John Snow, Inc.- About JSI

This timeline highlights our growth and accomplishments, beginning with JSI's incorporation as a stand-alone institution in 1978 through 25 years of projects and events to 2003, our anniversary year. Projects that JSI staff have written about in detail below have been left off the timeline, to make room for some of the many other JSI efforts that could be mentioned.

1978

JSI founded by Joel Lamstein and Bert Hirschhorn

Health Service Delivery

Technical Assistance to Community Health Centers (CHC's)
JSI continues to work with CHC's across the country
DHHS/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Information Systems

Planning Data Systems
Department of Health & Human Services
(DHHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA))

Women's Health

Region I Family Planning & Training Center
JSI still manages this program today, bringing family planning services to under served women.
DHHS/OPA

1979

JSI Research and Training Institute founded as a non-profit organization

1980

Child and Adolescent Health

Tanzania School Health Program
JSI's first international project
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

1981

Health Service Delivery

Quality Assurance for a Small Planet
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Public Health

Nepal Integrated Rural Health/Family Planning Services Project
It remains JSI's longest continuous international project
USAID

1982

Denver Office opens to bring Title X services to DHHS Region VIII (Mountain States)

Joel Lamstein becomes President of World Education and organization relocates to Boston

Child Health

Egypt Control of Diarrhea Diseases Project
USAID

Health Service Delivery

Ambulatory Care Program Marketing Strategy
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts

Women's Health

Region VIII Family Planning & Technical Assistance Center
DHHS/OPA

1983

JSI Management Analysis Group, Inc. founded to do data processing, marketing, and consulting

Health Service Delivery

Factors Affecting Quality of Care (national study of Community Health Centers)
HRSA

Managed Care

Prepaid Medicaid Program Planning & Marketing Study
Syracuse Community Health Center, New York

Reproductive Health

Kenya Family Planning Private Sector Project
USAID

1984

Community Health

Mauritania Rural Health Services Project
USAID

Senegal Rural Health Project Phase II
subcontractor to HIID
USAID

Information Systems

JSI/MIS Clinic Management Software Package Introduced

1985

JSI opens Washington, D.C. office to administer global projects funded by USAID

Child Health

Primary Health Care Technology II Project: Resources for Child Health (REACH)
JSI's first centrally funded USAID project
USAID

Health Logistics

Eastern Caribbean Regional Pharmaceutical Management Project
USAID

Reproductive Health

Family Planning Enterprise Project
USAID

1986

Health Service Delivery

Evaluation of the Cost Effectiveness of Laboratory, X-ray, & Pharmacy Services in Community & Migrant Health Centers
DHHS/HRSA

Physician Practice Development
New York Health and Hospitals

Information and Planning Systems

Family Planning Services and Support Project, Kenya
USAID

Logistics Services

Family Planning Logistics Management (FPLM)
JSI's longest-running centrally-funded USAID project
USAID

1987

Health Care Financing

Ambulatory Care Financial Feasibility Study
Carney Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Physician Compensation Manual
New York State Department of Health

Health Service Delivery

Efficiency Review Studies of Veterans Administration Services
United States Veterans Administration

1988

Child Health

Yemen Accelerated Child Services Project
USAID

HIV and AIDS

AIDS Control and Prevention Project (AIDSCAP)
(subcontractor to Family Health International)
USAID

AIDS Regional Education & Training Centers Evaluation
HRSA

Training for Health Care Providers on the Psychosocial Aspects of AIDS
JSI's first HIV and AIDS Project
National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)

Training on HIV and AIDS for Providers of Family Planning Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (New Hampshire DHHS/Office of Rural HealthCDC)

Health Service Delivery

Nigeria Family Health Initiatives II Project
(subcontractor to Family Planning International Assistance)
USAID

Technical Assistance in Family Planning Management for Eastern Caribbean
USAID

Information Systems

Data System Design
Boston Health Care for the Homeless

Women's Health

MotherCare Maternal and Neonatal Health and Nutrition Project
USAID

1989

Health Care Financing

Papua New Guinea Health Sector Financing Study
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Health Logistics

