Other Health Programs

CCP works in a number of other areas beyond its Global Health Programs. Among these are projects in child health, immunization, nutrition, TB and other infectious diseases.

Contact Person

William Glass wglass@jhuccp.org [1]

Projects

Bangladesh Knowledge Management Initiative [2]

Under the Bangladesh Knowledge Management Initiative (BKMI), the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with technical support from K4Health, are working to deliver coordinated, integrated, and harmonized communication and knowledge management that motivates healthier population, health, and nutrition (PHN) behaviors and increases use of health services among communities. This effort is part of the U.S. Government’s Global Health Initiative (GHI), which focuses on maximizing sustainable health impacts and looks for unique and innovative opportunities to scale-up existing efforts. Bangladesh has been selected as a “GHI-plus” country.

To increase access to, comprehension of, and application of integrated, coordinated, and harmonized PHN BCC knowledge and resources, K4Health will provide logistics to deliver digital BCC tools and resources to frontline health care workers, including electronic Toolkits of coordinated PHN messages and materials and PHN eLearning courses.

Empowering New Generations to Improve Nutrition and Economic opportunities (ENGINE) [3]

JHU∙CCP is pleased to announce the launce of developing and implementing the social and behavior change communication (SBCC) strategy for ENGINE (Empowering New Generations to Improve Nutrition and Economic opportunities), a new five-year, $6 Million USAID-funded project in Ethiopia.

Led by Save the Children, CCP joins the Feinstein International Center and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Jhpiego, Land O’ Lakes Inc. International Development and Valid International on the project team.

The goal of ENGINE is to improve the nutritional status of women and young children in 100 woredas (or districts) across Ethiopia through sustainable, comprehensive, coordinated and evidence-based interventions. This project will work in tandem with the US Government’s Feed the Future program, which operates in 83 of the 100 woredas the ENGINE project covers, and our focus will be on pregnant women, new mothers and the 1,000 days between pregnancy and 2 years old—those who are most vulnerable to malnutrition.

Faisons Ensemble (Let Us Act Together) [4]

Faisons Ensemble (Let Us Act Together), a two-year project funded by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI), was designed to meet USAID’s objective of governance reform in Guinea. Led by BLANK, the project focused on governance reform in the health, education, agriculture and natural resource management sectors. CCP’s role focused on empowering citizens by increasing public access to information.

Maternal and Neonatal Health Program (MNH) [5]

Initiated in October 1998, the Maternal & Neonatal Health (MNH) Program was a 5-year USAID-funded global initiative to increase the survival of mothers and their newborns. Its mission was to provide technical assistance to increase access to, demand for, and use of life saving care for mothers and newborns. The MNH Program was implemented by JHPIEGO in collaboration with CCP, CEDPA, and the Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health in 11 countries worldwide. CCP facilitated Nepal’s first Safe Motherhood Information Education Communication (SMEIC) strategy and an innovative campaign reaching out to husbands and mother-in-laws to improve maternal health.

Measure Demograhic and Health Surveys [6]

The Measure DHS project, funded by USAID, is a five year project implemented by ICF Macro. The DHS program provides assistance to countries with the Demographic and Health Survey, the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Survey, the HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey (AIS), Malaria Indicators Survey (MIS) and qualitative research. prjoect. Since October 2008, ICF Macro has partnered with five internationally experienced organizations CCP, PATH, The Futures Institute, CAMRIS Internatonal, and Blue Rastter to expand access to and use of the DHS data. CCP's role focuses largely on dissemination activites at both the country and global level.

Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN) [7]

Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN), a five-year project funded by DFID, is focused on improving routine immunization coverage in four northern Nigerian states: Jigawa, Katsina, Yobe and Zamfara. Led by a consortium of three prime partners -- HPI, Save the Children UK and GRID -- PRRINN’s goal is to improve immunization coverage in a sustainable manner and strengthen both routine immunization systems and by extension, the primary health care system. CCP provides technical expertise in communication, operational research and community mobilization. CCP designs appropriate communication strategies, provides training and support, and implements methodologies to increase demand for, and improve the supply of, routine immunization services.

ProVision Eye Health Campaign [8]

ProVision Eye Health Campaign, a 2004-2008 project funded by NIH National Eye Institute, address eye health among Baltimore’s Latino population. Led by The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Center for Communication Programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the goal of the project was to increase knowledge about diabetic eye disease and increase care-seeking behaviors. CCP developed an eye health communication strategy to address these project objectives. As part of this effort, CCP assisted in the development and implementation of the project’s household survey, designed and carried out qualitative formative research, designed and produced materials for interviewers and survey participants, and began to design the communication campaign strategy.

