We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
In Da Nang, the Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project works with the Smart City program and other multisectoral stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and fund urban health activities on citizen reporting systems, waste management, food safety, and community engagement, among others. In order to encourage effective waste management and food safety practices, BHC is working with…
Although the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy for immunization has been in place for nearly two decades, many districts and health facilities face challenges in implementing its components. The Reaching Every District using Quality Improvement (RED-QI) approach combines the full RED strategy and quality improvement tools and processes, and advances RED from a “what to do”…
The Reaching Every District (RED) strategy is used by most African countries to strengthen management of routine immunization services at the district level and below to improve equity. However, many districts and health facilities have faced challenges in fully operationalizing RED. To address these challenges, JSI applied concepts and tools from the field of quality…
Aligning Systems for Health is an initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that focuses on identifying effective ways to align health care, public health, and social services to better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve. This book encompasses the first two years of learning from this project….
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,…
This case study shows how cStock, a mobile solution used to report and resupply health commodities, developed by Kenya-based InSupply Health, can be useful in humanitarian and fragile settings. inSupply has implemented cStock across four of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), where the environment is challenging and populations are remote, hard to reach, and sometimes…
In collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and EPI partners, JSI is excited to announce two news guidelines for implementation of the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy in Ethiopia. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance specific to implementation in Ethiopia. As a complement to the Ethiopian RED…
In collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and EPI partners, JSI is excited to announce two news guidelines for implementation of the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy in Ethiopia. In 2018, Ethiopia introduced an adapted version of the RED approach with guidance specific to implementation in Ethiopia. As a complement to the Ethiopian RED…
This Teachers Training Guidance was developed in partnership with the Madhya Pradesh Voluntary Health Association in support of the Health Promoting Schools initiative in Indore, India. A Health Promoting School is one that fosters health and learning by engaging health and education officials, teachers, teacher unions, students, parents, health providers, and community leaders in efforts…
By 2004, the Reaching Every District (RED) strategy became the approach used by most African countries to improve their routine immunization systems. However, many districts and health facilities faced challenges with implementation of of RED, finding the strategy difficult to fully operationalize. To address these challenges, JSI applied concepts and tools from the field of…
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