NEWVERN Contraceptive Procurement system developed for USAID
USAID

Health Service Delivery

Comprehensive Practice Review
Brigham & Women's Hospital

Evaluation of Grant Review & Award Process
HRSA

Impact of Case Management on Selected Community & Migrant Health Centers
HRSA

Survey of Primary Preventative Services: Availability & Provider Practices
USAID

Technical Assistance to the National Medical Institute, Amman, Jordan
USAID

Information Systems

Illinois Department of Public Health Automated CVR Entry System (ACES)
Illinois Department of Public Health

Reproductive Health

Family Planning Services Expansion and Technical Support (SEATS)
USAID

Women's Health

Development of Comprehensive Perinatal Care Program
Pennsylvania Department of Health

1990

Child Health

National Pediatric Access Network (NPAN) and Technical Assistance on Information Systems Design for Agencies Providing Services to Homeless Children
Children's Health Fund

Papua New Guinea Child Survival Project
USAID

Philippines Child Survival Project
USAID

Technical Assistance to Homeless Programs
Children's Health Fund

Child & Reproductive Health

Nepal Child Survival and Family Planning Project
USAID

Community Health

Effectiveness of Community & Migrant Health Centers in Negotiating Prepayment Contracts
HRSA

HIV and AIDS

Evaluation of the HIV Service Demonstration Program
HRSA

Health Service Delivery

Operational Analysis and Reorganization Plan
Trustees of Health & Hospitals of the City of Boston

Strategic Planning & Operational Analysis
City & County of Denver Department of Health & Hospitals, Colorado

Information Systems

Veterans' Services Management Information Systems
Massachusetts Veterans Administration

Reproductive Health

Indonesia Health and Population Project (focus on NORPLANT)
ADB

1991

JSI Fundraising Systems Inc founded, develops fundraising software for non-profit organizations

HIV and AIDS

Technical Assistance & Training Support for the HIV and AIDS Bureau
Massachusetts DPH

HIV and AIDS and Substance Abuse

Residual Impediments to Treatment of HIV Infection & Substance Abuse Problems
HRSA

HIV and AIDS Epidemiology

Serosurvey of Blood borne Viruses among Surgeons
CDC

Health Service Delivery

Assessment of Initiatives in Primary Care
HRSA & University of Louisville, Kentucky

Philippine NGO Strengthening Project
USAID

Managed Care

Design & Implementation of a Comprehensive Preventative Health Program
Indian Health Service & Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, Massachusetts

Public Health

Health Care for the Homeless Support Services
Tuberculosis within the Homeless Population: A Resource Kit
HRSA

Reproductive Health

Kenya Private Sector Family Planning II Project
USAID

1992

Community and Reproductive Health

Mali Community Health and Population Services Project
USAID

Community Health

Community Health Needs Assessment
Penobscot Nation, Maine

Evaluation of Perinatal Home Visiting Demonstrations in Community Health Centers
HRSA

Indonesia Community Health Services Project
ADB

Environmental Health

Aluminum Smelter Workers Health Study
JSI's first environmental project
Brett & Daugert

HIV and AIDS

HIV and AIDS Training for Mental Health Providers
(with Harvard School of Medicine & Boston University School of Medicine)
Video on AIDS services for substance abusers
Center for Mental Health Services

Health Care Financing

Private Sector Family Health Component of the Health Financing and Sustainability Project
(subcontractor to Abt Associates)
USAID

Health Service Delivery

Evaluation of the New York State Primary Care Initiative
New York State DOH

Retention of Primary Care Providers at Community Health Centers
Agency for Health Care Policy & Research and HRSA

Survey of Non-Referring Physicians
New England Medical Center, Massachusetts

Managed Care

Evaluation of the Maryland Access to Care Demonstration: Managed Care for Medicaid Recipients
Health Care Financing Administration

Public Health

Administration of Labor Shortage Initiative
Department of Medical Security, Massachusetts

Substance Abuse

Work site Prevention of Alcohol Problems (with the Harvard School of Public Health)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Women's Health

The Health of Women: A Global Perspective
JSI/MotherCare publication
USAID

1993

Child Health

Opportunities for Micro nutrient Intervention Project (OMNI)
USAID

HIV and AIDS

Massachusetts GP 160 HIV Vaccine Trial
(with MicroGeneSys, Inc., and Wyeth-Ayerst Research Division Massachusetts DPH)

