We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
To better understand the various influences of COVID-19 on tobacco use, the authors examined three different tobacco user groups using qualitative methods. The authors held ten online focus groups with 61 adults from the Atlanta, GA area were held in October– November 2020: four with exclusive smokers, three with Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) users,…
The USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project is supporting data integration to improve data-driven decision making in Makassar, Indonesia, and worked with the city to adapt existing and familiar platforms. This activity was accomplished in 3 phases: stakeholder engagement; data aggregation and preparation; and training and capacity building. This report summarizes the series of workshops…
The transition from paper to digital systems requires quality assurance of the underlying content and application of data standards for interoperability. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed digital adaptation kits (DAKs) as an operational and software-neutral mechanism to translate WHO guidelines into a standardized format that can be more easily incorporated into digital systems. DAKs…
The life-course perspective, which provides the theoretical framework for JSI’s Beyond Survival series, emphasizes how events, conditions, and circumstances throughout a child’s life can greatly affect their outcomes later in life. Child health and well-being are recognized to be more than just biomedical health outcomes. As we understand it today, child health encompasses the lived…
The USAID Integrated Health System Strengthening and Service Delivery (IHSS-SD) Activity is supporting Pakistan’s Provincial Tuberculosis Control Program (PTP) to improve case detection for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and drug-sensitive TB (DS-TB) in three districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (Charsadda, Lakki Marwat, and Swat) and two districts in Sindh (Qambar Shahdadkot, Larkana). Since January 2021, PTP…
Providing COVID-19 vaccines is a priority of the Government of Pakistan, however ensuring equitable access to the vaccines is a challenge because nearly 63% of Pakistan’s population lives in remote areas where access to healthcare is limited and large health disparities remain (World Bank, 2021). JSI, through the USAID-funded Integrated Health Systems Strengthening and Service…
The USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity has been operating in Jarso Woreda since its launch in 2017 and has contributed to its rise from a low- to a high-performing woreda. The Activity’s engagement includes various trainings and capacity enhancement activities, distribution of supplies, and the introduction and implementation of new initiatives, as well as…
Although starting fiscal year (FY) 2021 slowly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USAID eSCMIS project exceeded annual targets for implementation of key project activities such as electronic management information system (eLMIS) deployments, health facility staff training, transitioning project activities to MOH, and incorporating new system enhancements. This annual report shows progress for the FY…
The purpose of the landscape review of existing measurement approaches, frameworks, and metrics utilized to measure partnerships is to inform the selection of evidence-informed, appropriate, and feasible measurement indicators to monitor partnerships within the MOMENTUM consortium. More broadly, the analysis provides an overview of the current state of partnership measurement and commonly utilized approaches including,…
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the use of complexity-aware monitoring within the MOMENTUM projects. MOMENTUM—or Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services, Voluntary Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Care (MNCH/FP/RH) to Scale—is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) flagship, multi-award program to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn,…
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