Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor.
mNutrition is a global initiative supported by DFID, organised by GSMA, and implemented by in-country Mobile Network Operators to use mobile technology to raise the health and nutritional status of children and adults in the developing world.
mNutrition is a global initiative supported by DFID, organised by GSMA, and implemented by in-country Mobile Network Operators to use mobile technology to raise the health and nutritional status of children and adults in the developing world.
In Tanzania, mNutrition is implemented through the ‘Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby’ (HPHB) SMS (text messaging) programme, which is part of the Wazazi Nipendeni mHealth platform (WN). The programme is run by the mHealth Tanzania public-private partnership, which was initiated in 2012 by...
15 February 2019
This short report summarises and integrates the key findings from the initial data collection round of each evaluation component carried out between October 2016 and January 2017. We use the mNutrition theory of change (ToC) to examine the assumptions about causal links between outcomes and...
15 February 2019
Global Health Action 9.1
In this article, we discuss two capacity-building projects, the African/Asian Regional Capacity Development (ARCADE) in Health Systems and Services Research (HSSR) and Research on Social Determinants of Health (RSDH), implemented from 2011 to 2015.
20 January 2017
The Health and Nutrition Cluster pursues programmes of research and policy engagement on health systems, nutrition and understandings of zoonotic diseases. The focus is on bringing a critical social science perspective to how people, especially the poor, address their health and...
A new film by Health Systems Global and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research shows the vital role health policy and systems research (HPSR) plays in building stronger and more equitable health systems around the world.
9 May 2017
This session will explore the skills required to conduct implementation research on interventions in complex health systems.
IDS is excited to offer a FREE, online blended learning course on Mhealth, Health Systems and Development. The 5 week course, convened by Linda Waldman will introduce the student to the concept of mhealth and explore some of the wider debates about the implications of the increasing use of...