Cross-Cutting Topics
- Formative Research to Inform Market-Based Interventions to Increase Egg Purchase and Consumption in Tigray, Ethiopia
We aimed to understand and address barriers and enablers related to market access, purchase, and consumption of animal source foods by children aged 6–23 months and to inform subsequent market-based interventions.
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Application of New Diagnostic Devices for Urinary Schistosomiasis in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Q-Methodology Approach
New diagnostic devices for schistosomiasis should be designed to function best within the local endemic health care context and support stakeholders at various levels of the health care system in performing the tasks to help control and eventually eliminate schistosomiasis.
- Optimizing the Health Management Information System in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implementation Insights and Key Learnings
The Uttar Pradesh Health Management Information System has allowed managers across all levels of the state’s health system to access routinely collected data through a comprehensive online portal, contributing to a culture of information use.
- TraumaLink: A Community-Based First-Responder System for Traffic Injury Victims in Bangladesh
A community-based network of trained volunteer layperson first responders in Bangladesh provided rapid and reliable on-scene trauma care to traffic injury victims, free of charge.
- Development of a Modular and Equitable Surgical Simulator
Current trends in surgical simulation favor high-fidelity, costly models that are often limited to high-income academic centers. The GlobalSurgBox overcomes many of the barriers to routine implementation and use of surgical simulators in low-income countries by circumventing the often prohibitive financial, time, and personnel investments required of current simulation prototypes.
- “Testing Can Be Done Anywhere”: A Qualitative Assessment of Targeted Community-Based Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV in Lusaka, Zambia
Community-based point-of-care testing is an acceptable, appropriate, and feasible strategy for improving access to HIV diagnostic services for high-risk HIV-exposed infants.
- Applying the iDARE Methodology in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania to Improve Health Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The iDARE methodology was implemented in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic to help build the capacity of local governments, facilities, and communities to identify, design, and implement local solutions to health problems. These solutions can be adapted and applied in any context with low-cost implications.
- Improving Community Health Worker Compensation: A Case Study From India Using Quantitative Projection Modeling and Incentive Design Principles
We quantitatively assess the design and performance of the accredited social health activist (ASHA) incentive structure and suggest recommendations that could potentially drive ASHA effectiveness and support the achievement of health outcomes.
- Matching Intent With Intensity: Implementation Research on the Intensity of Health and Nutrition Programs With Women's Self-Help Groups in India
Adding health interventions to women's groups primarily formed for financial purposes, such as self-help groups, is a widely used strategy to reach low-income women. An analysis of implementation intensity highlights the importance of ensuring that women's groups have sufficient time and population coverage to address health issues.
- Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications
Community health workers have long played a critical role in preventing, detecting, and responding to pandemics across the globe. To expand, improve, and institutionalize these services, changes in the approach to bi/multilateral aid and private philanthropic investments in low- and middle-income countries are required.