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  • Evaluating Health KM Programs

    Health programs with a knowledge management component are often asked to demonstrate how their information sharing activities "make a difference." During our long history of designing and implementing KM programs, we also have gained valuable experience in evaluating such programs. Through conceptual frameworks, guides, journal articles, and blogs, we share our experiences with like-minded organizations and projects to learn from each other and avoid duplication of effort.

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  • Mobile Technologies for Health (mHealth)

    mHealth—the use of mobile technologies (including phones, tablets, and netbooks) to improve public health—is of particular interest in developing countries, where widespread mobile networks and access to devices are connecting people like never before, leap-frogging older technologies to dramatically improve information flow, data collection, social and behavior change, and emergency response.

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  • High-Impact Practices in Family Planning

    High-impact practices in family planning (HIPs) are promising or best practices that, when scaled up and institutionalized, will maximize investments in a comprehensive family planning strategy. HIPs help family planning programs focus their resources and efforts to ensure they have the broadest reach and greatest impact. K4Health is working with USAID to collect data on programs which use these practices and to maintain a website devoted to HIPs.

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  • HIV/AIDS

    Family planning and HIV/AIDS programs and services have many overlaps. For example, male and female condoms are the only methods that prevent both unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission and acquisition. Integrated HIV/AIDS and family planning services are important in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

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  • Knowledge Management for Public Health

    Knowledge management (KM) is a set of approaches that value and support generating, curating, and sharing knowledge, with the goal of making that knowledge accessible and usable in different formats by different people. In many business contexts, KM is used as a tool for greater organizational effectiveness and efficiency—to improve the bottom line. K4Health uses—and promotes the use of—KM to improve public health outcomes. Our bottom line is that knowledge management can help save lives.

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For nearly 40 years, K4Health and its predecessor projects at the Center for Communication Programs have been synthesizing and sharing health knowledge with program managers, service providers, and other health care professionals around the world. Our specialty focus is in international family planning and reproductive health, but we also cover other global health topics. In addition, we share knowledge with our peers on our key areas of expertise, including knowledge management (KM) for public health, evaluation of health KM programs, and mobile technologies for health (mHealth). We are also working with USAID to gather data about and promote high-impact practices in family planning (HIPs).