JSI’s Universal Immunization through Improving Family Health Services (UI-FHS) project in Ethiopia, published in the journal Global Health: Science and Practice. The project used innovative...
High-quality data are essential for immunization programs. As a data-intensive public health service, immunization is an apt case study for the generation, quality, and use of data to inform...
In Ethiopia, challenges to skills-building for healthcare workers (HCWs) include a national capacity building strategy focused almost exclusively on training, combined with high rates of HCW...
JSI views community knowledge and input as a critical and often underused component of strong health care systems. To improve immunization in the challenging UI-FHS regions, JSI brought community...
From January 2017 through July 2018, the DPCP conducted implementation research using quantitative and qualitative methods in Central and Luapula provinces in Zambia. The country was selected to...
Immunization is at the very core of health programs around the world yet its performance is commonly measured by just a single number, namely coverage with a third dose of a vaccine that protects...
This document provides a summary of MCSP/JSI’s experience in the adaptation of the regional Reaching Every District (RED) guideline to country-specific contexts in order to inform other countries...
Due to inefficient distribution practices, the MoH conducted a network optimization analysis and identified the lowest-cost supply chain network for distribution from regional hubs to districts...
The Universal Immunization through Improving Family Health Services (UI-FHS) project works to improve the routine immunization system in over 100 woredas (districts) in six regions of Ethiopia. The...
Over the last decade, investments made by the Government of Tanzania (GOT) through the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children (MOHCDGEC), United States Agency for...
Anne LaFond, Natasha Kanagat, Robert Steinglass, Rebecca Fields, Jenny Sequeira, Sangeeta Mookherji
There is limited understanding of why routine immunization (RI) coverage improves in some settings in Africa and not in others. Using a grounded theory approach, we conducted in-depth case studies to...
This document reports a success story that discusses implementation of the tool in India, Madagascar, and Zanzibar and summarizes how each country benefited from its use.