University Research Co. LLC (URC) participated in Guatemala’s Data-To-Action workshop in August / September. Held in Guatemala City, facilitated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosted by the International Organization for Migration, the workshop presented results from the…
The 2022 Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum in Mexico made clear that there is a strong evidence base showing violence as a global public health and human rights issue. Further, we are no longer in the infancy stages of interventions that…
The 2022 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) in Bogota, Colombia, sparked discussions about implementation science’s role in streamlined and equitable health systems. A panelist in an organized session on people-centered health systems, Dr. Rochelle Burgess of the Institute for Global…
USAID’s Inclusive Development Hub requested the Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) Project’s engagement with the Moldova Mission to support the Government’s National Child Protection Program (NCPP) and its Action Plan. In June 2022, the Government of Moldova launched a new…
This report presents the highlights of the third webinar in this series, Strengthening Maternal Mental Health in Special Populations: Implementation Challenges and Opportunities, which featured a diverse stakeholder discussion on strategies and opportunities to advance maternal mental health care and psychosocial support for vulnerable…
The Nurturing Families Programme is a comprehensive, family- based intervention that supports vulnerable families to function better, feel stronger, and ultimately offer a nurturing environment for children. The intervention was piloted by War Child Holland and the Collateral Repair Project in 12…
In 2021, Action contre la Faim (ACF) and HIAS separately implemented mental health and psychosocial support interventions for trauma-exposed populations in Bangladesh and Panamá/Ecuador, respectively. Both teams have completed the implementation and data collection phases of their study and are moving forward…
New data-to-action partners recently initiated a set of activities to support government-led efforts to end violence against children in Kenya and Namibia: LVCT Health and World Vision Kenya in Kenya, and Project Hope Namibia (PHN) and LifeLine/ChildLine (LLCL) in Namibia. These organizations…
The Implementation Science Collaborative (ISC) brings together a diverse set of stakeholders to inform implementation science agendas and implement evidence-to-use activities. The result is a more holistic understanding of the problems that need to be addressed, and the evidence generated and synthesized is more…
People are living longer and staying healthier not only due to seismic changes in the creation of health interventions, such as the introduction of a new vaccine or the scale-up of discrete health interventions like Vitamin A, but equally because of incremental…
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