About PHNI

The Population, Health and Nutrition Information (PHNI) Project is a five-year program of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for Global Health. Jorge Scientific Corporation, with the Futures Group International and John Snow, Inc., manages the PHNI Project. Through highly diversified and effective services, PHNI provides the Bureau for Global Health and other USAID offices tools to measure program performance and educate a variety of audiences on national, regional and global trends and their implications for USAID programs.

PHNI provides expertise in applications development, knowledge resources management, web and online services, international health analysis, and communications and outreach.

The Project’s technically advanced and integrated solutions offer ready access to critical information needed to plan and carry out programmatic mandates. The Project helps the Bureau for Global Health define its information needs, preferences and goes on to develop and maintain systems that are practical and easy to use. This is achieved through customized software applications, database creation and maintenance, and a wide range of Web and online tools.

PHNI’s communications services are designed to support USAID by informing multiple target audiences about global health issues through the strategic development and production of online and print publications. In an ongoing effort to communicate effectively to key decision-makers, opinion leaders, the development community and humanitarian groups, PHNI develops materials to convey both results and the message behind them.

Public health analysts at PHNI combine education, training, and expertise in international health disciplines, as well as field experience in developing countries, to meet USAID’s requests for technical assistance. Analyses range in scope from global to regional to country-specific and may cover such topics as child survival trends, priority-country demographic trends, maternal health and other important indicators of the health and well-being of developing-country populations.

The breadth of PHNI’s capabilities allows the Project to deliver solutions to a wide range of information needs and audiences.