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The Health Innovation Team seeks to improve health equity worldwide by developing scalable innovations that build upon successful community-based primary health models and target vulnerable populations.
 
Specifically, the team coordinates applied research projects and supports on-the-ground field demonstrations in partnership with an expanding base of Future Generations organizations and alumni, both domestically and internationally.
 
Innovations build upon two decades of organizational experience and lessons in community empowerment and capacity building methodologies. The core lessons that drive our creativity are that:

  1. Strengthening social capital at all levels has a direct positive impact on community health.
  2. Relationships among mothers, community members, organizations, institutions, and government are essential for the application and delivery of technical and behavioral interventions.

Future Generations experience includes training networks of community health workers and strengthening community-government partnerships for health in Afghanistan, China, India, and Peru. Future Generations has also played a significant role in influencing national health strategies and policy in Afghanistan and Peru.
 
A collection of new stories, publications, web pages, and multimedia related to Future Generations work in health are listed below. For more information, contact Nicky Bassford, Health Innovation Team Leader at nbassford@future.org.

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John Hopkins Public Health Magazine features video of Dr. Carl Taylor on "The Origins of International Health"

Posted on Thu, 2011 – 10 – 20 10:49

As part of their Online Extra's section, John Hopkins Public Health Magazine recently featured a video on the late Dr. Carl Taylor on "The Origins of International Health."

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Community Management Improves Rural Primary Health Center

Posted on Tue, 2011 – 08 – 16 11:26



In East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh, India, near the mouth of the Brahmaputra River in the town of Sille, a primary health center serves six major rural villages and a growing migrant population of more than 10,000 people. The surrounding indigenous population is within a 12km walk over difficult terrain to the primary health center, which was seldom used and was in such a dilapidated condition that curative and preventative care was practically non-existent.

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Community Health Agents in Peru Strengthen Their Communities

Posted on Tue, 2011 – 06 – 14 08:50

Near Cusco and Machu Picchu in the district of Pitumarca, community health agents (CHAs) work closely with community leaders and government to improve maternal and child health. In 2009, the government recognized Pitumarca as a “Best Practice in Public Management” that has improved health and living conditions in one of the poorest districts of Peru.

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