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06/05/2026

For many people in rural communities, getting to a doctor's appointment involves long drives and disconnected services.

In the second part of our rural health series, we look at how we can bring care directly to patients. From expanding telehealth to launching mobile care units and integrating local services, our teams are working to give families more choices for care that fits their needs.

Read Part 2: https://www.jsi.org/rural-lifelines-bringing-care-to-people/

You can also read Part 1, which focuses on supporting our rural health care workers: https://www.jsi.org/rural-lifelines-supporting-health-care-workforce/

Transportation is a great challenge to rural communities’ access to health care. What if health services are brought to the people who need them most?

06/04/2026

When a health crisis or service gap occurs, high-level policies are only as good as the logistics behind them. JSI’s latest newsletter focuses on the practical mechanics of moving from strategy to field-tested action.

Explore how our teams are translating plans into reality, from pandemic readiness to localized immunization and rural health delivery: https://mailchi.mp/jsi/may-2026

Strong health systems require moving past high-level policy to solve the real-world logistics of delivery and integration, especially in hard-to-reach communities. Whether adapting to rural hospital closures in the United States, activating rapid pandemic response frameworks, or reaching missed chil...

06/03/2026

One of the greatest barriers to health care, especially in rural areas, is transportation. Kate Lena, a senior technical associate at JSI, is supporting providers to streamline their mobile care workflows to meet people where they are.
Learn more: https://www.jsi.org/rural-lifelines-bringing-care-to-people/

06/02/2026

School-based and paper-based tracking methods can sometimes face limitations in reaching mobile or remote populations.

JSI partnered with Ministry of Health,Ethiopia to introduce a digital immunization management system. Instead of waiting for manual reports, health workers can now use digital microplans to locate unvaccinated children and monitor vaccine cold chain conditions. This model serves as a blueprint to help manage routine immunization schedules for millions of infants nationwide.

Learn more: https://www.jsi.org/ethiopia-digital-immunization-supervision-tool/

JSI designed and rolledout a digital immunization-focused supportive supervision tool that enables digital microplanning across Ethiopia.

05/29/2026

Accessing health care in rural communities often means navigating long travel distances and fragmented services. Part 2 of our "Rural Lifelines" series moves from supporting the workforce to exploring practical, person-centered strategies that bring care directly to patients.

Discover how our teams are supporting state and local telehealth expansion, mobile care units, and service integration. These efforts give patients more choice and ensure care is delivered in a way that fits their daily lives.

Read Part 2: https://www.jsi.org/rural-lifelines-bringing-care-to-people/
Missed Part 1 on supporting the health care workforce? Catch up here: https://www.jsi.org/rural-lifelines-supporting-health-care-workforce/

Transportation is a great challenge to rural communities’ access to health care. What if health services are brought to the people who need them most?

05/28/2026

How do we ensure life-saving care reaches communities when geography, climate, or infrastructure stand in the way? It requires focusing on the practical mechanics of delivery.

From launching boat-based vaccine outreach in Nigeria to using telehealth to counter rural hospital closures in the United States, our teams are working to ensure health services are reliable and enduring.

Read our latest newsletter to explore these field-tested strategies and learn about our upcoming presence at the Global Health Security Conference and International SBCC Summit: https://mailchi.mp/jsi/may-2026

Strong health systems require moving past high-level policy to solve the real-world logistics of delivery and integration, especially in hard-to-reach communities. Whether adapting to rural hospital closures in the United States, activating rapid pandemic response frameworks, or reaching missed chil...

05/27/2026

To reduce product wastage and stockouts at "last mile" facilities, JSI’s Strengthening Service Delivery project and inSupply Health partnered with Ministry of Health,Ethiopia to launch Pharmacy Performance Monitoring Teams in March 2025. In these pilot sites, multidisciplinary teams used data visualization to isolate supply gaps and coordinate 27 commodity transfers with neighboring clinics, nearly eliminating understocking at Biyo Health Center. Across the pilot, commodity reporting rates surged from 21% to 82%, and inventory accuracy reached 95%, demonstrating how a routine data-use culture directly secures medicine availability for patients.

Read the story: https://www.jsi.org/transforming-last-mile-health-care-data-use/

A health system is only as strong as its ability to deliver life-saving commodities to the point of care.

05/26/2026

While school-based strategies are highly effective for routine immunization, they face limitations in reaching out-of-school youth, especially those who live in remote or rugged terrain. This challenge became a practical barrier to full coverage, during a recent national HPV vaccine campaign in Ethiopia's mountainous regions.

To address this, JSI and Girl Effect, working with the Ministry of Health,Ethiopia, adjusted the strategy by integrating HPV vaccination into routine services at permanent village health posts. Backed by local-language community outreach, health extension workers identified and vaccinated over 2,000 girls in just three months. This hybrid approach is now serving as a blueprint for nationwide implementation to help close gaps in rural areas.

Read how village-based care is strengthening routine immunization: https://www.jsi.org/hpv-vaccines-ethiopia-remote-communities/

JSI committed to tailored demand generation approaches for out-of-school girls, while integrating HPV vaccination into routine immunization services.

05/22/2026

How can data visualization improve hospital operations? After integrating new dashboards into their records system, leadership at Amin General Hospital in Addis Ababa identified an underutilized bed occupancy rate of 46%. By implementing clear admission protocols and new referral partnerships, they increased occupancy to 60% by March 2026. This collaboration across 60 private facilities in Ethiopia shows that when data is treated as a strategic asset, it optimizes both clinical workflows and the bottom line. Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21x2JjP

JSI worked with Ethiopia's Ministry of Health to develop a Health Management Information System implementation guideline tailored for private sector use.

05/21/2026

The last decade has brought major investments in the building blocks of health security. But far too often, critical components are implemented in a fragmented or piecemeal manner, limiting their ability to support timely and coordinated actions.

Over the coming months, we will share a series of articles titled “Operationalizing Global Health Security,” which explores three pillars that underpin effective outbreak management: preventing outbreaks where possible, detecting threats early when they occur, and responding rapidly to contain them.

Read our first installment: https://brnw.ch/21x2HaG

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The future of global health security will not be defined by new plans or frameworks, but by whether existing systems can act—quickly, coherently, and at scale—when the next outbreak begins.