to develop new and expand existing training opportunities for the disease…
Madagascar continues to experience periodic stockouts for contraceptives – including DMPA-SC – impacting its ability to attain its FP2020 goals. While in common with many other LMICs, stockouts at the last mile are frequent due to systemic and difficult to resolve factors like poor infrastructure, limited capacity, and weak supply chains. Madagascar faces a…
Immunization services in low- and middle-income countries have historically focused on supply and delivery functions, including quantitative analyses to measure results and impact. There has been insufficient attention to the qualitative and socio-behavioral considerations that improve confidence, acceptance, use, and demand. The recent global focus on immunization inequity and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical…
To address the limitations identified with procurement and distribution of MNCH devices, this project will establish a prime vendor system (PVS) that targets distributors (prime vendors) in Zambia and Uganda with a select list of maternal and newborn devices that would improve access at guaranteed pricing. This model allows for strategic market shaping by supporting…
The Maine Shared Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) has been conducting collaborative statewide needs assessments since 2007. The collaboration consists of a public/private partnership among the four largest health systems in Maine – Central Maine Healthcare (CMHC), MaineGeneral Health (MGH), MaineHealth (MH), Northern Light Health (NLH), and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention…
To better respond to the health needs of youth and families in the city of Cambridge, Cambridge Public Schools, in collaboration with the Cambridge Health Alliance and Cambridge Public Health Department, conducts a biennial youth risk behavior survey (YRBS). The YRBS assesses health behaviors and risks for middle and high school students. As part of this…
The disproportionate impact on Black and Latinx communities in the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the urgency of why we must transform the Massachusetts healthcare system to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, and work towards health equity for all. Despite Massachusetts’ reputation as a leader in health reform, boasting the highest highest rate of…
The five-year USAID-funded U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) Malaria Reduction Activity in Uganda aims to improve the survival and well-being of Uganda’s most vulnerable pregnant women and children in selected regions. The Activity works with the Government of Uganda to improve technical, managerial, financial, and leadership capacity at all levels of the health system. The…
The COVID-19 vaccine collaborative supply planning (VCSP) initiative is a coordinated and proven intervention to enhance the COVID-19 vaccine supply planning ecosystem. Leveraging current global and local planning processes and data sources, the initiative has developed an approach to triangulate and analyze information to create and maintain robust and agile supply plans to support decisionmaking….
This one-year project, implemented by JSI Research and Training, Inc. (JSI) and funded by Merck Sharpe, and Dohme, is focused on defining and producing guidance on the key elements of HPV delivery systems that are critical to fully vaccinating girls against HPV. Our approach employs the following strategies: Conduct an evidence-based analysis to delineate the…
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