Mortality

  • Women’s, reproductive, infant, and child health

    After years of improvement, the slowing pace of progress across many reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes has demonstrated that some populations are particularly challenging to reach with life-saving products, programs, and interventions. In general, the public health community has found it difficult to define and describe these hard-to-reach populations because there…

  • Healthcare systems & outcome surveillance

    Understanding how delivery systems improve health outcomes and where they fail to do so is critical for increasing their efficiency and efficacy.  All aspects of global health, from eradication efforts to outbreak control to good nutrition, rely on properly functioning healthcare delivery systems. IDM uses quantitative methodology to support system improvement, including improving methods for…