


Three recommendations to improve the measurement of Sustainable Development Goal 16

Reaching rural U.S. populations at risk for diabetes: Three areas for further study

Year in review: R&E Search for Evidence 2022

Social marketing and health literacy innovation: Using a partner approach in diabetes prevention

Stakeholder mapping to drive global guidelines implementation: Reflections from the 2022 Hand Hygiene Think Tank

How local knowledge can improve the effectiveness of development policies

Challenge & Opportunity: How to increase uptake of open science practices in education research

Slow and steady, it’s not a race: Building the evidence base for digital self-care

As we refocus our efforts on tackling HIV, what can we learn from resilience in the face of COVID-19?

How often are local authors the lead on health research conducted in low- and middle-income countries?

Turned Away: The role of providers in denying family planning to women in Malawi

Developing a framework for measuring menstrual changes

Transferring evidence between contexts: Highlights from CEDIL annual conference

How we define health outcomes impacts our research: The case of COVID-19 among smokers

Effective supply chain management approach for essential drugs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The power of belonging in developing positive math identity

Participant Engagement Activities: A tool for promoting ownership and understanding among participants in clinical trials

Using ethnography to understand how complex system dynamics influence individual health provider behaviors

Five-year retrospective: Our founding editors recount the growing pains and the humor of building a research blog

Year in review: Read our top blog posts of 2021

Keeping our ears and minds open: Monitoring and evaluation for a virtual training

How the other half banks: Exclusion, exploitation and the threat to democracy – A book review

Conducting clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic

Can a test-and-prevent approach link people at risk of HIV to prevention services?

Behavior change using social norms: Does the popular opinion leader intervention work in LMICs?

Reimagining how social-behavioral research can be integrated into contraceptive R&D

Our most popular research blog posts of 2020

School-based physical activity and diet interventions can be effective for addressing obesity in children in LMICs: Evidence from systematic reviews

Disability screening tools and when to use them: Lessons learned under the Equity Initiative

What evidence is there for interventions to address the dual burden of malnutrition? A rapid review

New evidence for improving handwashing access and behavior during COVID-19 and beyond

The challenges for the triple nexus approach to humanitarian assistance: A case study analysis

Research utilization is the connective tissue between evidence and action

Operationalizing ‘what works’ for education in emergencies research: 5 factors that facilitate ethical randomized designs

Did you get the message? My favorite behavior change studies can inform the COVID-19 response

Book review: Peace through Entrepreneurship by Steven Koltai

Why we need to act now to integrate gender in health development research

What’s mode got to do with it? Comparing in-person and online qualitative data collection

Can you see me now? My experiences testing different modes of qualitative data collection

Year in review: What are the most popular blog posts of 2019?

Public health vs. social science: Do publication lags matter?

Public health vs. social science research: How does authorship differ?

Achieving the SDGs requires governments and businesses to think alike: A book review of Marga Hoek’s The Trillion Dollar Shift

Next steps in strengthening education in emergencies data

Looking ahead: Assessing the accuracy of Education Policy and Data Center projections

Why understanding adolescents’ perceptions of gender inequitable norms is important for development programming

Highlights from the GCIS 2019 conference and thoughts on the future of implementation science

Let’s bring back theory to theory of change

Hey Jude: A book review of The Business of Changing the World by Raj Kumar

New country landing page visualizations offer users dynamic ways to engage with education data

What’s in a cell? How to read an evidence map with a digital identity example

Research Roundtable video: Best practices for engaging research participants

That’s great, but what does it cost?

Book review: Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang (and thoughts on science and the scientific method)

Looking back at the most popular posts and prolific authors in 2018

What do we know about the costs of natural disasters and disease outbreaks?

Sneaky in a good way: The use of survey and assessment metadata in soft skills measurement

6 steps for measuring equitable education access in crisis and conflict settings

How to conduct a replication study: What not to do

How to conduct a replication study: Which tests not witch hunts

The calculations are in: Digitizing salaries can save governments millions

We should be able to evaluate interventions for the disabled

Midline research reveals promising results for mLabour health application

New directions in portfolio reviews

3 women leading the charge in ICT4D research

Quarterly recap of FHI 360’s blog on research and evaluation, January–March 2018

The science of humanitarian response in crisis settings

Gearing up to enhance college readiness for underserved students: Insights from a capacity building workshop

Using a structured approach to maximize return on clinical trial research investments

Strengthening capacity to track, store and use data effectively at Catholic and independent schools

Implementation research: The unambiguous cornerstone of implementation science

Investigating STEM and the importance of girls’ math identity

5 features of a monitoring, evaluation and learning system geared towards equity in education

To achieve equity in education, we need the right data

Faster, cheaper and safer: Do UAVs live up to the hype?

Moving from indicators of facility coverage and use toward capability to reduce maternal mortality

Quarterly recap of FHI 360’s blog on research and evaluation, October–December 2017

My tribute to Peter Lamptey’s lifelong contributions to global health

5 lessons for using youth video diaries for monitoring and evaluation

Five things you can do today to participate in open scholarship

Seizing an opportunity to collect user experience data

Hypothetically speaking… If we build it, will they come?

FHI 360’s R&E Search for Evidence quarterly highlights

Paper-based data collection: Moving backwards or expanding the arsenal?

Four tips for turning big data into big practice

Book Review: Rigor Mortis – Harris says the rigor in science is dead

Mobile-based surveys: Can you hear me now?

Don’t spin the bottle, please: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part II

Sample size is not king: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part I

Big data and data analytics: I do not think it means what you think it means

Turning lemons into lemonade, and then drinking it: Rigorous evaluation under challenging conditions

Improving the evaluation of quality improvement

Applying the power of partnership to evaluation of a long-acting contraceptive

Research on integrated development: These are a few of my favorite things

Riddle me this: How many interviews (or focus groups) are enough?

Why should practitioners publish their research in journals?

7 takeaways from changes in US education grant programs

Evaluation ethics: Getting it right

A pathway for sampling success

Gearing up to address attrition: Cohort designs with longitudinal data