Ryan White C.A.R.E. Act Technical Assistance 1993 - 2001
(2001-05 as subcontractor to Betah Associates)
HRSA/HIV/AIDS Bureau

Health Care Financing

East Caribbean Health Care Policy Planning and Management Project
USAID

Public Health

Evaluation of the Health Care for the Homeless Program
(subcontractor to SOLON Consulting Group, Ltd.)
HRSA

New York State Healthy Heart Program
New York State DOH

Substance Abuse

Massachusetts Tobacco Education Clearinghouse
Start of continuing work by JSI in support of Massachusetts Tobacco Program
(now Try-to-STOP Resource Center)
Massachusetts DPH

1994

Child Health

BASICS Project
The Partnership for Child Health, a consortium of JSI, AED and MSH, formed
USAID

Environmental Health

Every Community's Right to Know: the Local Environmental Information Centers Project
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental Health Project (EHP)
(subcontractor to Camp Dresser & McKee)
USAID

Pequiven Petrochemical Complex, El Hornitos, Venezuela
(with Center for Justice and International Law and Physicians for Human Rights)
C. S. Fund

HIV and AIDS

Coordinated HIV Case Management
Massachusetts DPH and Boston Department of Health & Hospitals

Five Year Needs Assessment and Planning Report on the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in Massachusetts
Massachusetts DPH/HIV/AIDS Bureau

Self Assessment Tools for Ryan White HIV Planning Councils and HIV Care Consortia
HRSA

HIV and AIDS and Health Service Delivery

Malawi Support to Family Health and AIDS (STAFH) Project
USAID

Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform in Vermont
Vermont Legislative Council

Health Service Delivery

Yemen Options for Family Care Project
USAID

Maternal and Child Health

Morocco Family Planning and Maternal Child Health Care Phase V Project
USAID

Public Health

Breast Cancer Initiative
Massachusetts DPH

1995

JSI/New Hampshire office, known as the Community Health Institute, opens

Child Health

Indonesia Health Information Systems Project (CHN-III)
World Bank

Environmental Health

Limpari Landfill Community Health Survey
Limpari Information Network, New Jersey

HIV and AIDS and Health Service Delivery

Family Health and AIDS in West and Central Africa
USAID

Health Sector Reform

Data for Decision-making Project, Poland
(subcontractor to Harvard University)
USAID

Health Service Delivery

Health Care Practice in a Reformed Market
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

Technical Assistance to the Rural Health Coalition
Rural Health Coalition, New Hampshire

Managed Care

Study of Large Employers' Implementation of Managed Competition
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Public Health

Weapon Injury Surveillance: Enhanced Reporting
Massachusetts DPH & Health Research Institute

Refugee Health

Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium launched JSI one of five original Consortium members
Mellon Foundation

Reproductive Health

Zambia Family Planning Services Project
USAID

The MotherCare Experience published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
USAID

Substance Abuse

Research & Evaluation Focus Groups
Massachusetts DPH/Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS)

Women's Health

Infertility Prevention Program Region I and VIII Chlamydia Project
CDC/OPA

1996

Child Health

New Hampshire Child Health/Child Care Link
HRSA/MCHB

Community Health

Champaign County, Illinois: Integrated Service Network Development
Stakeholders Group for Community Health Care

Environmental Health

Dover Township Childhood Cancer Investigation
Ocean County, New Jersey Board of Health

Oak Ridge, Tennessee: National Laboratory, K-25 Worker Health Evaluation
PrSM Corporation

HIV and AIDS

Studies to Estimate the Prevalence of HIV in Selected Massachusetts Populations
Massachusetts DPH

Health Logistics

Local Government Essential Drug Distribution Systems (LGEDDS)
World bank

Health Sector Reform

Venezuela Health Sector Reform Program
Inter-American Development Bank

Health Service Delivery

Coordinated Health Care Delivery System for Jefferson County, Alabama
Council for a Coordinated Health Care Delivery System

Kenya JICA Bilateral Design Team (subcontractor to Pacific Consultants Int'l)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

