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Taking a human-centered design approach, the Vx Data Insights project worked to uncover and prioritize pain-points and challenges that healthcare workers and managers encounter in delivering immunization services and monitoring progress. A joint effort between Sonder Collective and John Snow Inc., the project, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was conducted in Kenya, DRC, and…
Washington County is a federally designated mental health shortage area with the highest suicide rate and binge drinking rates (across all age groups) in Rhode Island. Local individuals presenting with problems of depression/anxiety, suicidal ideation, drug overdose, alcohol intoxication, and bipolar disorder flood the local hospital emergency departments which offer no onsite psychiatric services. Healthy…
In support of South Africa’s national HIV epidemic control strategy, JSI provided technical assistance to USAID implementing partners to strengthen index testing and conducting targeted community case finding services in the City of Johannesburg. In addition, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, JSI assisted to transition of select HIV services from health facilities to communities, an initiative of…
The HRSA Center for Excellence Behavioral Health Technical Assistance (COE for BHTA) was a centralized training and technical assistance center to support HRSA-funded grantees to integrate substance use and mental health (behavioral health) services in primary care settings. Integrated behavioral health and primary care services lead to better health outcomes for people with multiple health care…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Liberia recognizes the importance of quality data for program planning, monitoring, and evaluation, and acknowledges the challenges of data availability, quality, and use across all program areas. With that in mind, the MOH is setting up a taskforce to develop a data improvement plan (DIP) to assure a more…
Success in malaria control must build on progress made over the past decade while considering new challenges. New approaches and more cost-effective interventions are needed—along with tools and guidance to leverage the evidence of what is working. To reduce malaria cases and deaths, reliable surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation (SME) systems depend upon data being of…
The Human-Centered Design (HCD) Exchange is a community of implementers, funders, designers, and evaluators committed to advancing learning and practice related to the integration of human-centered design and adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in low-resource settings. The HCDExchange was first launched in 2018. JSI has partnered with the Kenya-based inSupply and the community of practice…
JSI, in partnership with the Georgia Health Policy Center, is conducting a rapid investigation to inform the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Systems for Health initiative. The majority of multi-sector health initiatives identify a set of four principles – or core components – that are similar to what is described in the Aligning for Health…
JSI has been supporting the immunization program in Mozambique for several years, most directly implementing Reaching Every District and Reaching Every Community (RED/REC) in three priority provinces in Mozambique (Sofala, Manica and Nampula) over the past year with Gavi PEF support, and in two provinces (Nampula and Sofala) for the prior three years as part of…
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's (MDPH) Bureau of Community Health and Prevention has selected JSI to provide evaluation support for two CDC grants (1815: Improving the Health of Americans Through Prevention and Management of Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke and 1817: Innovative State and Local Public Health Strategies to Prevent and Manage Diabetes, Heart Disease, and…
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