Research & Innovation
Our focus is on applied research and innovation that is aligned with the priority needs of countries. We work with countries to identify their applied research priorities and we support them from study design to implementation.
This work aims to understand the relationships between declines in childhood and maternal mortality, improvements in health system performance, and scale-up of key interventions in Burkina Faso.
Between 1998 and 2021, under-five and maternal mortality declined dramatically in Burkina Faso despite a challenging humanitarian context. This period coincided with the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene's undertaking of major reforms in the health sector.
AHADI is part of a collaboration with the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, Gates Foundation, the Institute for Disease Modeling, Northwestern University, and the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé that is working to understand the drivers behind declines in mortality, the impact of health systems improvements, and the remaining gaps.
This work is funded by the Gates Foundation.
AHADI is a member of a consortium of researchers working to better understand the epidemiology of severe malaria, including shifting age patterns and changing phenotypes in response to interventions.
This work is aimed at improving the estimation of the burden of malaria by phenotype and age, assessing the impact of new interventions such as malaria vaccines, and increasing the value of routine hospitalization data to inform country decision-making. This work will also inform the establishment of clinical sentinel sites for long-term tracking of severe malaria.
This work aims to systematically compare three malaria transmission models commonly used to inform subnational decision-making.
Mathematical models are increasingly being used by countries and by global partners to predict the potential impact of interventions. Many models have been independently developed, and in malaria, three (EMOD, malariasimulation, and OpenMalaria) have been used to inform decision-making at the country or global level. However, the extent to which the three models give similar or different results, under what conditions, and why, is not known.
AHADI is collaborating with the University of Western Australia, Imperial College, and the Institute for Disease Modeling to systematically characterize the behavior of these three models so that countries and the global community can better interpret model results, understand drivers of differences in model outputs, and identify common knowledge gaps where new data is needed to inform the models.
This work is funded by the Gates Foundation.
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