Contract No. GHS-I-00-03-00030-00

784 Memorial Drive
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Phone: 617 250 9500
Fax: 617 250 9090

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     Management Sciences for Health (MSH) brings over 32 years of solid expertise in Reproductive Health and Family Planning, Child Survival and Control of Infectious Diseases (including HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria) to TASC2 Global Health. MSH has vast experience managing long-term field projects that use multidisciplinary teams. MSH has worked in over 100 countries, offering short and long-term technical assistance in various areas including: health policy reform with expertise in the planning and implementation of decentralization initiatives, capacity-building in public and private sector organizations to improve delivery of child survival, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, and primary health care services, improved access to medicines and supplies, educating health care managers, providers and consumers by producing clear and timely publications, electronic media, conferences and training. MSH is also known and respected around the world for its work in pharmaceutical management and leadership development for health organizations and employees in the public and private sectors. 

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has the demonstrated capacity to respond rapidly to major initiatives in TASC2. Under TASC1, MSH has undertaken seven TASC orders totaling more than $18 million. These assignments cover a wide range in duration, geography, technical content,and complexity: from a two-month evaluation of humanitarian aid in Honduras to a 3.5 year immunization project in Bangladesh. MSH also offers a track record of outstanding success in Performance-based Contracting and Grant-Making with NGOs, including current program experience in Haiti, Afghanistan, and Tanzania.

Our partners in TASC2 offer complementary expertise to the consortium. The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonprofit organization with over 50 years’ experience in social and behavioral science research. The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) represents national, state, city, and local laboratories. APHL works with a diverse array of public- and private-sector partners in formulating and advocating for sound public health and environmental policies and improving public health laboratory practices at home and abroad. Development Alternatives, Inc. provides economic development and policy solutions to governments, businesses, and NGOs worldwide. One of their main focus areas is multisectoral responses to HIV/AIDS.

Initiatives, Inc. is a small women-owned business that aims to improve the managerial and technical capacity of health professionals at HIV/AIDS and family planning health centers and in communities around the world. SATELLIFE is a world leader in the adaptation, use, and dissemination of technology to increase access to quality information in the most remote locations. The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University specializes in food and nutrition policy, program development, and the biological sciences of nutrition.

When an appropriate task order specifies Geographic Code #935, MSH will call on our collaborating partner, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. The Alliance was founded in 1993 to improve support for community action on prevention, care, and impact mitigation of AIDS in developing countries.