By: Moe Moore Back in the first decades of the 20th century, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in America. And it wasn’t even close: 280 out of every 100,000 New York City residents died from TB in 1900. My grandfather’s family lived in New York at that time and when he fell [more…]

By: Ellie Qian and Sally Safi This blog was originally published on the PMA Ethiopia website. This is the first of a series of blog posts that share “behind the scenes” insights into a survey project in Ethiopia — Performance Monitoring for Action Ethiopia (PMA Ethiopia). In this blog, we will take you from data [more…]

By: Ferdinant Sonyuy According to Etienne Wenger, who developed the concept of communities of practice, a community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals. You know that a [more…]

“Data really powers everything that we do.” – Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Executive Chairman and ex-CEO As I walked into Dane’s* office that morning, I saw a pile of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports that the pharmacovigilance (PV) center had received from health care providers and patients across the country. Dane looked at me with eyes [more…]

This headline caught my eye: India Has Plenty of Coronavirus Vaccines But Few Takers. And upon clicking on the link, the article was followed by stories of an anti-vaccine protest organized on Facebook that cut off access to a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium. And a new study reveals that COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is [more…]

By Leah Jarvis, Katey Peck, Sara Chace Dwyer, Erika Martin & Aparna Jain. This blog was originally published on the Knowledge SUCCESS website. High quality of care (QoC) in contraceptive provision is associated with greater contraceptive uptake, higher continuation of use, and improved client satisfaction. Over several decades, various frameworks and indicators to measure QoC [more…]

The controversies that COVID-19 has highlighted for us Three controversial items are addressed in this essay: social distancing interventions manifested through lockdowns, the challenge of providing access to intensive care units (ICUs) and ventilators, and finally the ethical issues related to the COVID-19 vaccine—especially how those in low resource settings can access vaccines. The priority [more…]

By Maddie Kau and Sara Flanagan This blog was originally published on the ideas42 website. Worldwide, what is more likely to kill you than 200 skydives, 1,000 scuba dives, or a diagnosed case of malaria?[1] Giving birth once.[2] Too often, giving birth is dangerous, and the most common cause of maternal mortality—postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), or [more…]

By Dr. Alison Connor, Dr. Heather Lanthorn, Nisha Hariharan, & Sarah Carson A more detailed version of this blog was originally published in IDeas, the IDinsight blog. Testing capacity has expanded dramatically in many countries since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, a number of countries have implemented highly innovative strategies: Rwanda has a [more…]