A new interactive tool captures knowledge, attitudes and behaviors around vaccines, masking and more from 12 million people in 115 countries.
“Vaccination is not gender blind and we know that from previous vaccination campaigns,” says Joanna Skinner, one of the leaders of CCP’s gender work. “By paying attention to gender issues, you can have a greater impact in terms of behavior change.”
With the excitement and suspense of the television show “Shark Tank,” CCP’s Knowledge SUCCESS project chose four winners from a field of 80 contestants in a global competition to find and fund creative knowledge management ideas for family planning.
The infant mortality rate in Baltimore’s Upton/Druid Heights has dropped by 75 percent to 3.8 deaths per 1,000 live births, well below Maryland’s overall rate (5.9 in 2019) and the United States rate (5.6 in 2019).
The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) serves as a strategic inflection point for the family planning and reproductive health community worldwide. It provides an opportunity to disseminate knowledge, celebrate successes, and identify next steps toward reaching the goal of enabling an additional 120 million women to access voluntary, quality contraception by 2020 – and beyond.
Promoting equitable access to safe surgery for women
Food choices made by kids in India improved after they played a mobile game where avatars fight robots that represent unhealthy foods, new research suggests. CCP”s Uttara Bharath Kumar helped conduct the research.
Non-communicable diseases – illnesses like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to more than seven out of 10 deaths worldwide. More than half of these deaths occur in the world’s poorest countries with younger people
The Summit is expected to draw more than 1,500 SBCC practitioners and will provide the opportunity to connect with decision makers at NGOs, government officials and academics from major institutions. The event promises face-to-face time with creative thinkers and innovators working to engage communities to make change in family planning, climate crisis, malaria, risk communication, health equity and so much more.
Debra “Debbie” Dickson, the longest-serving employee of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, died on Dec. 31 after a long illness. She was 65.
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