How We Work
Our Approach
We apply a strategic and interconnected approach to achieving our goals.
Each project starts with practical questions and involves conversations with communities, providers and policymakers to help us understand shortfalls in health care.
We design studies and harness the power of collaborative research to evaluate simple, affordable technologies and person-centered models of care.
We publish our research in scientific journals and disseminate the findings to diverse audiences, including researchers, providers, policymakers and health advocates.
We translate our research and programmatic knowledge into compelling resources for use by others to influence and impact policy and practice in the United States and globally.
Collaboration with a range of partners is integral to our model of work. We engage with Ministries of Health, community-based organizations, hospitals and clinic/hospital networks, social marketing organizations, universities, pharmaceutical entities, global norm-setting bodies, research organizations and independent providers and advocates.
Our Methods
At Gynuity, we:
- Take risks in all areas of our work, including the topics we study, our partnerships and where we work.
- Advocate with a diverse set of partners and policymakers to advance new evidence-based protocols, clinical care guidelines, standards of care, and interventions.
- Use evidence to challenge the status quo by creating progressive, person-centered models of care; by helping to reshape clinical guidelines; and by advocating for policy and practice changes at the local, regional, national and international levels.
- Use our voice to tackle difficult issues, promote new ideas and influence change.
- Train and provide high-quality technical assistance to providers, governments and health care systems so that they can incorporate new knowledge into policy and practice.
- Employ clear and effective communications tools, including publications, presentations, and social media to share our research and programmatic findings with providers, policymakers and program implementers.
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Research
Research
Women and girls around the world lack access to low-cost, easy-to-deliver medicines and tools that can improve the safety and quality of maternal and reproductive health services. Evidence is needed to demonstrate that simple, safe and effective reproductive and maternal health technologies have the power to transform lives and improve outcomes for women and girls in dense, urban communities, as well as hard-to-reach settings, including those living in remote or sparsely populated areas and in humanitarian settings.
We believe that if we harness the power of establishment tools (in this case, scientific evidence and understanding), share our findings in reputable scientific journals, and collaborate with thought-leaders, we can create a path for more effective, more efficient and, ultimately, better services.
Learn more about our achievements and recent projects in the high impact areas of maternal and reproductive health including medical abortion, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and health system strengthening in sexual and reproductive health, and pregnancy and childbirth care.
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Partnerships for Policy and Practice
Partnerships for Policy and Practice
We understand that it is critical to take research and use it to influence policy change. We do this by speaking at professional conferences, hosting convenings and publishing our work. We collaborate with a range of partners–at the international and national levels and locally, on-the-ground, in communities–to create the synergies necessary to trigger change in policy and practice.
Learn more about our achievements and recent projects in the high impact areas of maternal and reproductive health including medical abortion, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and health system strengthening in sexual and reproductive health, and pregnancy and childbirth care. -
Communications for Impact
Communications for Impact
We recognize that strategic communications are critical to increase the impact of our research and programmatic findings. While strengthening our use of traditional methods, we are also using a range of digital communications channels to communicate more actively and frequently with our target audiences and amplify our organizational voice to influence policy and practice. To achieve this goal, we will bolster our internal communications capacities and increase our communications partnerships.
Learn more about our achievements and recent projects in the high impact areas of maternal and reproductive health including medical abortion, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and health system strengthening in sexual and reproductive health, and pregnancy and childbirth care. -
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