Featured Projects
Improving Public Health Decision Making
Public health decision-making often takes place with imperfect information due to gaps in information systems, data sources, and evidence-based indicators. We are committed to improving information for health decision making in order to support countries in making more efficient resource allocation decisions and drive programs toward greater impact.
Exploring the ethics of Big Data for public health
The use of novel data sets for public health has given rise to the need to develop ethical guardrails and frameworks to maximize the use of this data for global good, while preventing its misuse. The Center for Innovation in Global Health Policy and Law is partnering with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cooper/Smith, and Georgetown’s Ethics Lab to develop an approach for addressing the ethical concerns that arise as more data becomes available and accessible to the health sector.
Innovation in HIV Prevention
In May 2020, the Center for Innovation in Global Health received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to partner with the Government of Malawi and develop an innovative health systems approach to HIV prevention in the southern district of Blantyre that could be scaled nationally and regionally. The strategy aims to develop a replicable model for effective HIV prevention focused on defining, optimizing and embedding core systems capabilities needed to successfully end the epidemic and strengthen health security.
Integrating Global Health Programs
HIV and Universal Health Coverage
The Center for Innovation in Global Health is on the forefront of research and practice relating to the strategic integration of large, single-disease responses such as HIV with broader health systems approaches, including health security and universal health coverage. We are innovating and testing strategies that seek to identify and strengthen common elements of the health system needed to successfully combat HIV infection, support health security preparedness and response and contribute to universal health coverage (UHC).
Improving the Quality of HIV Services
With 5 million lives lost annually to poor quality care in low and middle income countries, governments and global partners such as WHO have prioritized improvement. We help lead this work.
U.S. Policymaker Engagement
Dr. Holmes and colleagues have collaborated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC on three recent reports and launch events:
Report: U.S. leadership in the COVID-19 pandemic response: global health is U.S. health
Event at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC, featured CIGH’s Dr. Holmes, BPC’s Dr. Anand Parekh, Naomi Seiler (George Washington University), along with leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and local U.S. communities.