We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
Summary of papers included in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth supplement "Community-based strategies to improve maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia"
From the beginning of the response to the Ebola epidemic in Mali in 2014, the country’s Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene has prioritized strengthening the reporting system of key diseases that have the potential to become epidemics. In 2016, MEASURE Evaluation, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with…
List of JSI presentations and posters at ICFP 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda.
Traditionally, most Nepali babies have been born at home—their umbilical cords often cut with dirty household tools, such as knives or sickles used in the fields. Using information handed down to them for generations, mothers would treat these freshly cut cords with turmeric, mustard oil paste or even cow dung. Infections were rampant, and many…
Home-based records (HBRs), known as child health cards in Nepal, are a key data collection and monitoring tool to ensure that children receive life-saving vaccinations. Child health cards have been part of Nepal’s national immunization program since 1979. However, the 2016 DHS shows that half of caregivers have either not received these vital health documents…
Although important for immunization data collection and monitoring, home-based records (HBRs)—known as child health cards—in Zimbabwe were often unavailable and undervalued. To address this, JSI and the Ministry of Health (MOH) staff in Manicaland province implemented a one-year intervention (with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) to improve the use, retention, and availability…
Middle-aged adults who are lonely have an elevated likelihood of death. Systemic inflammation may contribute to these increased odds. Using population-level data, this study tested if systemic inflammation is associated with loneliness in a broad age range of middle-aged adults in the United States. This study used data from the Midlife in the US (LIDUS)…
The Midway Report Card provides a check-in on how Vermont is doing in reducing tobacco use and burden. The report card presents a summary of the Vermont Tobacco Control State Plan objectives, baseline values, 2020 target values (measures of success) and midway point values per data available as of spring 2018.
Major gains have been made with the development and use of technology as a business enabler within Ethiopia’s Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA). Despite innovative improvements to supply chain operations, however, remote communities are still experiencing stockouts at the lower levels because PFSA lacks data visibility into facility and warehouse inventory levels and stock…
In the Dominican Republic, JSI assisted HIV-focused civil society organizations (CSOs) to develop a platform to expand access to primary health care (PHC), including HIV services, for key and vulnerable populations. Focusing on mobilizing resources efficiently, and increasing the pool of available funding domestically, within the country, JSI, through the Advancing Partners and Communities Project,…
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