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Announcement CCP Researcher Young Mi Kim Wins MAQie AwardWASHINGTON-The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded its annual MAQie award to Young Mi Kim, PhD, a researcher with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs. The MAQie Award recognizes special contributions to the advancement of Access and Quality. The following criteria are considered in selecting the recipient each year.
Specifically, USAID recognized Young Mi Kim as a leader in the global effort to improve the quality of client-provider communication. Her early work looked at such critical issues as counseling youth and couples. Over the years she has successfully transferred proven, state-of-the-art research methodologies used in the U.S. and Europe, to her work in developing countries. The transfer was possible due to a process of creative problem solving that resulted in approaches innovative yet practical and realistic for use in low-resource settings. More recently, she collaborated with others to develop and test innovations to improve provider communication, as well as to empower client communication. The innovative 'SMART' model of client empowerment originally developed for family planning counseling has been adapted to a number of programmatic contexts and is now being implemented at scale in Indonesia, in Kenya to introduce malaria prophylaxis, and in the context of primary health care in Peru. Dr. Kim's research has been carried out in collaboration with the World Health Organization, QAP, Frontiers, and numerous field-based agencies around the globe. |
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