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- Institutionalizing Innovation: From Pilot to Scale for Co-Packaged Oral Rehydration Salts and Zinc—A Case Study in Zambia
A multisector partnership developed a locally contextualized and owned holistic approach to project design and implementation; this process provided a strong learning platform to take a novel yet simple lifesaving health product from trial to sustainable scale-up.
- Low-Dose Antenatal Calcium Supplementation: An Intervention Ready for Prime Time
New evidence of the effectiveness of low-dose antenatal calcium supplementation for preventing preeclampsia and preterm birth provides additional protection for pregnant women and their newborns in settings where calcium intake is low.
- Barriers to Decolonizing Global Health: Identification of Research Challenges Facing Investigators Residing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The practice of global health is plagued by power structures favoring high-income countries. Efforts to decolonize global health must consider the systemic limitations that LMIC investigators face at local, national, and international levels.
- Collaboration in a Partnership for Primary Health Care: A Case Study From Papua New Guinea
Four key factors that influence collaboration in a public-private partnership (PPP) are relationships, time, governance, and the impact of change. Incorporating these factors into PPP design and implementation in similar settings can increase coordinated action and improvements in primary health care.
- Surgical System Efficiency and Operative Productivity in Public and Private Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation
The surgical system in Ethiopia in both public and private health facilities was inefficient, requiring immediate action to improve timely access to safe surgical care.
- Achieving COVID-19 and Routine Immunization Data Systems Integration on the Electronic Management of Immunization Data System in Nigeria
The authors discuss approaches to transforming Nigeria’s COVID-19 data management system (the Electronic Management of Immunization Data (EMID) system) into an optimized platform for integrated primary health care data management.
- Leveraging the CORE Group Partners Project Polio Infrastructure to Integrate COVID-19 Vaccination and Routine Immunization in South Sudan
The article provides an adaptable model for resource-constrained settings for effectively integrating health care programs by showcasing how routine immunization can integrate with emerging disease prevention.
- COVID-19 Vaccine Collaborative Supply Planning: Is This the Next Frontier for Routine Immunization Supply Chains?
Collaborative supply planning approaches established for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out can be adapted to routine immunization for improved vaccine management.
- Integrating COVID-19 Vaccination in Primary Care Service Delivery: Insights From Implementation Research in the Philippines
The authors provide evidence of the feasibility of integrating public health interventions into primary care settings and highlight the potential of using existing primary care service delivery and financing mechanisms as entry points for integration.
- Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic Response Implementation: A Case Study of South Sudan and Sierra Leone
In South Sudan and Sierra Leone, the implementation of the COVID-19 response generated lessons that could contribute to the improvement of routine health services and preparedness for future public health emergencies.