We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Healthcare in Haiti is extremely challenging, given the country’s history of poverty, poor infrastructure, social unrest and vulnerability to multiple types of natural disasters. In 2017, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) launched an intervention in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to strengthen the quality and use of immunization…
The USAID-funded “Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) Integration Activity in Madagascar (October 1, 2017 to July 30, 2019) had the objective of studying, documenting, and promoting the effective integration of PHE activities with the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Socila Protection, Ministry of Public Health and PHE stakeholders in Madagascar. In order to…
Malawi has one of the highest age-standardized incidence rates of cervical cancer in the world, with it accounting for 45 percent of all cancers in the country. In 2019-2021, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. JSI), with funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, provided technical support to the country's Ministry of Health for the human…
In Makassar, Indonesia, the Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project works with City Planning and Development (Bappeda), Kominfo, and other key stakeholders to support the city’s vision and long-term goal to become a world class city that is healthy and livable for all. BHC encourages multisector collaboration to address the complexity of healthy city issues. In…
In Da Nang, the Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project works with the Smart City program and other multisectoral stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and fund urban health activities on citizen reporting systems, waste management, food safety, and community engagement, among others. In order to encourage effective waste management and food safety practices, BHC is working with…
Although the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy for immunization has been in place for nearly two decades, many districts and health facilities face challenges in implementing its components. The Reaching Every District using Quality Improvement (RED-QI) approach combines the full RED strategy and quality improvement tools and processes, and advances RED from a “what to do”…
The Reaching Every District (RED) strategy is used by most African countries to strengthen management of routine immunization services at the district level and below to improve equity. However, many districts and health facilities have faced challenges in fully operationalizing RED. To address these challenges, JSI applied concepts and tools from the field of quality…
Aligning Systems for Health is an initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on identifying effective ways to align health care, public health, and social services to better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve. This book encompasses the first two years of learning from this project….
Through its work to encourage urban planning structures, the USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project (BHC) identified a major gap in multisector engagement relating to the private sector. While individual sectors have documented success with developing private-sector relationships, there is a gap in the knowledge base about how to develop private-sector relationships for urban health projects,…
This case study shows how cStock, a mobile solution used to report and resupply health commodities, developed by Kenya-based InSupply Health, can be useful in humanitarian and fragile settings. inSupply has implemented cStock across four of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), where the environment is challenging and populations are remote, hard to reach, and sometimes…
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