Areas of Practice
HIV/AIDS
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.
Family Planning
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.
Safe Motherhood
Fuutures 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.
Child Health
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.
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