Digital health & the tools you may not be using, but should!
Digital health can play a powerful role to help us achieve our global health goals. The field has matured considerably in the last few years... Read More
SQUAD goals: Assess large spatial datasets in minutes – not weeks
Accurate spatial data is a key component of health information systems. Adequately addressing many global health problems—for example, providing HIV services where they are needed... Read More
Using Data to Strengthen Immunization: Thinking Outside the Box
The use of high-quality routine immunization (RI) data is critical to service providers, managers, and partners aiming to improve immunization coverage. USAID’s Maternal and Child... Read More
Advocating for the Evidence-Based Policies: It Takes More Than a Slogan
Advocacy campaigns for global health can often be reduced to an easily understood—and ambitious—slogan and hashtag. #HealthForAll. #HealthWorkersCount. #EndPolioNow. But when it comes to helping... Read More
Simple Rules for Strengthening Systems to Deliver Better Quality Healthcare
The USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) project is the USAID Office of Health System’s flagship for improving healthcare quality across all... Read More
Creating a Health Information Culture: Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement
Monitoring and managing a health system effectively require data from health facilities and communities. As health ministries and organizations work toward the Sustainable Development Goals... Read More
How to Cost Health Services Regularly and Why That’s Useful
Have you ever wondered how to calculate the cost of health services? What cost elements are important and why is cost per service useful? How... Read More
Digital Tools to Revolutionize Health Worker Capacity-Building: The Northern Ghana Nutrition Experience
Health workers (HW) are an essential point of care within the health system, yet they often receive little guidance on how to improve their service... Read More
Stepping Up Systems to Reach Every Child in Urban Slums
Health systems lag behind rapid urbanization and have not provided needed essential infrastructure and systems to provide basic social and healthcare services. Urban poor are... Read More
A Total Market Approach for UHC: Strategic Engagement of the Private Sector for Global Health Goals
Increasingly, donors and governments recognize the importance of working with the private sector to reach goals related to universal health coverage. Yet, such engagement is... Read More