Projects

Provided technical assistance to adapt URC’s infant and young child feeding (IYCF) materials to the Malawian context. The project provided expertise in developing stakeholder consensus on adaptations, provision of technical content recommendations and adaptation of images, text, and messages. URC also worked with UNICEF/New York and Nutritional Policy and Practice, LLP, to develop a generic...

Overview and Objectives Provided technical assistance in six countries to monitor and evaluate programmatic data with The Global Fund’s Data Quality Audit (DQA) Tool. The tool helps Global Fund programs check that appropriate data management systems are in place, verify the quality of reported data for key indicators at sites, and use findings to identify...

HCI directly examined how neglected health care processes function and developed practical ways to help health workers and managers improve them. HCI provided global technical leadership and expertise to improve health care delivery and health workforce capacity and performance in USAID-assisted countries...

HealthPRO was USAID’s lead vehicle for providing technical assistance in health promotion and communication to the Philippine Department of Health, local government units, and others in promoting and sustaining healthy behaviors related to maternal, neonatal, and child health and nutrition; family planning, TB, and HIV/AIDS...

This community-based malaria control and prevention project aims to reduce (drug-resistant) malaria in western Cambodia. Funded by USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA), the project provides technical assistance and support to the Cambodian National Malaria Control Program (NMCP)...

Provided technical assistance to improve the quality and safety of health care services in hospitals and primary health care facilities in Jordan. Helped to establish and build the capacity of the Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC) to develop health care standards, certify health care professionals, monitor compliance...

Developed an interactive, breastfeeding training curriculum to address the core competencies needed by those who, throughout the continuum of care, provided community-based breastfeeding leadership, training, and education at the local agency level in the WIC Program. This project was implemented for the Food and Nutrition Service.

Researched potential demand for diagnostics of high morbidity and mortality diseases—HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, and acute lower respiratory illness—in several developing countries. The research examined issues surrounding the use of diagnostic tests: consumer willingness to use and pay for them, health care providers and program managers’ perceptions of their effectiveness, and factors...

Conducted research in Tanzania to investigate the feasibility of using flash-heating, a pasteurization technique, to kill HIV in breast milk without reducing the milk’s protective qualities. The study also investigated whether female community health workers could take the place of overburdened clinic staff to provide training to HIV-positive mothers who choose to use this new...

Conducted a project aimed at reducing high-risk drinking among first year students and members of fraternities and sororities at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. The project sought to reframe high-risk drinking as a community issue, engaging and empowering students, parents, faculty, staff, and various Westminster stakeholders (e.g., police, government, retailers, etc.) in all programming. This...