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Oct 14, 2020
Digital Implementation Investment Guide
PATH, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Population Fund, UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction
Applications, DHIS2, eHealth, eHealth architecture, eHealth Plan, Hardware, Health Data Dictionary, Immunization Registry, Monitoring & Evaluation, People, Policies, Practices, Products, Supportive Supervision, Telecommunications, Training, Unicef, USAID, WHO
The Digital Implementation Investment Guide (DIIG) aims to help governments and technical partners plan a digital health implementation that focuses on one or more health programs to support national health system goals. The Guide is designed to walk users of the document step-by-step through planning, costing and implementing digital health interventions within a digital health enterprise. This consists of selecting digital health interventions that are aligned with identified health needs, appropriate to a specific country context and integrated with existing technologies and the broader digital architecture. Users of the Guide will learn from diverse experiences deploying digital health technologies over the past decade and will be guided through a systematic approach to designing, costing and implementing meaningful digital health interventions that are part of a digital health enterprise. The DIIG was developed by PATH, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations Population Fund, among other partners.
Sep 16, 2016
Cracking the Nut – Health: Lessons from the 2016 Conference
The role of communities in building resilient health systems is complex and ever evolving. While two days is certainly not enough time to address all of the issues around communities and resiliency, Cracking the Nut Health was a great start. In the past month and a half, we hope that participants have taken the time to muse over the many discussions at this learning event, and started finding opportunities to incorporate these ideas into ongoing work.Aug 31, 2016
Making Innovation Matter: Conference Report From The Innovation Effect
More than 150 leading global health and development thinkers convened on June 15, 2016, for The Innovation Effect: Powering Disruptive Global Health Solutions in Washington, DC. This conference report provides an overview of the insights shared when attendees explored what happens when unique partnerships, disruptive technologies, transformed systems, and data-driven insights combine in often unexpected ways to create dramatic improvements in the health and well-being of people around the world.Jul 14, 2016
USAID Launches Innovative Tool to Benchmark Health Systems
Applications, EPI Plan, Software, USAID
Global
Feb 10, 2016
BLN Discussion Meeting Report & Presentations, 7-11 December 2015
eLMIS, Immunization Registry, Monitoring & Evaluation, Packaging, Peer Learning, People, Policies, Software, USAID
Global
Aug 31, 2015
Diagnosing Supply Chain Maturity: Supply Chain Compass Tool Helps Three Countries
An integrated supply chain is cost-effective, responsive, and reliable, and helps reduce stockouts. An integrated supply chain links all the actors involved in managing health products into one cohesive supply chain management organization. Countries typically move through an evolution process to achieve an integrated public health supply chain. While every country is different, the path to integration usually evolves, over time, through three sequential phases: (1) the ad hoc phase, where stakeholders have little common understanding of what the supply chain looks like; (2) the organized phase, where roles and procedures for basic logistics functions are clarified and sufficient financial and human resources are mobilized; and (3) the integrated phase, where people, functions, levels, and entities in the supply chain are linked and managed through an interconnected supply chain organizationJan 1, 2013
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT IN GLOBAL HEALTH: A PRIMER
Attention to global health by governments, policymakers, media, business leaders, and other institutions has increased markedly in recent decades. Since 2000, donor funding to address health challenges in low- and middle-income countries has grown substantially, new institutions and global goals have been developed, and a burgeoning community of stakeholders has emerged around global health.Nov 8, 2012
mHealth Compendium
This paper was produced by the African Strategies for Health (ASH) project in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development’s Africa Bureau (USAID/AFR). Funded by USAID/AFR, the overall objective of ASH is to contribute to improving the health status of populations across Africa through identification of and advocacy for best practices, enhancing technical capacity, and engaging African regional institutions to address health issues in a sustainable manner. ASH provides information on trends and developments across the continent to USAID and other development partners to enhance decision making regarding investments in health.Jun 11, 2012
A systematic review of Demographic and Health Surveys: data availability and utilization for research
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project, funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with support from other donors and host countries, has conducted over 230 nationally representative and internationally comparable household surveys in more than 80 countries since its inception in 1984. USAID has invested approximately 380 million United States dollars (US$) in the project, and each dollar has leveraged approximately US$ 0.33 in donor and host-country contributions. The first three of the DHS’s six phases were implemented between 1984 and 1997. Thereafter the project was folded into a family of USAID monitoring and evaluation projects and was renamed MEASURE DHS.1Feb 1, 2006
Coverage Confusion! Trying to Make Sense of It
Vaccination coverage rates are the most commonly used indicators of immunization program performance. Have you ever encountered different vaccination coverage estimates for the same country? In this issue of Snap Shots, we explain where these different coverage estimates come from and how they should and should not be used. We also point you to other references that we hope will help to clear up the coverage confusion.Jump in. Expand your knowledge.
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