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February 3, 2012
After the Earthquake: Rebuilding In Haiti Through Maternal and Child Health

Rebecca Shore
K4Health, JHU∙CCP | Comm. Specialist

Two years ago, Haiti was hit with a massive earthquake. Even before this disaster, Haiti’s health system could not meet the needs of its nearly 10 million people. While some things had been improving (recent years had seen a decrease in HIV infection rates, more vaccinations, and improvements in the lives of children under 5), roughly 40% of the population had no access to basic health care. The widespread devastation of the earthquake was a severe blow to this already challenged system.

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January 26, 2012
Mobile Data Collection: A Leapfrog Technology for Health Improvement

Stephen Goldstein
K4Health, JHU∙CCP | Senior Consultant

“For too long, the world’s information (and the world’s tools for collecting and understanding and using that information) was limited to the richer countries. Now the world has changed so much that a tool created in Kenya can benefit gorillas in Uganda, mothers in Central America, school children in Zambia, and a hospital in Washington DC. And all because of these common miracles—the Internet and the mobile phone that are binding us together as never before.” ~ Joel Selanikio, “Mobile Phones and the Power of Data Collection”

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January 19, 2012
Mapping High Impact Practices in Family Planning

Matthew Phelps
USAID | Program Assistant
When programming family planning interventions, why re-invent the wheel? It’s frustrating when efforts overlap and resources are wasted. Learning from the success and failures of others is critical to progress; however, it can be difficult with so many programs and no mechanism to track where and what High Impact Practices (HIPs) in family planning are being implemented worldwide. What if a program in Ghana is interested in expanding a community health worker intervention and wants some tips for implementation from other countries nearby? Where would program staff go to find that information?

Now, with the support of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project, Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative, and others, USAID has developed an online interactive map showing who, what, when, where, and how HIPs are being implemented in the field. This map will allow users—like our colleagues in Ghana—to quickly see what type of programs are being implemented (or have been implemented) in their region. The map will facilitate South-to-South learning and exchanges.

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January 19, 2012
New Momentum for Frontline Health Workers

Piers Bocock
K4Health, JHU∙CCP | Project Director
“The face of a country's health system.”
“The best investment for improved health.”
“The unsung heroes of public health.”

These were just a few of the phrases used at a special event last week to describe those who struggle every day to meet the vast majority of health issues around the world: frontline health workers. The forum for these accolades was the launch of the new Frontline Health Worker Coalition on January 11 at the Kaiser Family Foundation Conference Center in Washington, DC. A standing-room-only crowd listened to a panel discussion and learned more about the new initiative.

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January 17, 2012
Six Years of Learning: Online Discussion Forum Monitoring & Evaluation

Kavitha Nallathambi
K4Health, JHU∙CCP | Comm Specialist
In recent years, online discussion forums have gained importance in sharing public health information among policy makers and practitioners in both developed and developing countries. Since 2005, the World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/RHR) and the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project have supported more than 50 virtual discussion forums on the Implementing Best Practices Knowledge Gateway (IBP KG).
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The Knowledge for Health Project (K4Health) is implemented by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs, in partnership with FHI 360 and Management Sciences for Health. The views reflected in this blog are those of the individual contributors; are not official U.S. Government information; and do not necessarily represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government, The Johns Hopkins University, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Center for Communication Programs, or the K4Health Project as an entity.