We work to help our clients achieve results that improve health systems, services, and, ultimately, people’s lives.
During the summer and fall of 2020, JSI partnered with East Boston Neighborhood Health Center to co-create a vaping prevention campaign designed by East Boston youth for their peers. JSI facilitated three two-hour co-design workshops with East Boston youth to review the core components of advertising campaigns, responsible digital citizenship, and creative approaches to public…
The Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) project, funded by a cooperative agreement awarded to NASTAD by the Health Resources and Services Admonistration HIV/AIDS Bureau, is responsible for delivering technical assistance to health departments funded under HRSA-20-078, "Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America – Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B." The assistance is intened…
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience is a global project designed to strengthen quality maternal, newborn, and child health, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health (MNCH/FP/RH) care and service delivery in fragile settings. While considerable progress has been made in reducing maternal and child mortality globally, achievements have been uneven and much of the remaining preventable maternal and…
The Country Health Information Systems and Data Use (CHISU) project will serve as one of the USAID Bureau for Global Health, Office of Health Systems’ flagship data and information system projects. The project will strengthen host country capacity and leadership to manage and use high quality health information systems to improve evidence-based decision-making. CHISU will…
We will support the assessment, development, and updates of Medical, Dental, and Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) for Massachusetts. JSI continues to build upon work initially done which supports the development of a state-wide map of access related data using GIS technology and claims to assess needs throughout the…
JSI will engage the Vermont Foodbank leadership and staff in a participatory process to inform development of a strategic evaluation plan. The plan will define priority outcomes and measures for the Vermont Foodbank. It will serve as a roadmap to guide the organization's future evaluation initiatives and inform planning and action, demonstrate effectiveness and achievements, assess…
The EpiC Tanzania Police and Prisons Project promoted easier access to lifesaving HIV and tuberculosis treatment for 55 police and prison facilities and their nearby communities. The project worked in 22 regions in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar. The project promoted behavioral risk reduction, positive social norms, and the use of biomedical prevention for the uniformed forces population. The…
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…
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