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COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health: Lessons from Zika and Ebola
The need to rapidly learn from previous experience and evidence on sexual and reproductive health in epidemics is now an...
Education in the time of COVID-19: Learning for a resilient future
The latest data from UNESCO shows that over 1.5 billion learners have been affected by restrictions imposed due to COVID-19.
Tackling NTDs: A look at the future of control and elimination
As evaluators working on WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and NTDs (neglected tropical diseases), we thought it was time...
The fight against deadly pandemics: the importance of strengthening International Health Regulations
With global disease outbreaks becoming increasingly common, the importance of building both the UK and other countries’...
Until no-one is left behind: Strengthening CSOs’ role in immunisation
Global immunisation coverage is advancing towards the 90% target set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan.
A world at risk? A role for evaluators in strengthening Global Health Security.
Are we really prepared for the threat of a fast-moving respiratory pandemic? We kick off the week with this thought provoking...
From compliance to love with MEL: Supporting busy advocacy organisations to embrace monitoring, evaluation and learning
Over the course of our work with advocacy organisations, we’ve identified three insights about how to cross the divide from...
No time to wait: evaluating the fight against ‘Drugmageddon’
This week, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, called for an Extinction Rebellion-style campaign to raise...
Design for Health: the role of data and evidence
In this blog, Emma Mulhern, describes her initial impressions of Design for Health, a joint venture by both the Bill and...
Capturing learning in Global Health: reflections from Itad’s Global Health Day
On the 19th April, the health theme at Itad welcomed friends and colleagues to an afternoon of exchange on ‘Capturing...
Another 60 Seconds with Itad’s health theme
In 2017 Itad’s health theme and its portfolio of monitoring, evaluation and learning projects has continued to grow and...
Global Health 50/50 – where are the men?
I was watching the launch of the Global Health 50/50 Report at UCL recently, and as we had also just celebrated International...
Reflections from the IAAH
Christina Atchison and Emma Mulhern reflect on attending the 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health in New Delhi, India
What role will China play in global health and how will we work together?
China has historically been a recipient of development assistance and funding, but this is changing with the country’s...
Evaluation is crucial to reaching the FP2020 goals
The Health Theme in Itad has been thinking about what evaluation means to them in the family planning arena.
AIDS, TB and Malaria: What difference is the Global Fund making?
In 2015 Itad, together with Euro Health Group and the University of California, San Francisco, was commissioned by the Global...
