Collaboration involves the sharing of specific campaign components between vertical health programs and can be thought of as collaborative delivery or partial integration. Collaboration aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness of multiple campaigns without co-delivery of interventions at the point of service delivery.
In a Technical Brief for the Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition (HCE) at the Task Force for Global Health (TFGH), HCE defines collaboration as “involv[ing] the sharing of specific campaign components between vertical health programs and can be thought of as collaborative delivery or partial integration.” Additionally, collaboration “aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness of multiple campaigns without co-delivery of interventions at the point of service delivery.”This brief had two major contributors: Barkha Bhatnagar and David Gittelman. Bhatnagar is a Health Systems Research Associate at the TFGH, as well as a DrPH Candidate at Boston University School of Public Health. Gittelman (MPH) is a technical advisor for both HCE at the TFGH and for the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP). The technical brief itself offers a series of “evidence-based practices and opportunities” for countries and partner organizations to improve or integrate health campaigns and outcomes. The brief performs a literature review on co-delivery and collaboration between health programs from 2002-2020 in order to discover these practices and opportunities, as well as the primary potential reasons for integration.
Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition. “Integration Between Health Campaigns: Intervention Co-Delivery and Collaboration.” Decatur, GA: Task Force for Global Health, 2020. https://campaigneffectiveness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Health-Campaign-Integration_Technical-Brief_14AUG2020-1.pdf.