Category
Book Review | What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World
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
Are front-of-pack labeling systems in Thailand helping consumers choose healthy products? Findings from a rapid review
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
Reigniting the fight for HIV prevention and treatment: Key takeaways from AIDS 2022 Conference
New evidence highlights persistence of systemic issues facing PhD students from marginalized communities
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?
Africans leading the research effort to control HIV and COVID-19 in Africa: The INTEREST Conference, Kampala, Uganda
To close HIV prevention and treatment gaps in Malawi, study supports mix of approaches for key populations
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
Evidence on mental health-focused intervention for Intimate Partner Violence among refugees
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
Increasing the impact of reproductive health programs through social norms: Qualitative research in Burundi
Year in review: Read our top blog posts of 2021
New evidence suggests that financial inclusion boosts mental health
Keeping our ears and minds open: Monitoring and evaluation for a virtual training
Research Roundtable video: Exploring best practices in literacy coaching
How the other half banks: Exclusion, exploitation and the threat to democracy – A book review
The power of relationships in college and career readiness programs
Less cost and effective: Testing the accuracy of handheld devices for medicine quality assurance
Gender considerations for hygiene programming: Insights from the 2021 Handwashing Innovations Think Tank
Ending TB is a matter of quality: A book review of Quality of Tuberculosis Care
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
Exploring the value of traditional healers in modern health care systems
Research Roundtable video: Assessing the health status of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Research Roundtable video: Exploring the impact of stigma for people living with HIV in the United States
Integrating social and emotional learning into pre-service teacher education: Lessons from a formative study in Guatemala
Impact of COVID-19 on WASH practices among young people
Are women leaders a better fit for the COVID-19 response?
Methods to support a systematic approach to research utilization
New evidence about intrauterine contraceptives can benefit women living with HIV in LMICs
The evidence base for social norms-based approaches to reduce intimate partner violence in LMICs
Fundamentals first: Monitoring water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities
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
Understanding how race influences attitudes and behaviors towards the flu vaccine can inform a COVID-19 vaccine response
Research Roundtable video: Expanding HIV PrEP with long-acting injectables
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
An approach to rapid evidence review and what we learned when we piloted it
How has COVID-19 impacted reproductive health experiences in the United States?
Is a health video library acceptable and feasible for helping community health workers? Evidence from Afghanistan
Research Roundtable video: Comparing in-person and online modes of data collection
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
Expanding HIV PrEP with long-acting injectables: What can we learn about acceptability from a clinical trial?
Book review: Diversity, violence and recognition – How recognizing ethnic identity promotes peace by King and Samii
Research utilization is the connective tissue between evidence and action
Research Roundtable video: Improving health equity in the United States
How to pick the right survey tool for your COVID-19 context
Let’s be SMART about it: Collecting real-time nutrition data in crisis and conflict settings
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
Research Roundtable video: Addressing intimate partner dynamics to prevent HIV
Book review: Peace through Entrepreneurship by Steven Koltai
Why we need to act now to integrate gender in health development research
What’s wrong with the evidence for mHealth?
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
Whether, which and when: Developing guidance for the integration of household economic strengthening activities into family support programming
Research Roundtable video: Interventions improve early grade reading outcomes
Show me the money! How we have used financial diaries to inform research and programming for vulnerable groups
Everyone deserves to live free of violence: How HIV and GBV service integration can improve lives and effectively address twin epidemics
What’s documentation got to do with it? Examining the evidence on scale-up of social norms interventions for adolescent and youth reproductive health
Understanding the use of nudges in handwashing behavior change programs: Highlights from the 2019 UNC Water and Health Conference
Understanding the financial lives of vulnerable groups using financial diaries
Next steps in strengthening education in emergencies data
Research Roundtable video: Sustaining nutrition policy through presidential transitions
Looking ahead: Assessing the accuracy of Education Policy and Data Center projections
The effectiveness of index testing and partner notification services in HIV case-finding in Zimbabwe
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
New evidence on the determinants of childhood stunting in Nepal
Let’s bring back theory to theory of change
What can we learn from system-generated digital health program data? Turns out, quite a lot
2018 Handwashing Research Index: A catalog of research publications
Gender in food security programming matters
Research Roundtable video: Text messaging for reproductive health
That’s great, but what does it cost?