Strategic SBCC for Child Survival and Maternal Health [9]

Advancing NRHM Outcomes in Andhra Pradesh: Developing strategic SBCC to promote child survival behaviours and redefining norms around maternal health was a 6-month project in Andhra Pradesh, India, led by CCP and funded by UNICEF. The project provided technical assistance and capacity building for social and behavior change communication (SBCC) to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Andhra Pradesh, focusing on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and nutrition. CCP provided technical assistance for the development of a state-wide SBCC strategy, including messaging, product development and implementation plans to reduce maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality.

Suaahara [10]

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Suaahara works in 25 underserved districts in Nepal to improve the health and wellbeing of the Nepali people by focusing on the nutritional status of women and children under-two years of age. Led by Save the Children, the project will work with communities, government and civil society organizations to provide women and their families with access to information and skills for better nutrition, hygiene and health practices.

The project will also support the Government of Nepal to enable it to achieve the goals in its National Nutrition Action Plan. For example, it will work with the government to build the capacity of health workers, as well as staff from the Departments of Agriculture, Local Governance, Education, and Water. This will create multi-sectoral collaboration and synergy to address the pervasive problem of under-nutrition in Nepal.

Suaahara means good nutrition, or “a good balanced diet is the strong foundation protecting our lives.” As part of the implementing team, CCP will support strategic social and behavior change communication initiatives that build on this message and lead to improved maternal, infant and child nutrition—including demand creation for locally available nutritious foods. It will also design a series of communication interventions that support national nutritional health issues.

Support to the Safe Motherhood Programme (SSMP) [11]

Support to the Safe Motherhood Programme (SSMP) was a 5-year DFID-funded programme that worked directly with the Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to sustain the National Safe Motherhood Programme. Managed by Options UK, SSMP focused on improving the policy environment and systems for delivering and improving access to maternal health care especially for poor and socially excluded women. CCP’s role as a partner with SSMP was to provide technical support in health communication, both for the Government through the National Health Education, Information, and Communication Center (NHEICC), and for other SSMP implementing partners, including Action Aid Nepal, United Mission to Nepal and UNICEF. CCP focused on strengthening capacity in strategic communication planning, networking, implementation, and monitoring, and developing media and materials for the program. All program activities were in line with the National Safe Motherhood IEC Strategy.

Tanzania Capacity and Communication Project (TCCP) [12]

TCCP is a five-year, USAID-funded project led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP). TCCP is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare – National AIDS Control Program for AIDS. Other major stakeholders are the Tanzania Commission for AIDS, MOHSW Reproductive and Child Health Section (RCHS), regional and local Governments, other United States Government organizations, Media for Development International, CARE Tanzania and local non-government organizations and private sector organizations. TCCP’s vision is a Tanzania where people take charge of their own health, thus creating healthy households where individual changes in health lead to healthier families and communities. TCCP’s areas of focus include HIV prevention, reproductive health and maternal and child health.

The Hib Initiative [13]

The Hib Initiative (Hib), a two-year project funded by GAVI/The Vaccine Fund, aimed to expedite and sustain evidence-informed decisions regarding Hib vaccination to prevent childhood meningitis and pneumonia. Hib is a consortium of four partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WHO and CDC. Hib focuses on three strategic areas to support evidence-based decisions at the country level: coordination, communication and research. CCP conducted global, regional and country level communication activities to accelerate the introduction and uptake of Hib vaccine.

Tuberculosis Control Program for the Central Asia Region [14]

The Tuberculosis Control Program for the Central Asia Republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), was a five-year project funded by USAID to address Tuberculosis (TB) services. Led by Project Hope, the program was designed to strengthen political commitment and clinical capacity for universal awareness, availability and quality of TB services. CCP’s role was to provide training and technical assistance in communication strategy design, materials development, implementation, and project evaluation.

Zambia Integrated Systems Strengthening Program (ZISSP) [15]

The Zambia Integrated Systems Strengthening Program (ZISSP) is a USAID program designed to increase utilization of critical high- impact health services through a health systems strengthening approach. The program works at the national, provincial, district and community levels in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to strengthen health systems. The program focuses on the following high-impact health services; HIV/AIDS, malaria, family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH), maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), and nutrition. ZISSP is operating in 9 provinces and 27 districts of Zambia. ZISSP is led by Abt Associates, and JHU∙CCP leads the community level BCC activities.

Publications and Program Materials

Mobilizing for Impact: Building Partnerships to Save Mothers: Nepal’s SUMATA Initiative [16]

Wazazi Nipendeni Safe Motherhood Campaign [17]