We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
The Health-at-a-Glance City Profile series highlights select metrics related to maternal and child health, noncommunicable disease, communicable disease, environmental health, and citizen reporting systems in three BHC partner cities. This profile focuses on Da Nang, Vietnam.
Families that adopt new health behaviors effectively and confidently can play a critical role in promoting community health. As the family successfully adopts each new action, they see that they can be the primary agents of improved household health and well-being. Fostering the emergence and growth of such families is an important element of many…
This brief highlights how, during to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Resilient and Responsive Health Organization (RRHO) project pivoted from in-person trainings to successfully conduct seven virtual sessions in DHIS2 concepts. From September to October 2020, RRHO conducted a virtual training to build the capacity of eight monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff from the National AIDS and STI…
This final cross-country report summarizes and synthesises key learnings and outputs from the Re-imagining Technical Assistance project in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to highlighting the methodology followed and lessons learned, the document presents an initial draft of design principles for better technical assistance, which are rooted in the voices of stakeholders who…
The Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project is conducting a series of three rapid feedback online surveys in Indore, India to understand citizens’ experiences and feedback towards existing infrastructure for cycling, walking, and driving within the context of road traffic management. The first survey of this series was conducted in February—March 2021 to specifically target current…
As part of the Global Accelerator to End TB, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Tuberculosis Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA) project, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. with partner Open Development, co-designs TB commitment grants, with national TB programs. TB commitment grants are fixed amount awards designed to align with national…
The Quality of Tuberculosis Services Assessment (QTSA) Global Toolkit consists of this Implementation Guide and the QTSA Global Tools. These materials are designed to be adapted to a specific country context for use by national tuberculosis programs (NTPs), donors, and other key stakeholders to assess the quality of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, treatment, and care services….
The Government of Tanzania introduced the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine nationally in April 2018. The HPV vaccine was introduced to adolescent girls to prevent cervical cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer among women in Tanzania. This journal article discusses the results of a desk review and key informant interviews designed to better understand…
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and global partners were informed by HPV vaccine manufacturers of vaccine supply constraints in 2018. Due to insufficient supply, Gavi-eligible countries, such as Tanzania, needed to determine which age cohorts to vaccinate against HPV based on available vaccine stock. This commentary discusses Tanzania's experience with HPV vaccine introduction and decisions made…
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,…
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