We work to help our clients achieve results that improve health systems, services, and, ultimately, people’s lives.
Maintaining a consistent cold chain is an essential part of providing effective immunization services. The ELMA Vaccines and Immunization Foundation engaged JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. to help expand cold chain capacity, improve immunization coverage, and support the introduction of rotavirus vaccination in Zimbabwe. The grant enabled JSI to explore a model for cold…
Strengthening Ethiopia’s Urban Health Program (SEUHP) targeted vulnerable populations and reached an estimated 2.4 million households by strengthening Ethiopia’s Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) in 49 cities/towns in seven regions over the life of the program. SEUHP assisted the GoE to improve the quality of community-level urban health services, increase demand for facility-level health services,…
Through the MEASURE Evaluation-Strategic Information for South Africa (MEval-SIFSA) project, JSI and partners built the capacity of the South African government, PEPFAR, and their implementing partners to produce information that contributes to sustainable policy, planning, and programmatic decisions. PEPFAR was scaling down its funding and activities in South Africa. To prepare, PEPFAR funded a technical…
Through the Partnership Information Management System (PIMS), JSI provided the information architecture to streamline reporting and information use for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) activities in South Africa for nearly a decade. Funded by USAID/Southern Africa, the Partnership Information Management System (PIMS) project focused on providing and maintaining decision support systems for…
Pakistan’s progress in reducing maternal and newborn child mortality has been slow. As Pakistan’s population increases by more than 3 million people every year, population growth imposes a tremendous burden on the health infrastructure and the nation’s scarce resources. As such, Pakistan was not able to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for maternal and…
While significant gains in global health have been made over the past several decades, there is still much work to be done. Family planning and reproductive health services are of particular importance. According to the World Health Organization’s Fact Sheet No. 351, 222 million women in developing countries lack access to desired family planning services….
As part of its continued support for capacity building and strengthening of the Zambia Defense Forces Medical Services (DFMS), JSI collaborated with the DFMS to develop improved health supply systems in the three branches of the military. Having developed inventory control and logistics management information systems for ARVs and HIV tests, JSI then built on…
Implemented in the districts of Oecusse, Manatuto, and Ermera, the Timor-Leste Health Improvement Project (HIP) built the capacity of primary health care providers at the district, sub-district, and community levels to improve services for women of reproductive age and children. JSI implemented HIP with Burnet Institute and Menzies School of Health Research, building upon six…
Almost half of the world's population is at risk of contracting malaria. In 2015, according to WHO’s 2016 World Malaria Report, there were 212 million malaria cases and an estimated 429,000 malaria deaths. The malaria focus area of the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT provided technical assistance to the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the…
JSI’s Universal Immunization through Improving Family Health Services (UI-FHS) project works to improve Ethiopia’s routine immunization (RI) system. The project provides support to operationalize and strengthen Ethiopia’s national RI strategy, Reaching Every District (RED), to improve the country’s availability, utilization, quality, and sustainability of immunization services. In 2011, JSI was awarded a learning grant from…
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