Oct 1, 2018

CPC’s MEASURE Evaluation has two new awards to combat tuberculosis and to generate evidence for health programs.

One, a five-year, $48 million award, Data for Impact (D4I), aims to strengthen the use of existing routine health data to generate rigorous evidence for decision making. The other, TB Data, Impact Assessment and Communications Hub (TB DIAH), a five-year award of more than $35 million, seeks to strengthen information systems for tuberculosis (TB) and build the capacity of low-resource countries for TB monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Both awards run from September 2018 to September 2023.

Heidi Reynolds, MPH, PhD, clinical associate professor in UNC’s Department of Maternal and Child Health, and director of evaluation for MEASURE Evaluation, will lead the new D4I project. 

The project director for TB DIAH is Stephanie Mullen, DrPH, MPH, a senior M&E advisor with MEASURE Evaluation at John Snow, Inc. (JSI), one of MEASURE Evaluation’s partner organizations. Jim Thomas, associate professor of epidemiology at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and MEASURE Evaluation’s director, will be the principal investigator for the new TB DIAH award.

Both awards will be implemented by MEASURE Evaluation, a global health project at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. MEASURE Evaluation is a global health project led by UNC through a five-year, $232 million cooperative agreement with USAID (UNC’s largest-ever research award).