The Systems Analysis & Improvement Approach: Applying Systems Engineering to Optimize Complex Care Cascades
The Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach (SAIA) is a multi-step, evidence-based intervention used by health providers and managers to systematically identify and address barriers to health care delivery and patient flow using industrial and systems engineering design.
Mental Health Screening & Treatment to Improve HIV Outcomes
HAI is piloting the use of the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) for mental health screening within HIV-positive populations to improve HIV treatment outcomes.
Complex TB Case Detection & Management
Complex DR-TB Case Management HAI is testing a tablet-based intervention that could help National Tuberculosis Programs curb drug-resistance, prevent adverse treatment effects, and build tuberculosis capacity among health providers nationwide. Two common adverse...
SAIA-Hypertension: Integrating Care Cascades
SAIA-Hypertension: Integrating care cascades HAI is evaluating the evidence-based Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach (SAIA) to optimize hypertension screening and treatment services for people living with HIV in Mozambique. Undiagnosed and untreated...
Evidence-to-Action: Building Institutional Research Capacity
Evidence-to-Action: Building Institutional Research Capacity In Mozambique, HAI partners closely with the Mozambican National Insitutes of Health, and the Beira Operations Research Center (CIOB) to offer both formal training in applied research methods as well as...
Southern African Research Consortium for Mental Health Integration
Together with academic, government and civil sector partners in Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania, HAI is building local capacity to integrate and scale up evidence-based mental health services into primary health systems.
Identifying Gaps in HIV Treatment Retention for Pregnant Mozambicans under B+
Identifying Gaps in HIV Treatment Retention for Pregnant Mozambicans under B+ HAI’s Option B+ study showed low-cost inputs and systems adjustments can meaningfully improve retention of HIV-positive mothers in antiretroviral treatment (ART), especially when combined...
SAIA-Mental Health: Systematizing Detection
HAI is adapting and implementing the evidence-based Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach (SAIA) to improve screening and treatment for three common mental health disorders in Central Mozambique.
SAIA-PMTCT: Optimizing the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission
SAIA-PMTCT: Optimizing the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission HAI faculty at the UW led the research that established the effectiveness, adaptability, and scalability of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach (SAIA) to improve service delivery for...
Assessors: Expertise embedded in the public system
Assessors: expertise embedded in the public system Assessor is a Portuguese term used by HAI to refer to HAI technical advisors who work directly within national ministry of health offices, providing technical expertise and direct support to ministry officials. One...