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...
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,...
Using geospatial-based composite score to identify and map missed communities. Vaccines have reduced disease burden and death in children; still, inequality in coverage continues to persist globally. Although Cameroon has made significant progress in vaccination since...
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...
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....
To mark Earth Day 2022, CHAI announces its first set of investments in carbon offsets CHAI has purchased its first set of carbon offsets in an important step to reduce our global carbon footprint. This follows CHAI’s announcement in 2021 of the formation and our...
INTRODUCTION The quality of data on routine immunization (RI) in Nigeria has been a long-standing concern for the government and its partners. In 2017, the RI module of the District Health Information System (DHIS2)—an open-source, web-based platform—was rolled out in...
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI. Please tell us a bit about your background and what brought you to CHAI. I studied dental medicine at Universitas Indonesia and during my undergraduate years, I...
For immediate release, April 14, 2022 — The Board of The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil Buddy Shah as Chief Executive Officer of CHAI, succeeding interim co-CEOs Joy Phumaphi and Ann Veneman, who will remain...
BACKGROUND Niger is one of the poorest performing states in routine immunization (RI) in Nigeria. Only 39 percent of eligible children in Niger have received the Pentavalent 3 vaccine, translating to over 150,000 unimmunized children in 2020[1]. The high-cost of...
