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Management Sciences for Health
784 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 250-9500
Fax: (617) 250-9090
Project Director: Malcolm Bryant
mbryant@msh.org
TASC3@msh.org
www.msh.org
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by closing the gap between what is known and what is done in public health. MSH's nine partners include: AIDS Health Foundation, BroadReach Healthcare, LLC, Counterpart International, Equal Access, Futures Group, Howard Delafield International, International Program Assistance, Inc., MIDEGO, and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
With its multinational partners, MSH works with USAID Missions and Bureaus, health care policymakers, managers, providers, and consumers in the public and private sectors to provide expertise and proven solutions in:
- Family planning and reproductive health
- Maternal and child health
- Health system strengthening
- Pharmaceutical management
- HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases
- Management and leadership
We support positive social impact by:
- Helping pubic health leaders make effective management decisions
- Supporting the local vision and responding to local needs
- Implementing large-scale responses to public health threats
- Engaging the most qualified technical experts
- Providing health leaders with the tools and techniques they need to manage critical resources: people, medicine, money, and information
As a holder of IQC contracts for both TASC1 and TASC2, MSH has effectively implemented a wide range of task orders, from short-term evaluations of work to multipartner technical assistance teams over extended periods of time. As a lead partner, MSH has consistently demonstrated the ability to effectively manage projects simultaneously across wide technical and geographic areas and effectively work with its partners. Each partner offers complimentary expertise and high standards of practice, with strong institutional capacity, outstanding personnel and past performance, specifically:
- AIDS Health Foundation (AHF) is the largest nonprofit provider of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and care and treatment services in the United States. AHF focuses on quality assurance and utilization review to ensure high quality while containing costs. Its managed care programs are performance-based and its contractors have estimated millions of dollars of savings each year.
- BroadReach Healthcare, LLC is dedicated to expanding access to high quality health care services across the globe. Through its innovative public-private partnerships and "systems approach," BroadReach focuses on developing unique, highly scaleable health care delivery and finance systems — particularly in resource poor environments. BroadReach has particular experience and expertise in the establishment of large-scale antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programs for HIV/AIDS patients.
- Counterpart International has 41 years of experience implementing quality programming in Senegal, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Namibia, Sudan, Uganda, India, Guatemala, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Vietnam, Pacific Islands, and Ukraine. Working with local nongovernmental organizations, Ministries of Health, and communities, Counterpart International focuses on integrated interventions to address maternal health and child survival, neonatal health, nutrition and breastfeeding, immunization, pneumonia and diarrhea case management, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health and family planning. Employing a unique approach to training communities and local organizations, Counterpart International ensures that programs are locally appropriated and sustainable.
- Equal Access conducts effective programs — programs that now reach 15 million people in over six countries — to improve the health of people in underserved communities with limited or no access to reliable outside information. Combining engaging, educational radio show broadcasts via both satellite and FM partner stations with outreach and capacity building activities, Equal Access' multifaceted approach heightens maximum program impact and behavior change.
- Futures Group specializes in the design and implementation of public health and social programs for developing countries. Futures Group works with government agencies, foundations, corporations, and nonprofit organizations to address conditions that compromise the well-being of people around the world. Futures Group helps countries and communities build local capacity and forge public-private partnerships. Using this approach, partners become better equipped to make well-informed decisions and address a multitude of complex health and social issues. Futures Group has worked on projects in more than 100 countries.
- Howard Delafield International (HDI) is a women-owned international marketing and communications consulting firm. HDI designs and implements communication/marketing and private sector interventions on behalf of foreign aid agencies, nonprofit organizations, private sector companies, and developing country governments whose missions include promoting health, environmental conservation, and economic and market development.
- International Program Assistance, Inc. (IPA) is a woman-owned business. IPA Inc. provides a number of grants management and organizational capacity building services, including designing grants management systems, strengthening management systems, addressing sustainability, forging networks and alliances, advising on resource control and expansion, and training.
- MIDEGO is a minority-owned small business. MIDEGO's mission is to assist countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals, particularly goals three, four, five, and six, and reduce maternal and child mortality, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and promote reproductive health, family planning, gender equality, and women's empowerment.
- The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University is a premiere institution in research, teaching, and professional activities in food and nutrition policy, program development, and in the biological sciences of nutrition. Faculty and professional staff have had major responsibility for developing the national nutrition program of Bangladesh, an integrated nutrition/health/food security intervention whose success as a pilot program justified its expansion to national scale, with World Bank funding.
MSH's systems for results tracking, monitoring, and evaluation are well developed and will be brought to bear on any work issued under IQC. With our partners, we will ensure that projects and programs are driven by field priorities and needs. We will focus interventions on standard setting, quality improvement, and international exchange.
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