We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
This poster was presented at the 2021 TB Union Conference. From October 2019 to September 2020, the treatment success rate (TSR) for all forms of TB in Lango sub-region, northern Uganda improved from 75%, against the national target of 90%. Despite this improvement, several districts in the region had TSR below 90%. JSI-led USAID Regional…
This poster was presented at the 2021 TB Union Conference. According to the World Health Organization, Uganda’s national TB incidence is 200/100,000 (Global TB declared TB a national public health Report, 2020). In November 2019, Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MOH) emergency. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions interrupted continuity of essential TB services e.g….
In February 2020, as the spread of the COVID-19 accelerated across the globe, the Malawi National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Elimination Program (NTLEP) submitted a concept paper for a TB commitment grant (TCG). The concept focused on increasing facility-based case finding, an important intervention to find missing cases and increase TB case notification. Neither the NTLEP,…
Multiple barriers limit access to the full range of contraceptive options. The purpose of this quality improvement initiative was to increase single-visit access to the full range of contraceptive methods in primary care, postabortion, and immediate postpartum settings in New York City (NYC). From 2015 to 2018 we convened 2 learning collaboratives, named the Quality…
The USAID-funded Building Healthy Cities project (BHC) uses a systems thinking approach to support city planners and administrators in their relationships with citizens and civil society organizations to create traceable, transparent, and collaborative policy initiatives. In Kathmandu, Nepal, BHC used a systems mapping approach to work with the Department of Environment and 18 municipalities to…
Governments need to understand what it costs to deliver vaccines to reach coverage goals, address health equity, manage the introduction of new vaccines, and ensure efficient use of resources. Even in low- and middle-income countries where relevant and recent cost evidence is available, planning cycles and policy decisions are not always informed by evidence. The…
Purpose Malawi introduced the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine nationwide in January 2019, with a target population of nine-year-old girls. Early in rollout, some health facilities reported stockouts, raising questions about the accuracy of the age eligibility of girls registered during the initial population mapping exercise. Mapping results showed that the estimated number of nine-year-old girls registered…
Recognizing the need to address inequities in urban immunization coverage, particularly for urban poor populations, JSI designed an assessment to improve understanding of the capacity of the urban health system in Addis Ababa to deliver high-quality immunization services to urban poor and to then use this information to inform tailoring of the RED-QI approach for…
The goal of this theory of change is to provide funders, implementing partners, and designers a tool to increase the understanding and application of human-centered design (HCD) as an approach that enhances global health programming. The theory of change also aims to communicate the potential for HCD to introduce new and disruptive mindsets, practices, and…
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), a new frontier for human-centered design (HCD), is still largely unexplored. In global health, M&E is considered essential to good practice, and evidence and data are critical tools in program design, performance monitoring, impact evaluation, and adaptation and learning. As HCD is increasingly integrated into global health practice, designers and global…
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