Partner: Countdown to 2030, Gates Ventures, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Purpose: LiST was used to identify the health interventions responsible for reducing neonatal and maternal mortality in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, and Senegal. As part of the Exemplars in Global Health project, LiST contributed to identifying interventions, primarily during antenatal care and labor and delivery, that led to a decline in neonatal and maternal deaths. This and other analyses of health system policy and programs, financing, human resources, coverage of interventions, quality of care, and other contextual factors, documented why and how mortality reductions were achieved in countries.

Sponsor/Organization: Gates Ventures and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

LiST team members: Assanatou Bamogo, Yvonne Tam, Neff Walker

Period: 2020 - 2022

Partner: Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium, Imperial College London, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Purpose: LiST was one of the models used to estimate the impact of vaccination programs worldwide, to inform potential vaccine scale-up opportunities and investments. As part of the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium, our tool was used to model the impact of Hib, Pneumococcal, and Rotavirus vaccination in 100+ LMICs. Consortium-wide vaccine impact estimates were published here and here. We also participated meetings and working groups to compare inputs and methodology used for modeling between research groups in the Consortium, with the goal to improve quality of vaccine impact estimates generated.

Sponsor/Organization: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

LiST team members: Emily Carter, Yvonne Tam, Neff Walker

Period: 2016 - 2022

Partner: Eleanor Crook Foundation

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to use the Lives Saved Tool to run scenarios to investigate the impact and costs of different focused nutrition programs.  This project has also investigated the benefit-cost ratio of different nutrition intervention packages and has resulted in integrating both years of schooling and life time earnings as outputs of LiST.

LiST Team members: Neff Walker, Yvonne Tam, Hannah Tong, Robert Black

Period: January 2020 - present

Partner:   World Bank Global Financing Facility (GFF)

Purpose: The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) “supports low- and lower-middle-income countries to accelerate progress on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition, and strengthen financing and health systems for universal health coverage (UHC).”  GFF previously led an analysis that brought together leading RMNCAH specialists and economic modelers to examine the potential impact of the GFF and its country-led partnership.  This 2018 model was reviewed, adapted, and revised to support GFF’s strategy update and replenishment.

Sponsor/Organization: Funded by the World Bank Group.

LiST Team members: Victoria B. Chou, Angela Stegmuller, and Neff Walker

Period: April 2018 – present

Partner:  Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

Purpose: In collaboration with the Center for Humanitarian Health and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Lives Saved Tool team contributes to the development of the Humanitarian Lives Saved Approach (H-LiST).  This online resource provides a step-by-step process to inform recommendations about expanding coverage of key maternal and child health, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions in humanitarian settings.

Sponsor/Organization:  Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

LiST Team members: Victoria B. Chou and Angela Stegmuller

Period: October 2018 – present

Partner: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Purpose: The objective is to examine the impact of interventions on preventable stillbirths in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and in particular, the impact of scaling up interventions to avert preventable stillbirths and the effect of health service disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic on stillbirths in LMICs.

Sponsor/Organization:  Funded by United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

LiST Team members: Emily D. Carter and Victoria B. Chou

Period: July 2020 – present

Partner: Standing Together for Nutrition 

Purpose:  The intent of the project was to develop evidence-based estimates of the potential impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on maternal and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries.  As the first output of this group, two commentaries on possible nutritional impact of COVID-19 were published in Lancet in summer 2020.  These estimates used the Lives Saved Tool along with other models to provide provisional estimates of impact.  A more comprehensive set of analyses were then performed that focused not only on impact but also a set of mitigation strategies that low- and middle-income countries could use.  A manuscript based on this work is currently under review.

Sponsor/Organization.  This work was organized by the “Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium” an ad hoc group representing various organizations and researchers working in nutrition. 

List Team members:  Angela Stegmuller, Neff Walker, Robert Black, and Rebecca Heidkamp.

Period: March 2020 – present

Partner: Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission)

Purpose:  Gathering academics, policymakers, and health system stakeholders from 18 countries, the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission) focuses on improving health system quality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).  LiST analyses were included as part of group’s summative report and the global impact of poor quality of care was estimated in a modeling study of 81 LMICs.

Sponsor/Organization:  Funded by Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

LiST Team members: Victoria B. Chou, Mufaro Kanyangarara, and Neff Walker

Period: January 2018 – December 2019