JSI pleased to introduce Strong Supply Chains Save Lives, a newsletter about the latest innovations, projects, and ideas from JSI's Center for Health Logistics.
COVID-19 has exacerbated and laid bare long-standing challenges in health systems and supply chains that national governments and the global community are grappling with as they shift their focus to reinvigorating existing health programs and preparing for future pandemics. We, as supply chain practitioners, have to do the same and will have to exe...
Rebuilding Yemen’s Health System, One Facility at a TimeIn Yemen, with only half of all health facilities fully functioning due to the ongoing conflict, there are large gaps in technical knowledge of child health practices. USAID recently featured our successful approach to improving child health services at health facilities, even during times of ...
Prevention is HopeShannon Spurlock, RIPRC director, reflects on the project's last 10 years, having provided more than 2,000 one-on-one technical assistance sessions and 100 group training sessions on various topics. Read moreOriginal link
View this email in your browserWelcome to the new Immunization @JSI, a quarterly newsletter focused on the global immunization work happening at JSI. For several decades, vaccines have helped to prevent diseases and keep populations healthy. JSI is committed to assisting countries to build equitable and strong health systems that support people’s w...
National TB programs must assess the quality and accessibility of their TB services, identify gaps in coverage, and ensure patients receive the care they deserve. This toolkit, developed by the TB DIAH project and used in several different countries, provides detailed information and step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct Quality of Tuberculosis...
Break the Bias. JSI improves family planning services, supply chains, and the capacity of local leaders to help women access the health services they need. We are committed to challenging gender inequities and ensuring that women, children, and communities have access to health care regardless of their circumstances. #IWD2022Original link
#NBHAAD is a day to discuss the effects of HIV on Black communities. JSI endorsed the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Resolution of 2022, circulated by Representative Barbara Lee, which acknowledges that while progress has been made, Black communities are disproportionately affected by HIV, and efforts to mitigate HIV must address stigma, dis...
Working towards health equity and strengthening health care systems, for better health outcomes for all.View this email in your browser Pandemic Perspectives: What’s Next?COVID-19 has highlighted the challenges within the U.S. health care system and created a demand for rapid innovation. Our ongoing Pandemic Perspectives series loo...
As the co-directors of the Center for HIV & Infectious Diseases, we are committed to working across JSI and World Education to heed World AIDS Day calls to action from the White House and UNAIDS, which firmly state that we will not end the epidemic if we do not end health inequities and inequalities and ensure that people with HIV and who exper...
Related News & StoriesFive Ways to Improve HIV Index Testing in Highly Saturated EnvironmentsHIV index testing in highly saturated environments can be extremely challenging, even more so where intimate partner violence levels are high. JSI staff working on the USAID Meeting Targets and Maintaining HIV Epidemic Control (EpiC) Project in Johannes...
This year at APHA, thousands of public health professionals will gather under the theme of strengthening social connectedness. COVID-19 has not only tested our connectedness; it has also tested the strength of health care systems all over the world.Collectively, governments and health care and community organizations continue to develop solutions t...
Strong supply chains are the backbone of health systems and are essential to positive health outcomes. We work at the intersection of supply and demand in more than 28 countries to bolster supply chain, service delivery, and program performance. Our support spans HIV, reproductive health, malaria, maternal health, pandemic response, and neglected t...
September 18 marked National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day in the US, a day to call attention to the growing number of people living long and full lives with HIV and to the aging-related challenges of HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care.Test your knowledge: what percent of people in the United States with diagnosed HIV are 50 years of a...
*Please note you are receiving this inaugural edition of the Immunization in Focus quarterly bulletin because you are a JSI subscriber. Immunization in Focus is produced by USAID’s MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project, led by JSI Research & Training Institute. While originally written for USAID missions and projects, ...
Today, the JSI and World Education Boards of Directors announced the appointment of Margaret Crotty as their next president and chief executive officer. She will succeed Joel H. Lamstein, who has served as president and CEO since he founded John Snow, Inc. with Bert Hirschhorn in 1978. Lamstein has also served as World Education’s president since ...
The pandemic has compromised health care systems—including sexual and reproductive health. Supply chains are disrupted, and the health care workforce has been overwhelmed by the infectious disease. COVID-19 has also exposed and exacerbated inequities, including gender-based violence. Furthermore, meeting the sexual and reproductive health and right...
At JSI, developing client-centric health supply chain solutions that increase access to high-quality, affordable medicines is our mission and passion. Data and digitization are core to serving clients and supply chain transformation. And as this last year has reminded us, data about client demand as well as supply are essential for a resilient supp...
Thursday, April 15, 12 pm ETHITEQ Highlights webinar: Measuring Telehealth Success: You Can't Achieve it if You Can't Measure ItREGISTER In this presentation, Christian Milaster of Ingenium Digital Health Advisors will lead attendees through a series of pragmatic concepts on how to set an organization’s telehealth success targets, what and how to m...
The clock is indeed ticking on our race to end tuberculosis (TB). COVID-19 has challenged TB programs in countless ways, and JSI staff working on TB and health projects have responded with resilience and flexibility. In addition to projects with integrated TB activities, JSI supports USAID’s investments under the Global TB Accelerator to End TB, su...
PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access brings together expertise across every stage of the long and complex process of vaccine research, development, and delivery to make lifesaving vaccines widely available to children and communities across the world.
MOMENTUM increases the capacity of partner institutions and local organizations to deliver quality, evidence-based maternal, newborn, and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care in USAID partner countries.
The Global NITAG Network (GNN) is a global platform that helps foster collaborations, sharing of experiences and knowledge exchange among NITAGs across all regions. The GNN monthly updates include the latest recommendations issued by NITAGs as well as policy guidance from SAGE.
Yellow fever is not a new disease, but one that continues to affect countries in Africa and the Americas. Recent urban outbreaks in 2016 demonstrated that despite the advances in immunization activities, challenges remain in ending epidemics. A new strategy was developed to address these needs: Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics (EYE).
The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) from WHO serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including emerging or re-emerging infections.
This CDC Newsletter, published monthly, is provided to national health care provider and consumer groups for distribution to their members and constituencies.
Led by PATH and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the BID Initiative is grounded in the belief that better data, plus better decisions, will lead to better health outcomes. It was designed in partnership with countries to enhance overall health service delivery through improved data collection, quality, and use.
PtD is the global leader in human resources (HR) for supply chain management (SCM). It does this by advocating for a systematic approach to HR for SCM and for interventions that improve the demand and supply of qualified health supply chain professionals.
News archive from the International Association of Public Health Logisticians, established in 2007 to promote the professionalization of the field of public health logistics through education and information sharing.
JSI pleased to introduce Strong Supply Chains Save Lives, a newsletter about the latest innovations, projects, and ideas from JSI's Center for Health Logistics.