March 2012

  • K4Health Highlights
    March 27, 2012

    K4Health Leaders to Teach Johns Hopkins Summer Institute Course

    Piers Bocock

    K4Health, JHU∙CCP | Project Director

    As the Project Director for K4Health, one of USAID’s flagship Knowledge Management (KM) projects, I get asked a lot of questions. And perhaps more than any other is this: “What is Knowledge Management, anyway?” I also get this one a lot: “What does Knowledge Management have to do with Public Health?” If you think you want to get more than the elevator pitch about KM, or want to understand how improved access to, and sharing of, health information can save lives and improve health outcomes, I invite you to spend 3 days with me and K4Health’s Knowledge Management Director, Tara Sullivan, as we lead a Summer Institute Course at Johns Hopkins. 

    Tara and I will co-teach K4Health’s new “Knowledge Management for Public Health in Low and Middle Income Countries” course June 20-22, 2012. The course will introduce participants to the basics of KM, the intentional process of capturing, storing, organizing, and exchanging knowledge to better inform decision-making. It will then show how the application of KM theory, principles and methods can be applied to strengthen public health systems. We’ll do this through lectures, case studies, presentations, and discussions. We’re excited that the school has asked us to offer this course, and I think anyone with an interest in KM in practice or how public health information can save lives will enjoy this course.

    Read more: Course information on the Summer Institute website.

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  • K4Health Highlights
    March 26, 2012

    "Knowledge is Power, Power is Knowledge": Witnessing the impact of K4Health as Swaziland's Nkamanzi Community Info Centre opens the door to HIV/AIDS knowledge

    Elizabeth Tully

    JHU∙CCP | Toolkit Manager

    Recently, while in Swaziland to assist the Soka Uncobe Project in developing a toolkit containing project materials and essential information on male circumcision, I was fortunate enough to attend the Nkamanzi Community Info Centre launch. While I did not understand every piece of the program due to many speeches being given in the local language, SiSwati, I discerned that they were giving praises to the implementing partners, including Knowledge for Health (K4Health), SAfAIDS, and NERCHA. Hearing high-level officials speak about the very project I work on while sitting on a mountainside in Swaziland was quite special to me.

    Info Centre Sign

    The event location was beautifully situated on one of the many mountains in Swaziland within the Nkamanzi community. The conference was well attended with community members, children, and government officials.   

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  • K4Health Highlights
    March 14, 2012

    Change is Coming (Part 2)

    Simone Parrish

    JHU∙CCP | Web Products Manager

    This is the second part of a series on the now-in-progress enhancements to the K4Health Web Products Portfolio. Read Part 1 (Photoshare and the Blog).

    Updating the Main K4Health.org Site: We Hear You

    As you may know, we have been working on several enhancements to K4Health’s web-based products. The next piece of this project to roll out will be a revised www.k4health.org. You’ll see changes within the next few weeks. (Later this spring, we will also be rolling out long-awaited improvements to Toolkits and POPLINE, a second round of Photoshare upgrades, and some more surprises.)

    The upcoming changes are our response to the concerns raised by you—the people who rely on K4Health for high-quality, up-to-date information about family planning and reproductive health and related global health issues. We have turned our knowledge management expertise and the best practices we recommend to others onto ourselves.  Based on what we found our users need and want, we have revised how we arrange and share knowledge on K4Health.org, our flagship website.

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  • Health Innovations
    March 14, 2012

    Pay-As-You-Go Solar Lights Up Rural Communities

    Stephen Goldstein

    JHU∙CCP | Senior Consultant

    Rural households in low-income countries often use expensive, unsafe, inefficient, and smoky kerosene-burning lamps as their only source of light, but new solar powered technology is coming to the aid of at least some of the approximately 1.6 billion people (over one-fifth of the world population) who don’t have access to grid electricity.  

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  • March 13, 2012

    Kenya Launches Reproductive Health Website

    George Obanyi

    FHI360/Kenya | Information Officer
    Dr. Isaak Bashir

    Getting the right information at the right time to the people who need it is a big challenge in many countries. A good website with carefully selected materials is one way to ensure policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have access to relevant knowledge and timely information.

    Kenya’s Division of Reproductive Health has officially launched its new website (www.drh.go.ke), designed to be a one-stop shop for up-to-date information on reproductive health.

    Dr. Isaak Bashir, head of the Division of Reproductive Health, said the website would play an important role in informing health professionals and policymakers on reproductive health issues.

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