System-Wide Evaluation: Martha Eliot Health Center
Children's Hospital, Massachusetts

Health Service Delivery and Reproductive Health

Bangladesh Urban Family Health Project
USAID

Managed Care

Evaluation of Demand Management in HMO's
Harvard School of Public Health

Technical Assistance to Health Care Transition Fund Grantees
NH Office of Health Management

Public Health

Estimates of the Number of Uninsured Children in New Hampshire
NH Office of Health Management

Women's Health

Technical Assistance to Community Integrated Service System (CISS) Grantees
HRSA/Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)

1997

JSI Clinical Research Division is incorporated to manage clinical trials for private pharmaceutical firms

Instituto PROMUNDO, an affiliate of JSI Research & Training Institute, founded in Brazil

Adolescent Health

South Dakota Youth Peer Education Survey Project
South Dakota Department of Health

Child Health

New Hampshire Kids Count Report
Children's Alliance of New Hampshire

Health Services Delivery

Assessment of University Hospital/Health Department Affiliation
Ohio State University Medical Center

HIV and AIDS

Women of Color AIDS Council
Massachusetts DPH/AIDS Bureau

Public Health

Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program Evaluation
New York Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance

Newton Breast Cancer Study
Massachusetts DPH & Silent Springs Institute

Turning Point Initiative, New Hampshire
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Substance Abuse

Treatment Outcomes Performance Pilot Study (TOPPS)
Massachusetts DPH/BSAS

1998

John Snow, Inc. Research & Training opens in United Kingdom

Environmental Health

Health Environments and Living Places (HELP) for Kids
EPAS

HIV and AIDS

Evaluation of Massachusetts Non-Name System of HIV Reporting
Massachusetts DPH

HIV and AIDS Technical Assistance to Vietnam National Youth Union
UNFPA

National Non-Occupational HIV Post exposure Prophylaxis Registry
CDC

Health Care Financing

The Transformation of Corporate Health Care Purchasing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Logistics

Pocket Guide to Managing Contraceptive Supplies JSI/Family Planning Logistics Management Project
USAID

Health Service Delivery

JICA/Malawi Bilateral Project Design
(subcontractor to Global Link)
JICA

Rural Health Round Table
New Hampshire DHHS/Office of Rural Health

Managed Care

Health Resources & Services Administration Managed Care and Health Services Financing Technical Assistance Center (MCTAC)
HRSA

Public Health

Firearm Safety (New Hampshire)
American Public Health Association

National Observational Studies of Personal Floatation Device Use
US Coast Guard

Refugee Health

Refugees and Reproductive Health Care: The Next Step
Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium

Reproductive Health

Reproductive and Sexual Health Resource Center
Department for International Development, United Kingdom (DfID)

Substance Abuse

Aging, Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Primary Care (with Harvard University)
HRSA, Veterans Administration, and SAMHSA

1999

Child Health

Perinatal Needs Assessment
New Hampshire Chapter of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation

Child Health and HIV and AIDS

Dominican Republic Global Orphans Project
USAID

Environmental Health

Environmental Health Project II (subcontractor to Camp Dresser & McKee)
USAID

HIV and AIDS

Health Planning/Needs Assessment Support for HIV Health Services Planning Council
County of Santa Clara, California

Measuring Adherence in HIV Clinical Trials: Development and Pilot - Testing of a Sensitive Instrument for Use with Diverse Study Populations
Bristol-Myers Squibb Outcomes Research

Study Comparing Comprehensive Clinic-Based Care to Comprehensive Clinic-Based Enhanced by Community/Home Care as Strategies to Improve Adherence to HIV Medications
HRSA/Special Projects of National Significance

Health Care Financing

Island Health Insurance Plan - Dukes County (Martha's Vineyard), Massachusetts
Dukes County Health Council and Island Health Plan

Health Logistics

South Africa Logistics Management Technical Assistance
USAID

Health Service Delivery

Mozambique Health Service Delivery and Support Project
USAID

Information Systems

Comprehensive Information Systems Review, New York City
Synergy Health Systems

Managed Care

Managed Care and Public Health Collaboration, New England
Brandeis University

Refugee Health

Reproductive Health for Refugees: NGO Training
Gates Foundation

RH/Literacy Project for refugees from Sierra Leone and Guinea In collaboration with American Refugee Committee and World Education
Kaufman Foundation

