The START Center Global Program was launched in 2011 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Initially, the Program was designed to support research and analysis for program teams at the Gates Foundation. Since that time, The START Center Global Program has expanded and now provides high-quality research and analytic support for a number of additional clients.
3/8/2016
The START team worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's family planning team to outline an overview (best practices, lessons learned, way forward) of past and present programs that have used mobile platforms as a way to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes.
7/1/2016
The START team conducted a comprehensive review of growth and development patterns among vulnerable children, including those living in conflict affected areas, displaced children, and children in orphanages.
3/9/2016
A landscape analysis of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic literature to investigate the use of levenorgestrel (LNG) and UPA (ulipristal acetate) for on demand contraception, a product taken by women pre- peri- or post-coitally potentially multiple times a month in order to prevent pregnancy.