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Healthy populations with access to high-quality health services lead longer and more productive lives, resulting in stronger and more financially secure families, communities, and countries. To maximize our health impact, Chemonics takes an integrated, multi-sectoral approach to strengthening health systems by working with national and local governments, local NGOs, and the private sector. With the ultimate goal of making sustainable improvements to the health sector, we focus on building in-country leadership capacity, strengthening organizations, and promoting policies and innovative financing solutions that enable the health sector to meet the needs of its clients.

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Christina KramerChristina Kramer brings over 20 years of international public health experience. Currently serving as a Director at Chemonics, her areas of expertise include HIV/AIDS, family planning/reproductive health, population, health and environment programs and maternal health. At PATH she was the Team Leader for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, as well as holding other Senior Management positions. She has proven knowledge of USAID, including leading the implementation of large contracts and cooperative agreements. Her field work includes a long term position as Country Director in Brazil for Pathfinder International, and short term assignments in more than 20 countries. She speaks English and Portuguese natively, and she is proficient in Spanish. She holds an MBA with concentration in Health Care Management from Boston University. Read more

Nancy DiazNancy Diaz is a global health and development professional with experience working for various public and private international development organizations. Currently, she is the health practice manager where she maintains Chemonics’ institutional knowledge for its global health portfolio and serves as a conduit of strategic information for upcoming health new business. Prior to coming to Chemonics, Nancy worked on reproductive health issues for the National Abortion Federation and for a health civil society organization in Argentina where she focused on sexual health education. She has also worked on project and grants management supporting grassroots organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a B.A. in journalism and international relations from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in international affairs from American University’s School of International Service. Read more

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We work along the continuum of health care, from enhancing the supply chain for pharmaceuticals, to improving quality of health services in areas such as maternal and child health, HIV, and tuberculosis.

Combating HIV and AIDS: Chemonics brings diverse skills and wide-ranging experience to HIV/AIDS programming, working to provide services along the continuum of care from prevention to treatment. We work with marginalized populations to prevent infection, manage treatment and reduce stigma.

Community Mobilization: Community mobilization is a set of approaches that can help to increase demand-driven, accessible, and high-quality heathcare by enabling community members to plan, carry out, and evaluate health initiatives according to their own health priorities.

Fighting Malaria and Tuberculosis: Chemonics uses community-driven, quality-focused approaches to the fight against the spread of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria that exact a heavy toll on developing countries.

Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning: Chemonics works with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to increase access to high-quality maternal and child health (MCH), reproductive health (RH), and family planning (FP) services.

Health Systems and Finance: Chemonics’ work in health-sector reform and systems strengthening includes increasing access by strengthening finance and logistics systems, improving quality of care through policy work, application of franchising models, and public-private partnerships, and enhancing planning, monitoring, and decision-making.

Management Information Systems: Systems to support improvements in service delivery are key elements of Chemonics’ health projects throughout the world. Our approach to information management echoes these principles of quantification and pragmatism.

Private Sector Solutions in Health: By promoting high-quality, affordable private-sector solutions, Chemonics not only widens the arena of health-care provision and encourages investment, but also ensures that the services provided are meeting human needs in the most responsive ways.

Strengthening Organizational Capacity: We help organizations achieve their potential by offering a comprehensive approach to strategy development, action planning, and implementation. Our approaches to improving performance center on addressing an organization’s core strategy and operations to achieve robust, sustainable delivery of services.

Land and Resource Rights: Individuals with secure rights to land and homes have stability of place, and are more apt to lobby local government for improved water, sanitation, and health care systems. Secure rights can also reduce the spread of infectious diseases and stop the vicious cycle of infection and poverty in many countries. Empowerment can enable women to avoid high-risk sexual relationships, helping control the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases.