If anyone can tell the dramatic story of Shebedino District’s health information system (HIS) transformation, it is Tesfaye Beyene, Shebedino Health Office head. Tesfaye has been at the heart of the…
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Building Local and Equitable Digital Health Interventions in Ethiopia
Digital health interventions receive significant global funder attention and support to improve health outcomes and the quality of care in lower-income countries, but many of these programs falter...
Catalyzing Change: Scaling up an Information Use Culture across Ethiopia’s Health System
Since 2017, the Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP) has been an active partner in the implementation of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Information Revolution (IR), a national strategic initiative to...
Retrieving and Using Legacy Health Data to Make Evidence-Based Decisions in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
Ethiopia’s health information management tools and practices have evolved as the health environment shifts and technology advances. One example was the standardization of the routine health...
Non-monetary Incentives Cultivate Data Use Culture in Ethiopia’s Zewditu Memorial Hospital
In 2019, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MOH) and Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau selected the nearly 100-year-old Zewditu Memorial Hospital as a learning site for the implementation...
Ethiopia’s Experience: Empowering and improving the use of quality data for evidence-based decisions through capacity building and mentorship
Mr. Gizachew Gishu is head of the Hawella health center, one of the four health centers in the Hawella district of the Sidama region in Ethiopia. During his tenure at the health center, he grappled...
Using Quality Data to Improve Health Service Outcomes
The Jinella Health Center serves nearly 30,000 residents of the city of Harar in the Harari National Regional State, Ethiopia. It was lauded for its response to a typhus outbreak and increasing...
Improving Health Service Delivery in Ethiopia through Strengthened Performance Monitoring Teams
On the morning of March 9, 2021, Lemlem Alemu, who was nine months pregnant, was attending her last antenatal care appointment at the Aboker Health Center in the Harari Region of Ethiopia. She was...
Ethiopia Data Use Partnership Jointly Hosts the First IT Internship Program Appreciation and Exit Ceremony
The Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP) jointly hosted the IT internship Program Appreciation and Exit Ceremony at the Skylight Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The DUP is implemented by JSI Research...