Get to Know Our Partners

ANSIRH

ANSIRH

Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) is a collaborative research group that conducts innovative, rigorous, multidisciplinary research on issues related to people’s sexual and reproductive lives. ANSIRH believes in the importance of research in advancing evidence-based policy, practice and public discourse to improve reproductive wellbeing.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. The foundation supports GHS work in malaria elimination, maternal and child health, primary health care, reproductive health and more.

Born Free Africa

Born Free Africa

Born Free Africa is a philanthropic initiative with the sole objective of ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV, creating the first AIDS-free generation. Born Free partners with governments and business communities to recruit, develop, and empower local talent who work behind the scenes to drive change within their own governments. GHS has a strategic partnership agreement to support ongoing efforts for Born Free Africa’s work in Kenya.

Care India

Care India

CARE is a not-for-profit organization that has worked for more than 65 years on alleviating poverty and social injustice in India. Through projects in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response, CARE India’s goal is to empower women and girls from poor and marginalized communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods.

Centers for Disease Control

Centers for Disease Control

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the nation’s health protection agency, saving lives and protecting people from threats. The CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when need arises. The CDC supports IGHS work on economic modeling of disease prevention, HIV/STI surveillance materials, and malaria eradication.

Elimination 8

Elimination 8

The E8 Regional Initiative is a coordinated, eight-country effort to achieve malaria elimination in four countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland) by 2020 and pave the way for progressive elimination in four additional countries (Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) by 2030.

Gilead

Gilead

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that addresses unmet medical needs for patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. They partner with academic, business and local communities to develop innovative medicines and deliver them as efficiently as possible. Gilead supports our education programs and research projects across IGHS.

The Global Fund

The Global Fund

The Global Fund aims to achieve a world free of the burden of HIV, TB and malaria through investing for impact. Impact is measured in lives saved, rates of disease decline and vitality and economic strength of communities and countries where the burden of disease is retreating. The Global Fund has supported IGHS projects in HIV, malaria elimination and TB around the globe.

HEAL Initiative

HEAL Initiative

HEAL (Health, Equity, Action and Leadership) trains and transforms front-line health professionals by building a community dedicated to serving the underserved. HEAL believes that health is achievable for even the most vulnerable populations in the world when the principles of equity, justice and solidarity are applied.

ICAP

ICAP

ICAP touches every part of the health system wherever it works, addressing challenges in health governance, human resources, health financing, infrastructure, laboratory services, supply chain and pharmacy services, clinical services and health information. IGHS works with ICAP on population-based HIV infection assessments.

KEMRI

KEMRI

Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) is a state corporation that acts as a national body responsible for carrying out health research in Kenya. KEMRI’s mission is to improve health and quality of life through research, capacity building, innovation and service delivery.

Makerere School of Public Health

Makerere School of Public Health

Our partnership with Makerere University in Uganda emphasizes strengthening the capacity of Makerere faculty to conduct independent research. We co-direct the Makerere University-UCSF research collaboration evaluating HIV, TB, malaria and nutrition, and conduct training workshops that have resulted in well-trained local experts providing ongoing capacity.

Marie Stopes International

Marie Stopes International

For more than 40 years, Marie Stopes International (MSI) has helped women all over the world to have children by choice by providing contraception and safe abortion. In 2018 in 37 countries across the world, 12.3 million unintended pregnancies were prevented, 6.4 million unsafe abortions averted, and 30.2 million women were using MSI-provided contraception.

Makerere School of Public Health

National University of Rwanda School of Public Health

Our East Africa Preterm Birth Initiative works with the National University of Rwanda School of Public Health to model and study the effectiveness of group antenatal care to reduce instances of preterm birth.

Novartis Foundation

Novartis Foundation

The Novartis Foundation is a philanthropic organization pioneering innovative healthcare models that have a transformational impact on the health of the poorest populations. They work hand-in-hand with local and global partners to catalyze scalable and sustainable healthcare models that improve access and health outcomes, and have worked with us to tackle malaria.

PEPFAR

PEPFAR

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the US Government initiative to help save the lives of those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world. PEPFAR is driven by a shared responsibility among donor and partner nations and others to make smart investments to save lives. As the face of the epidemic has changed, PEPFAR has moved from emergency response to promotion of sustainable country programs; example: GSI teams in Mozambique work extensively with the PEPFAR Clinical Care and Treatment Team.

PRONTO International

PRONTO International

PRONTO International aims to optimize care during birth by developing and implementing innovative training strategies for healthcare providers that act as a catalyst for individual, team and system change. PRONTO provides realistic obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation training, assists local teams in diagnosis of system barriers and identification of achievable strategies, and participates in implementation research to refine training modules to improve outcomes for mothers, babies and healthcare providers. PRONTO works with our Maternal, Newborn and Child Research Collaborative on projects in Guatemala, Kenya, India and Uganda, using mentors and new evaluation tools to measure the effectiveness of the training.

San Francisco Department of Public Health

San Francisco Department of Public Health

The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) protects and promotes the health of all San Franciscans. An active IGHS partner, they were key in the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and promotion of health equity through the rebuilding of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. SFDPH staff assisted IGHS with time-location sampling (TLS) projects in Brazil, China, Mozambique, San Francisco and Zimbabwe, and locally on the Committee for TB Elimination and Control.

Sean Parker Foundation

Sean Parker Foundation

The Parker Foundation focuses on three areas: Life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. The foundation targets very big specific problems that are ‘tip-able,’ with a path to victory where a catalytic impact can be made. They support our research in vector control to eliminate malaria.

USAID

USAID

The United States Agency for International Development partners to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing security and prosperity. Rather than impose, USAID seeks to empower and support through collaboration and has been effective in helping us to reduce the burden of disease.

World Health Organization

World Health Organization

The goal of the World Health Organization is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side-by-side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. UCSF and GHS do extensive work with WHO on publications and research; for example, developing WHO health guidelines for treatment of HIV and TB and HIV case reporting in Morocco.

Our Partners