New evidence from gender-based violence research among key populations can inform HIV programming
What I learned from a new study about girls’ education and early marriage
Taking public health innovations to scale: Pathways, drivers and facilitators
New analysis of breakthrough TB in Ethiopia can inform global TB response
Make me a match: Matching your manuscript with an appropriate journal
How do you reduce household food insecurity? New evidence says integrate nutrition into existing antenatal care
Book review: Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang (and thoughts on science and the scientific method)
One of our favorite studies: A case study of feminist mathematics
Making a difference with research: Working with partners, patients and communities in Durham, North Carolina
Is the evidence we use in international development verifiable? Push button replication provides the answer
Looking back at the most popular posts and prolific authors in 2018
Getting behind human-centered design for contraceptive innovation
What do we know about the costs of natural disasters and disease outbreaks?
“Because of how you are”: Using participatory research to understand violence against transgender women in Latin American and the Caribbean
Sneaky in a good way: The use of survey and assessment metadata in soft skills measurement
Beyond the trial: What impact does engagement and participatory practice have on HIV research outcomes?
6 steps for measuring equitable education access in crisis and conflict settings
How to conduct a replication study: What not to do
New modeling evidence offers an opportunity to mitigate the effects of climate change on water quality and socio-economic wellbeing
How to conduct a replication study: Which tests not witch hunts
Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing among kids in emergency contexts
Custom indicators track online outreach in Jamaica
Implementing reading lesson plans with high fidelity boosts Grade 1 student reading outcomes in the USAID/Madagascar Mahay Mamaky Teny program
What disability screening tools are available to use in low-resource schools?
Global health innovation: Revisiting Tim Mastro’s thoughts to mark the annual Triangle Global Health conference
3 ways to promote your published research
Self- versus provider-administered injectable contraceptives: Does method matter? It did in Malawi
New research underscores the connection between economics and HIV
Learning by doing: How to successfully apply the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach in your programs
Do college and career readiness programs make a difference? New alumni evidence says yes
The calculations are in: Digitizing salaries can save governments millions
From innovation-to-scale: Identifying innovative health interventions to better understand factors influencing their adoption and scale-up
Do UAVs have a role in improving viral suppression for people living with HIV in remote Kenya? A study design using system modeling in a GIS
FHI 360 science at AIDS 2018
The state of the evidence for household economic strengthening approaches for HIV outcomes
We should be able to evaluate interventions for the disabled
New research aims to understand how positive youth development interventions facilitate resilience
Cultivating HIV scientists for Africa: The INTEREST Conference, Kigali, Rwanda
What we learned about handwashing from published research in 2017
From concept to practice: 5 steps to measure education equity
Midline research reveals promising results for mLabour health application
Unpacking PLCs: What evidence do we have about professional learning communities and how can we produce more?
A mixed method research design for understanding how ICT tools assist climate change adaptation
New directions in portfolio reviews
What can we learn from fidelity of implementation monitoring models within early grade reading programs?
3 women leading the charge in ICT4D research
Quarterly recap of FHI 360’s blog on research and evaluation, January–March 2018
Addressing bias in our systematic review of STEM research
The science of humanitarian response in crisis settings
Recent research contributes to ending TB
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
Searching for social norms measures related to modern contraceptive use
Generating evidence for going to scale in multisectoral nutrition programming
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
Beyond DALYs: New measures for a new age of development
Outsmarting TB using research and collaboration
Increasing HIV detection with incentive-based, peer-referral approach known as Risk Tracing Snowball Approach
From the Red Book to the Blue Book: Advancing HIV surveillance among key populations
My tribute to Peter Lamptey’s lifelong contributions to global health
How fast is rapid? What I learned about rapid reviews at Global Evidence Summit
5 lessons for using youth video diaries for monitoring and evaluation
Five things you can do today to participate in open scholarship
New research on open government data in developing countries: What we can learn from case studies
20 years of advances in global health data: Now there’s an app for that
Evidence in a post-truth world from Global Evidence Summit
Research improves handwashing programs by uncovering drivers of behavior change
What I learned about evidence networks at the Global Evidence Summit
Call for papers: Optimizing the impact of key population programming across the HIV cascade
Show me the evidence: Cultivating knowledge on governance and food security
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
Exploring the parameters of “it depends” for estimating the rate of data saturation in qualitative inquiry
Paper-based data collection: Moving backwards or expanding the arsenal?
Four tips for turning big data into big practice
The science of beating HIV and AIDS
Book Review: Rigor Mortis – Harris says the rigor in science is dead
Teasing apart stigma and knowledge as barriers to HIV testing: A study with young Black adults in Durham, North Carolina
Mobile-based surveys: Can you hear me now?
Don’t waste evidence on the youth! Recent data highlights education and employment trends
LINKAGES research digest highlights ability of young key populations to access and remain in the HIV care cascade
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?
