We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Modeling contributes to health program planning by allowing users to estimate future outcomes that are otherwise difficult to evaluate. However, modeling results are often not easily translated into practical policies. This paper examines the barriers and enabling factors that can allow models to better inform health decision-making. Through three iterations of the DMPPT applied to…
Providing vaccines in multidose presentations entails balancing trade-offs among timely coverage, wastage, safety, costs per dose, supply chain, and healthcare worker (HCW) behavior, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of lower versus higher dose per container (DPC). Beginning in 2016, the Dose Per Container Partnership (DPCP) conducted a series of activities to document how governments make…
The USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project aims to increase the understanding of the best routes for improving the social determinants of health in urban contexts. In its first year, BHC conducted several exploratory data collection activities in two Smart Cities to inform the project's approach. The resulting data is intended to be used by…
The SPRING project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, designed a set of 10 posters for hospitals and health facilities about the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI). These posters describe the principles of a “friendly” approach toward mother and baby, as well as breastfeeding steps. The posters stress the importance of breastfeeding…
Introduction: The Government of India initiated the Smart City Mission in 2015 with the aim of comprehensive urban development for 100 cities. Swachh Bharat Mission was also launched nationwide in 2014 with the goal of advancing universal sanitation coverage. Indore was selected as a Smart City; it was also declared the cleanest city in India…
This two-page brochure highlights the work of the USAID Transform: Primary Health Care project. The goal of USAID Transform is to contribute to creating an Ethiopia made up of healthy, productive, and prosperous Ethiopians. The objective of USAID Transform: Primary Health Care is to contribute to achieving Ethiopia's four transformational health agendas: transformation, quality and…
Urban health is complex and only gets more so as people continue to migrate from rural areas, stretching already scarce resources even further. When drought struck Ethiopia in 2016, agrarian and pastoralist communities were particularly hard hit. Many people migrated to urban areas, which strained the existing social services, including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)…
Strengthening Ethiopia's Urban Health Program (SEUHP) implemented a quality improvement model using a Plan, Do, Act and Study (PDAS) approach in line with the Ethiopia FMOH's National Health Care Quality Strategy (2016-2020). The primary focus of the quality improvement work is to improve community-based health services implemented through urban health extension professionals including interventions targeted…
The Ethiopia Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) was launched in 2009 at the national level to create health equity by generating demand for essential health services through the provision of health information at the household level and access to services through referrals to health facilities. This technical brief highlights Ethiopia's approach to urban health, including the capacity building of urban…
Currently, more than 17 million people in Ethiopia (nearly 19 percent of the total population) live in urban areas. Urban populations face a triple threat: infectious diseases like HIV, TB, pneumonia, and diarrhea; noncommunicable diseases like asthma, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes; and violence and injuries, including traffic collisions. Due to such multifaceted challenges a new approach to mitigate the complicated health problems…
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