CAPABILITIES

HEADA’s Capabilities and Expertise

🌍 Driving Innovation in Health & Development Since 1992

For over 30 years, HEADA’s experts have led groundbreaking research, policy development, and humanitarian initiatives across Central Africa and West Africa. Through collaborations with local and international partners, we tackle critical health and development challenges with innovative and scalable solutions.

Our Core Capabilities

 Implementation Science

✅ Identifying and addressing service-delivery challenges
✅ Strengthening zoonotic disease surveillance, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS programs, and outbreak response

Policy Research and Analysis

✅ Providing evidence-based data for national health and development policies

Research Utilization

✅ Helping decision-makers use data-driven insights to shape impactful policies and programs

Demographic and Socioeconomic Analysis

✅ Examining the link between population dynamics and development

Impact Evaluation

✅ Assessing the effectiveness of health interventions and policies

Biomedical Research and Clinical Trials

✅ Studying infectious diseases (Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis, hemorrhagic fevers, etc.)
✅ Partnering in clinical trials for promising medical solutions

Humanitarian Action and Relief Services

✅ Providing aid to underserved populations through HEADA Relief Services
✅ Mobilizing volunteer medical experts (HEADA-Doctors of Communities – Heada_MdC)

Product Introduction and Technology for Health

✅ Ensuring new health technologies reach the most vulnerable communities
✅ Promoting eHealth to enhance healthcare access

Key Areas of Action

✔️ HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care (targeting key & priority populations: uniformed personnel, truck drivers, sex workers’ clients, adolescent girls, drug users, prisoners, refugees, etc.)
✔️ Maternal, Child & Reproductive Health
✔️ Health System Consulting & Clinical Research Studies
✔️ Global Health Security (supporting International Health Regulations)
✔️ Capacity Strengthening & Workforce Development
✔️ Community Empowerment & Environmental Sustainability
✔️ Quality Education Initiatives (rural & urban settings)
✔️ Public Health Research & Socioeconomic Impact Studies
✔️ Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
✔️ Communication Strategies for Health & Development
✔️ Support for Orphans, Vulnerable Children, & Marginalized Groups