Reproductive Health

Training for State Family Planning Commission, Republic of China
UNFPA

Substance Abuse

Enhanced Treatment Outcomes and Performance Pilot Studies (TOPPS II)
Massachusetts DPH/BSAS

Substance Abuse and HIV and AIDS

Integrated Substance Abuse and HIV and AIDS Prevention in Minority Communities
SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)

Women's Health

Needs assessment on Family Planning Services among Native Americans
OFP/OPA, Region VIII

Parenting IS Prevention
SAMHSA/CSAP

Prenatal Smoking Cessation Training Project, New England and Rocky Mountain Region
CDC

2000

Environmental Health

Medical Communities Project: Environmental Health Intake and Community Mapping
EPA

HIV and AIDS

New Hampshire HIV Needs Assessment
New Hampshire DHHS STD/HIV Program

HIV and AIDS and Women's Health

HIV Prevention Integration in Reproductive Health Settings
CDC Division of Reproductive Health

Health Logistics

The Contraceptive Forecasting Handbook for Family Planning and HIV and AIDS Prevention Programs
JSI/DELIVER publication
USAID

Public Health

Disaster Management, Dominican Republic
USAID

Evaluation of Hepatitis C Initiatives
Massachusetts DPH

Region VIII Viral Hepatitis Training Project
CDC Division of Hepatitis

Refugee Health

Family Planning Continuation Study 2000 in Pakistan
Mellon Foundation

Women's Health

Safe Motherhood Strategies: A Review of the Evidence JSI/MotherCare publication
USAID

Women's Health and Environmental Health

Perchlorethylene Cape Exposure and Its Impact on Reproductive Outcomes
Boston University School of Public Health

2001

Community Health

Community Access Project (CAP) Staff Support
HRSA/Lighthouse Health Access Alliance, Massachusetts

HIV and AIDS

Rhode Island HIV Prevention Evaluation Project
Rhode Island DOH/Office of HIV and AIDS

Health Care Financing

Health Care Purchasing Among California's Largest Private and Public Employers
California HealthCare Foundation

State Health Care Purchasing Practices
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health Logistics

Logistics Management Services for HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Project, Kenya
DfID

Public Health

Hepatitis C Infection in Community Health Centers: Epidemiology and Disease Burden
Massachusetts DPH/Communicable Disease Division

Refugee Health

RHR Assessment in Angola
UNFPA

Women's Health

Region VIII Quality Indicators Project
OPA & OFP

Social Marketing Toolkit for Region VIII Title X Family Planning Clinics
DHHS/OPA & OFP

2002

JSI Fundraising Systems, Inc. sold

Adolescent Health

Project H: Working with Young Men, Brazil
Once Upon a Boy, video
IPPF/Western Hemisphere Region and World Health Organization

HIV and AIDS

Assessing HIV Care Quality and Measuring Clinical Outcomes in Clinics
Receiving Title I Care Act Funding
Region I Women's Health Work Group
Boston Public Health Commission

Global Fund Procurement Supply Management Assessment, Haiti
Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria

MTCT-Plus Data Management Center
(subcontractor to Columbia University)
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Health Care Financing

Health Care at the Crossroads: Manufacturers Agenda for Lower Costs and Higher Quality
The Manufacturing Institute

Health Logistics

Health Sector Support in Contraceptive Logistics, Mozambique
USAID

Logistics Management Support & Training on Drugs and Supplies for the MOH
World Bank

Health Service Delivery

Uganda Integrated Social Services Project (Uphold)
USAID

Information Services

Colorado Community Health Network GIS Project
Colorado Community Health Network

Public Health

Analysis of Delaware's Safety Net System
Delaware Health Care Commission

Positive Aging Resource Center
SAMHSA

Refugee Health

Gender-Based Violence: Emerging Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations
Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium

Substance Abuse

Try-To-STOP Tobacco Resource Center of Rhode Island & New Hampshire
Rhode Island and New Hampshire Departments of Health