Futures Institute staff has been involved in a wide range of activities related to HIV/AIDS, developing models such as the AIDS Impact Model (AIM) used to build political consensus in support of effective AIDS interventions; the PMTCT model to assess the cost-effectiveness of different strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the Goals model for costing and resource allocation for HIV/AIDS programs. They have also developed a number of evaluation tools including the Policy Environment Score, the AIDS Program Effort Index, the Survey of Coverage of Essential HIV/AIDS Services, and the HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination index. They have participated in efforts to estimate the global resources required for HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, and are key participants in epidemiological and costing modeling efforts for HIV/AIDS at the national and global levels. They have also been involved with efforts to assess the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Geographic experience includes sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Futures Institute staff has experience in assessing population and health issues in developing countries and in providing technical assistance in policy analysis and awareness-raising through applied analysis, presentations and computer modeling. They have worked on a variety of policy and service projects including POLICY, RAPID (Resources for the Awareness of Population Impacts on Development), OPTIONS (for Population Policy), SOMARC (Social Marketing for Change), and the EVALUATION (of Family Planning Impact) Project. They have substantial experience in developing and applying population-related models to developing country problems, including developing the RAPID concept - an approach that combined microcomputer technology, interactive models and a focus on reaching political audiences. They have also developed a number of important population and health policy tools including the classic RAPID model; DemProj, a demographic projection models; and FamPlan, a model to assess future program and funding requirements to attain policy objectives. Geographical expertise is widespread, and includes sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

Futures Institute staff has been involved with both evaluation and modeling efforts in the area of maternal health. They participated in the development and implementation of three rounds of the Maternal and Neonatal Program effort Index (MNPI), and the Safe Motherhood Model (SMM), which includes interactions with neonatal health. They have provided assistance to programs in numerous countries, where policy presentation teams have used computer-based presentations successfully to reach the key stakeholders in the decision-making process, and assist in the overall strategic planning process for safe motherhood programs. They are also involved with basic research in re-positioning family planning by exploring the linkages between increasing contraceptive use and decreases in maternal mortality. Geographic experience consists of country applications in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Futures Institute has experience in examining the relationship between neonatal mortality and safe motherhood interventions, in the form of the Safe Motherhood Model (SMM). In addition, they are currently involved in an effort to incorporate evidence-based decision-making regarding child survival interventions into a Spectrum module, building on work performed by the Child Health Epidemiological Reference Group (CHERG). The result will be an easy-to-use, transparent model to assist strategic planning efforts for both maternal and child health, to allocate limited resources more efficiently.