What we do?
REGIONAL CALL FOR SOCIAL INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH
Thanks to the support of PAHO, we hold calls every two years to identify, recognize, and showcase social initiatives in health that contribute to the social transformation in health of communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. We always seek initiatives with a high degree of innovation, community participation, potential scalability, and positive impact on the health of communities, according to the focus of each call.
This call was co-led with the Pan American Health Organization and the National Autonomous University of Honduras.
Focus: Social innovations in health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Focus: OPS SIHI-LAC 2023 Social Innovation Call.
VIRTUAL COFFEE AND EVENTS
The Virtual Coffee is a bimonthly webinar that brings together people and institutions from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to exchange ideas and experiences of social innovation in health. We create a space for collective learning around the theme and other related topics such as community health, digital health, crowdfunding, community-based methodologies, among others.
Register here to receive the invitation to the upcoming sessions.
TRAINING
We offer training opportunities to strengthen the capacities of researchers, social leaders, and individuals interested in community health processes, community participation, sustainability of social projects, social innovation in health, implementation research, and related topics. Our goal is to strengthen capacities in the Latin America and Caribbean region to generate innovative, participatory processes that contribute to the social transformation in health of communities.
Community-Based Research Methodologies
Communicating and Capitalizing on Social Innovation Projects in Health
Design Thinking
- Implementation Research MOOC
We have developed a multidisciplinary internship program to train leaders in social innovation in health with the ability to contribute to improving the quality of life of communities and the regional ecosystem. Throughout the program, activities related to generating knowledge in social innovation in health, co-creation of educational materials, fieldwork for community research, and Social Knowledge Appropriation are developed.
National Student Internships:
Gustavo Adolfo Llano, Master's student in Sustainability, Pontifical Bolivarian University. February-December 2023.
Jennifer Paola Estrella, intern in Social Communication-Journalism, Autonomous University of the West. January-December 2021.
Cesar Vargas, physician, Master's student in Epidemiology- University of Antioquia. October 2020-January 2021.
Juan Paulo Ruiz, Master's student in Public Health - University of Antioquia. November 2019-January 2020.
Kathleen Agudelo, intern in Social Communication-Journalism, Autonomous University of the West. July-December 2019.
Angie Vanesa Salgado, psychologist, Master's student in Psychosocial Intervention- Icesi University. May-October 2019.
Adrián Fernández, dentist, Master's student in Epidemiology, CES University. November 2018-February 2019.
Luisa Duque, Political Scientist, Master's student in Management for Social Innovation, Icesi University. June-December 2018.
International Student Internships:
Diana Quintero, business administrator, Master's student in international development at the Sanford School of Public Policy - Duke University. June-August 2022.
Priyanka Shrestha, Global Health Studies, TDR Trainee. July-December 2019.
Emmanuela Oppong, biomedical engineer, Watson Fellowship visiting scholar focused on social innovation in health. October-November 2019.
PUBLICATIONS
In our constant quest to promote Social Innovation in Health, we believe in the value and necessity of generating knowledge. We invite you to explore our collection of publications, where you will find analyses, research, and resources that inspire change and enrich growth.
- WHO Community Engagement Package: A Reinforcement of an Inclusive Approach to Global Public Health
- Social Appropriation of Knowledge and its contribution to the prevention of cutaneous leishmaniasis in rural communities.
Agudelo Paipilla K, Castro-Arroyave DM, Guzmán Grajales L, et al - A description of global innovative methods for the development of the WHO Community Engagement Package.
Bayugo YV, Labarda M, Cruz JRB, et al - Barriers to the care of cutaneous leishmaniasis in indigenous communities in rural areas of Colombia (qualitative study). Bautista-Gomez, M.M., Doerfler, J. & del Mar Castro, M.
- Documentary Research on Social Innovation for Health. Castro-Arroyave, D.M., Duque-Paz, L.F.
- Universities as catalysts for social innovation in health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a multi-country case study. van Niekerk, L., Mathanga, D.P., Juban, N. et al.
- Exploring Social Innovation in Health in Central America and the Caribbean. Mothe J, Vacaflor LE, Castro-Arroyave DM, Cuervo LG, Gore Saravia N.
- Social innovation in health: a critical yet overlooked component of the COVID-19 pandemic response. Moscibrodzki P, Li J, Peeling RW, et al
- Joint International Consensus Statement on Crowdsourcing Challenges in Health and Medicine: Results of a Modified Delphi Process.
Han L, Tang W, Ritchwood T, Day S, Wei S, Bao H, John R, Kpokiri E, Mathanga D, Awor P, Juban N, Castro-Arroyave D, Ambil V, Xiong Y, Oppong E, Tucker J. - Identification of criteria for social innovation in health. Duque-Paz LF, Castro-Arroyave D
- Social innovation in health: concept and practice.
Tucker JD, Manderson L, Amazigo U, et al - Crowdfunding for health research: a systematic review, qualitative evidence synthesis, and TDR pilot for LMIC researchers. Kpokiri, Eneyi Edith et al.
- Integrated vector control of Chagas disease in Guatemala: a case of social innovation in health. Castro-Arroyave, D., Monroy, M.C. & Irurita, M.I.
- Social Innovation in Health: Research, public policies, and resilience in the Zika Kids program in Colombia. Daza M, Bautista-Gomez MM, Zuluaga LS, et al
- A model of social innovation for equitable access to quality health services for rural populations: the case of Sumapaz locality (Bogotá, Colombia). Bautista-Gómez, M.M., van Niekerk, L.
- Building the social innovation ecosystem for health in Latin America: experiences and learnings from SIHI-LAC. van Niekerk L, Echavarria MI, Alger J
- Center for Scientific Research Development (CEDIC) - Paraguay.
- Professionalization Program for Indigenous Health Agents in the Upper Rio Negro region - Brazil.
- Comprehensive health approach for Chagas disease (Guatemala).
- Eco-health approach to combat Chagas disease (Guatemala).
- MosquitiaMed (Honduras).
- Mothers of the River (Peru): Access to health - Maternal and child health.
- Zika Kids (Colombia): Poverty-associated infectious diseases.
- Comprehensive care model for rural areas (Colombia): Access and quality in health care.
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SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE APPROPRIATION
We work on projects that transform social realities in health, through knowledge dialogue, intersectorality, active participation, and community empowerment.
Projects
This project was developed within the framework of the 2019 Call 850 of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia. Its objective was to empower leaders and strengthen the pedagogical skills of leaders from rural communities in Tumaco (Nariño), Rovira (Tolima), and Pueblo Rico (Risaralda), so that they could transmit knowledge about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cutaneous leishmaniasis to their communities, through various collectively constructed products.
This project was developed within the framework of Call No. 874 of 2019 of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia. The objective was to promote social innovation in health, based on the generation and appropriation of new knowledge and the promotion of empowerment of local communities, in order to contribute to improving access and inclusion to health in Latin America and the Caribbean. To this end, work was done with the mestizo, Afro-descendant, and indigenous communities of the municipality of Pueblo Rico (Risaralda), in order to implement a model of community surveillance, from the perspective of social innovation in health, to improve the detection of cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Educational manual for leaders and communities "Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis"
- Manual of Social Knowledge Appropriation
- Radionovela “Zumbidos en el Río”
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