On March 15th, JSI convened a distinguished panel of guest speakers for a moderated discussion on governing and financing person-centered care (PCC). The Behavior Effect livecast series will be conducting a three-part series on PCC. The global health community is increasingly supporting PCC— demanding de-medicalization of the health system and…

Mastawal suffered a miscarriage during her third pregnancy; she didn’t know about antenatal care (ANC) and hadn’t gone to a health clinic. When she became pregnant again, a Women’s Development Army (WDA) member from the neighborhood encouraged Mastawal to attend a local clinic for ANC check-ups. When Mastawal’s contractions came…

By Jessica Posner The global HIV community is increasingly supporting person-centered care, demanding further de-medicalization of the HIV response and shifting the focus of control to the person. During last week’s International AIDS Conference, delegates openly acknowledged that traditional service delivery models will not be enough to achieve the UNAIDS…

By Lora Shimp We are all aware that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected global health, and immunization is often an indicator. Newly released data from WHO and UNICEF show significant immunization coverage reductions across most countries, and that the pandemic and health system constraints have resulted in the largest…

Who do you want to be at 60, 70, 80, 90? How will you get there? Remember when September meant the start of the school year? As a student, you weren’t sure what lay ahead, but you knew it was the beginning of something. September is also Healthy Aging Month…

July 28, 2021, was Day 1 of the Unity National Community Health Worker conference (Unity), with the bonus of the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) second annual meeting. At Unity, community health workers (CHWs) convened to support communities in achieving health, equity, and social justice. Over 800 CHWs…

Most of us live in a community and belong to overlapping groups of people. While academic and medical disciplines define community health in various ways, the idea of community members contributing to improved health is relatively simple. It is not a radical idea: home remedies and help from traditional health…

We hear a lot in the media about the ongoing challenges with COVID-19 vaccine distribution: managing the complex cold chain requirements of multidose vials; countering anti-vaccination messaging; overcoming vaccine hesitancy; and confronting gross inequities in vaccine distribution. But at the local level, “where the vaccine gets into arms,” a lot…

International Women’s Day. #ChoosetoChallenge: A challenged world is an alert world. And from challenge comes change. The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is designed to inspire us to think more deeply about what else we can do to #ChoosetoChallenge existing inequities related to women’s health across the world. …