Implementation Science and Health Systems Research

Integration of Rehabilitation-Specific Indicators in Uganda's National Health Information Management System: The ReLAB-HS team, in collaboration with WHO, is helping Uganda's Ministry of Health integrate rehabilitation-specific indicators into the District Health Information System 2. This activity aims to improve the collection, analysis, and use of data related to rehabilitation services, including monitoring facility inputs, service utilization, assistive product distribution, and health outcomes.

CDC National Public Health Institute Support: Faculty are supporting the Georgian National Center for Disease Control to strengthen the Georgian public health workforce. The work is focused on developing public health competencies, conducting competency assessment, development of public health workforce strategy, analysis of human resources for health data to support development of the public health workforce, and support in the design and development of a human resource information system.

Evaluation & updating of the WHO Global NCD Platform Online Training Course on Building and Sustaining Multistakeholder and Multisectoral Collaboration to Address NCDs & Improve Mental Health: This project is a collaboration between Department of International Health faculty and WHO to evaluate and expand an existing course on noncommunicable diseases to include service integration with maternal, newborn, and child health care and mental health. The aim of the course is to inform context-specific solutions and build national capacities in low- and middle-income countries to address NCDs through multisectoral action and service integration with mental health across the life course.

Reducing the health equity gap for marginalized communities in Chandigarh India by leveraging key digital health interventions: Faculty from the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering are working with the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, in collaboration with the Chandigarh Administration, Chandigarh India, to examine the feasibility and acceptability of implementing telemedicine through the eSanjeevani platform in two urban slums.