by Scott Miller | Jul 14, 2022
Before Kano State used the responsive feedback mechanism to improve the quality of antenatal care services in health facilities, few pregnant women knew of and used the services. Less than 20 percent of pregnant women in Kano State, Nigeria deliver their babies at a...
by Scott Miller | May 5, 2022
During this International Day of the Midwife, we celebrate all those working to save the lives of women and babies by supporting safer pregnancies and deliveries— workers such as Paul Bwalya, a midwife and trained mentor working in Zambia’s Northern Province. Paul is...
by Scott Miller | May 3, 2022
Using modeling and analyses to inform targeted investments in human resources for health. A strong and well-distributed health workforce is essential to providing quality health services. However, too often, the health workforce is often insufficient to meet the need,...
by Scott Miller | Apr 26, 2022
BACKGROUND Data quality and use play a fundamental role in the success or failure of an immunization program.[1] Unavailability of quality data and poor use of data can undermine the government’s and stakeholders’ decision making and action for improvement in the...
by Scott Miller | Apr 25, 2022
In the late 2000s, researchers working in villages along the border of Thailand and Cambodia discovered that circulating strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for most malaria deaths, were evolving resistance to artemisinin-based drugs....
