OUR WORK IN HEALTH

SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING FOR HEALTH IMPACT. By partnering with governments, organizations, and donors, we foster stronger, more resilient health systems worldwide. To do so, we apply a systems-thinking lens to implement contextually appropriate solutions to local problems. This involves supporting stakeholders in leading the optimization of their health systems and markets to efficiently and sustainably increase equitable access to high-quality health services, products, and information, and ultimately improve health outcomes.

PRIVATE SECTOR AND HEALTH MARKETS. We collaborate with the private sector to enhance competitiveness in local and global health markets, drive sustainable business models, and stimulate job creation so that the private sector can deliver more health products and services to the people who need them worldwide. Through our flagship Frontier Health Markets – Engage program, we leverage a network of local, regional, and specialized organizations to deliver technical assistance and support to private sector actors. Emphasizing capacity building, our partnering approach empowers local and regional organizations to develop and sustain healthy markets long term. We employ a market development approach (MDA) to support governments and local private sector to co-create solutions that empower the private health sector to reach its full potential to contribute to overall country health goals. With donor budgets shrinking and a push for localization, leveraging private sector knowledge and resources is crucial to ensuring a sustainable, locally-led healthcare ecosystem. Chemonics' health portfolio embraces private sector engagement through tailored capacity building, brokering partnerships, creating an enabling environment, and ensuring sustainable financing, guided by principles like early engagement, incentivization, and building on successful approaches.

HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH (HRH). Chemonics is at the forefront of advancing the global HRH agenda, leveraging expertise and research to develop fit-for-purpose and fit-to-practice health workforces that enhance health outcomes. We facilitate local HRH investment, bolster leadership and governance capacity, and enhance the performance of health workforces. Collaborating closely with local governments, PEPFAR, and the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, we assess and optimize the roles of community-based workers in HIV service delivery and malaria prevention. Employing evidence-based strategies, we build partnerships, invest in health systems, and cultivate a culture of data use to address health system challenges. Our person-centered, systems-thinking approach supports stakeholders at all levels in equipping frontline health providers and community health workers with skills, support, and resources. By refining the Health Worker Lifecycle Approach under the USAID flagship Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) Program, we have strengthened workforce capacity in more than 30 countries to ensure high-quality healthcare and achieve universal health coverage.

HEALTH SUPPLY CHAINS. Our end-to-end, comprehensive health supply chains provide lifesaving HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health and family planning, and maternal and child health commodities to more than 60 countries. We lead this effort through a consortium of diverse expert organizations and technical specialists that apply global best practices with increased efficiencies and cost savings to ensure an uninterrupted stream of high-quality health products and services for millions of people. Globally, we operate a state-of-the-art supply chain with a powerful management information system that enables a high degree of automation and nuanced analytics. We collaborate with governments, donors, and local stakeholders to build government-led supply networks that meet unique country requirements. We assist low- and middle-income countries in achieving stronger, more resilient health supply chains through focus areas like last-mile delivery, procurement, in-country technical assistance, local capacity strengthening, and quality assurance.

MALARIA. We’re advancing malaria’s elimination by developing multisector partnerships and responses, investing in innovative vector-control products and tools, entomologic and case surveillance systems, and placing communities at the center of the design and scale-up of high-impact interventions. We work with stakeholders at all levels of governance to build their ability to design, plan, and implement evidence-driven malaria control activities. In this way, these groups can mobilize resources in areas of greatest need across sectors and build responsive malaria systems that maximize health and economic impact.

LOCAL CAPACITY STRENGTHENING. We support countries on their paths to self-reliance by honing governments’ and local groups’ technical, financial, and management capacity to independently and sustainably oversee health programs. We recognize that strengthening capacity and commitment to champion health services and programs requires a shift from conventional formal training to more active, experiential learning. That is why we use multiple avenues to support government, civil society, and individual actors in advancing their health goals — from self-assessments, peer learning and research, and communities of practice to social and behavior change communications, hands-on mentoring and coaching, and adaptable tools and policy frameworks.

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY. We recognize that changing vector ecology means global health security cannot be achieved without creating equitable, resilient, and efficient health systems for all. In countries at risk for public health emergencies like pandemics and epidemics, Chemonics helps governments and donors prepare for and respond to emerging global health security threats using cutting-edge capacity strengthening approaches and sophisticated data analytics tools. We effectively engage the private sector, local organizations, and communities and base our overall implementation of programs on global best practices. From Ethiopia, where our Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project developed a practical guide to antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals, to Senegal, where our Building Resilient Health Systems project developed, designed, and supported a COVID-19 vaccine acceleration initiative across nine of 14 regions, Chemonics is adept at strengthening capacity to prepare for public health emergencies.

HIV and AIDS. We believe a generation free from HIV/AIDS is within reach. To achieve this, we build local stakeholder capacity at all levels — from national governments to communities — to implement evidence-based approaches and tools to improve HIV services and health systems in their contexts. Leveraging crosscutting in-house expertise, we design locally driven, accessible, cost-efficient, and sustainable approaches that control the spread of HIV and improve the lives of people living with HIV. We work in complex operating environments like northern Nigeria to provide direct service delivery assistance to ensure health facilities have the supplies, training, and tools to provide high-quality prevention and treatment services. We support governments in more than 60 countries in procuring and delivering critical supplies to prevent, identify, and treat HIV/AIDS, such as antiretroviral treatments, rapid diagnostic test kits, early infant diagnosis tests, condoms, and voluntary medical male circumcision commodities. Our programs work to ensure local governments have the data, tools, information, health workforce, financing, and high-impact, evidence-based service delivery models to attain and effectively sustain local HIV responses.

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC). At Chemonics, we’re helping realize ambitious yet achievable global goals for primary healthcare and universal health coverage. We focus on supporting stakeholders in identifying and addressing bottlenecks to delivering essential health services, particularly to under-resourced and hard-to-reach populations. Our approach integrates local resources from public, private, and civil society sectors to expand access to high-quality, high-impact services along the care continuum, aligning with the vision outlined in the Astana Declaration for primary healthcare in the 21st century. This vision emphasizes a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, combining multisector policy and action, empowered communities, and primary care as the core of integrated health services. By strategically engaging planners, providers, donors, users, and communities, we consider health impact across sectors and at all levels of governance. Our commitment extends to empowering the global health workforce and promoting the rights and protections of primary healthcare workers to guarantee high-quality services for all. Through alignment with national policies, strategies, and plans, we strive to improve health outcomes, strengthen primary healthcare systems, and foster multisector collaboration among stakeholders, including donors, political actors, and communities.