Team Member Spotlight: Joseph Hakili
Aug 24, 2015
Posted in General
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Joseph Hakili, Implementation Specialist, Tanzania.
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Betting on Better Data
Aug 18, 2015
Posted in People, Policies & Practices, Products
When you mention innovation, most people immediately think of the latest app that tracks daily life with pinpoint precision, or costly new technologies like Google Glass that just a decade ago would have been considered impossible.
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Team Member Spotlight: Hallie Goertz
Aug 17, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more Hallie Goertz, Packaging & Training Lead in Seattle.
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Health Workers Meet the BID Initiative
Aug 14, 2015
Posted in Policies & Practices, Practices, Products
The BID Initiative is rolling out interventions to 253 health facilities in the Arusha region over the course of this year and into early 2016. We have successfully completed the first facility visits in the Arusha City Council district and are now beginning in Meru district. We often get questions on what goes into our site visits and how we practically begin rolling out a comprehensive initiative of this scale.
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Team Member Spotlight: Emmanuel Samalumo
Aug 10, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Emmanuel Samalumo, Office Coordinator/Sr. Driver in Zambia.
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Intervention Spotlight: Creating a Data-Use Culture
Jul 29, 2015
Posted in People, Policies & Practices
The BID Initiative is not a technology or IT project. It’s based on the premise that we must take a holistic approach to the immunization data quality and use challenges countries face through a collection of multiple interventions. The products we are implementing, such as the national electronic immunization registry, will not be successful without additional activities that simplify data flows and reporting, make data accessible across multiple levels of the health system, and cultivate a culture of data use.
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Team Member Spotlight: Kalenga Kakompe
Jul 27, 2015
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The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Kalenga Kakompe, M&E Lead in Zambia.
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BID Rolls Out in Arusha
Jul 22, 2015
Posted in People, Policies & Practices, Practices, Products
At the end of last month, the BID Initiative officially launched interventions in Arusha, our pilot region in Tanzania! We began with a handful of facilities to user test the new national electronic immunization system and incorporated feedback before expanding to additional facilities. This is a culmination of major efforts in establishing partnerships, identifying the most pressing immunization data-related challenges and fine-tuning interventions to solve them.
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Innovations in Vaccines and Data to Transform Health by 2030
Jul 16, 2015
Posted in General, Practices, Products
Innovation Countdown 2030 is reimagining what’s possible in global health. Led by PATH, the initiative is identifying and showcasing technologies and interventions with great promise to accelerate progress toward solving the world’s most urgent health issues.
Read MoreRFP for Electronic Immunization Registry Development in Zambia
Jul 14, 2015
Posted in Products
We are pleased to announce the release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Better Immunization Data (BID) Electronic Immunization Registry Development in Zambia.
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