LAUNCH PROTOCOL PUBLISHED

The Leading Advancements for the Uptake of Newborn and Community Health (LAUNCH) project aims to determine the impact of of partnering Orthodox priests with volunteer community health workers to do outreach to improve breast feeding, immunizations, and use of available newborn services to improve newborn survival.

SCALING-UP the SCOPE Model

Effective programs can fail to deliver impact if they have poor implementation at scale. In this publication, SCOPE Fellow Hakizimana and colleagues discuss a rigorous protocol to understand how to prepare for adoption of the SCOPE community mobilization model at scale.

FLAME Publication

Brandon Guthrie, Adino Tsegaye, Katherine Rankin, Judd Walson, and Getahun Alemie explore interventions needed to increase the utilization of antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery services to improve outcomes in FLAME’s publication.

USAID Evidence Summit on Strategic Religious Engagement

Partnering faith leaders with community health workers increases utilization of antenatal care and facility delivery services in Ethiopia: Results from the FLAME cluster randomized trial found here.

Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER)

The PEER Award is a $159,000 grant from the National Academy of Sciences given to SCOPE to increase knowledge of and access to life saving maternal and newborn services provided at public clinics through the partnership with community health workers and religious leaders in Ethiopia.

Involving religious leaders in HIV care and treatment at a university-affiliated hospital in Ethiopia: Application of formative inquiry

Are patients with HIV willing to receive HIV-related psychosocial support from religious leaders? SCOPE's former fellows, Meheret Edeshaw and Sarah Rawlins, explore the question in the most recent issue of the Global Public Health Journal. 

Evaluation of a pilot project and development of a scale up plan with a focus on sustainability. 

Emily Robinson, Kefyalew Addis, Getahun Asres, Katherine Pfizenmaier, Nancy Andrews, Peggy Sarjeant, Gail Johnson, Joachim Voss, Judd Walson

"Faith, Medicine, and Health: An Integrated Approach" Panel Discussion at ICASA 2015

SCOPE hosted a panel discussion at the 2015 International Conference for AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Harare, Zimbabwe.  the panel brought together professionals from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the United States to discuss innovative approaches for integrating faith leaders into the HIV/AIDS response.  

"Soul fathers as health educators: a pilot to improve anc and pmtct uptake in gondar, ethiopia" 

SCOPE fellow, Kristin Savage, won the Global Healthies Award for her research on SCOPE's model of involving religious leaders in health outreach and education of ANC and PMTCT care.