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  • World AIDS Day: Partnering with communities to enhance program performance

    For more than 30 years, December 1st has been recognized as World AIDS Day to raise awareness about the epidemic and to remember the lives lost to it. This year, communities are being highlighted for the critical role they play in the AIDS response. Communities are an essential partner for reaching people in need of…

  • Education inspires teachers, students confronting crisis in northeast Nigeria

    Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeast Nigeria, welcomes visitors with a sign featuring a quote from Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, “With education, you can kill terrorism.” The humanitarian crisis in Borno is acute. Ten years of conflict from armed opposition groups have exacerbated development challenges, including limiting access to education for many…

  • Vietnam looks to local communities to tackle noncommunicable diseases

    In Vietnam, community engagement and empowerment are proving to be powerful strategies for controlling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension and diabetes. NCDs cause more than 500,000 deaths each year in Vietnam. A 2015 Ministry of Health report on NCDs estimated 20 percent of adults live with hypertension and 4 percent with diabetes. To combat…

  • Pfizer Global Health Fellows and FHI 360 partner for impact

    For more than 15 years, FHI 360 has collaborated with Pfizer Inc. on its Global Health Fellows program, which sends Pfizer employees to work together with partner organizations around the world to address community-specific health needs and strengthen health systems. The fellows bring diverse backgrounds – such as market analytics, supply chain and business expertise…

  • Early childhood language summits build collaboration, community among Native American tribes

    Across the United States, less than 2 percent of the 46,000 Native American and Alaskan native children who are enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start programs speak their tribal languages at home. To preserve and maintain these languages, it is critical to ground young children in their heritage. But, what are the best…

  • Education investment strategies launched in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network

    Education is a critical driver of economic growth and social development, but the challenge of providing effective, equitable and affordable education can be significant in some parts of the world. The emergence of new school models, adoption of new technologies and strengthening of ties with the labor market, however, have the potential to improve the…

  • Safe and dignified burials reduce the spread of Ebola in the DRC

    In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), violence and mistrust are potent factors in the spread of Ebola virus disease (EVD). One rumor in the district of Nyakasanza alleged that burial teams were harvesting human organs from the bodies of the deceased for illegal trade. To allay fears and dispel misunderstanding, FHI 360’s crisis…

  • Responding to technology disruptions: The Future Workforce Now initiative

    Disruptive technologies – such as robotics, big data, artificial intelligence and 3D printing – are creating new and diverse work opportunities worldwide, but they are also threatening traditional jobs in sectors such as manufacturing and health care. In the United States, the Southern Regional Education Board estimates that 18 million adults in the southern and…

  • Online module facilitates use of assistive technology for students with disabilities

    In the United States, nearly seven million public school students ages 3–21 receive special education services, but only a small percentage of them use assistive technology (AT) in their classrooms. Students often have a range of abilities and disabilities, and many could benefit from some form of AT. To increase teachers’ understanding of AT and…

  • NCCOR marks a decade of accelerating childhood obesity research

    The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary and released its 2018 annual report, which highlights the significant progress the organization has made in advancing this field. When NCCOR was formed in 2009, childhood obesity rates had been rising steadily in the United States for several decades. This trend led…

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