Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, has increased its health workforce by more than 27% over the past three years by using data from open-source software tools provided by IntraHealth International and the World Health Organization.

The free, open-source iHRIS software has now given 16 countries powerful data-management capabilities that, if purchased from for-profit companies, would have cost over $100 million in combined licensing fees. Instead, government agencies in Africa, Latin America, and India now use the affordable iHRIS to store over 675,000 health worker records, allowing officials to track, manage, and plan for their health workforces.

IntraHealth's work with the Beat Making Lab was featured in the PRI article "What happens when you mix culture, talent, health and passion? Music".

IntraHealth's work with the Beat Making Lab was covered in "PBS’s ‘Beat Making Lab’ Goes To Ethiopia". This article appeared in Speakeasy, The Wall Street Journal's arts and entertainment blog.

In this new video produced by the Beat Making Lab in partnership with IntraHealth International and PBS Digital Studios, viewers can see the young aspiring musicians who gathered in June to learn how to make beats—and how to take charge of their own sexual health. The video is the first in a series of six.

IntraHealth International is pleased to announce VITAL, its newly redesigned blog dedicated to global health, health care, and the health workers who make it all happen: http://www.intrahealth.org/vital.

Kate Tulenko, senior director of health systems innovation, and director of the IntraHealth-led CapacityPlus Project, co-authored Health Workforce Brain Drain: From Denouncing the Challenge to Solving the Problem in the journal PLOS Medicine.

IntraHealth's work was discussed in "Years of Investments Finally Put Health Workers on the Global Stage", a post by David Olson in The Huffington Post's Social Entrepreneurship Blog.