Looking ahead, it’s hard not to reflect on 2022. What a year! Top 5 highlights: Our first in-person retreat in over two years at the margins of the International AIDS Society meeting in Montreal. 2. In December, working with the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents…

On December 8th, 2020, the United Kingdom became the first country to launch a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Through April 2021, over 1.25 billion vaccine doses were administered worldwide. Of those, 40% have been given in the United States or Europe. …

Kuunika: Data For Action featured by the OpenHIE Initiative When data systems don’t work together, critical health decisions are delayed, or never made at all. In Malawi, Cooper/Smith through the Kuunika: Data for Action project, used OpenHIE architecture to facilitate data exchange between OpenLMIS, DHIS2 and other health and logistics data systems, paving the way for smarter, data-driven decisions for health.

Originally published on coopersmith.org, October 14, 2016 We’re gearing up to launch the Kuunika: Data for Action project in Malawi. To date, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of Malawi’s finest across government, private, and not-for-profit sectors. As we work on the project’s implementation plan, a gap in…

Originally published on coopersmith.org, June 17, 2016 The last few months have been exciting for us! We recently received four years of funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support a project in Malawi called Kuunika: Data for Action. (“Kuunika” means to bring the light in the local…

As COVID-19 wears on, more data emerges about the pandemic response. Cooper/Smith’s mission is to make this data accessible to policymakers and people working in health systems, so they can use it to make better decisions. Today, policymakers face pressing questions about how to allocate foreign aid for COVID-19. Is…

This presentation was given by Tyler Smith, Cooper/Smith Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder, and was part of a satellite presentation given at the HIVR4P Virtual Conference (January 27–29, 2021) on the Blantyre Prevention Strategy, hosted by Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Blantyre Prevention strategy is run by the Government of Malawi through a consortium of partners.

Our co-founders shared a vision for an organization that would do development differently. Learn how. Hard to believe it’s been five years since our co-founders Hannah Cooper Klein and Tyler Smith shared a vision for an organization that would do development differently and started Cooper/Smith. Today, with the support of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, UNICEF, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations Foundation and Georgetown University, their vision has taken hold in Malawi, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Rwanda, Thailand, Indonesia and more. Our team is driving change throughout the world with hard data, innovative analysis, and country-led collaboration.