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OUR WORK

 

Disseminate evidence

Current healthcare systems often fail to meet the needs of people with disabilities. There is a significant gap in awareness about these shortcomings and their impact on global health goals. Additionally, there is limited understanding of the high-impact solutions available to address these systemic failures.

The Missing Billion Initiative (MBI) seeks to bridge this gap by building a clear, evidence-based understanding of the challenges, their implications, and the existing proven strategies that can drive meaningful change.​

 
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We develop and translate evidence

Thematic reports

 

Focus on Women’s Health

Although women’s health is now an established health field with significant funding, it does not consider the intersection with disabilities. Women with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to not receiving quality care, which is why we are currently focusing on this topic.

  • Upcoming report on the health of women with disabilities (publication in first half of 2025) will aim to:

    • Synthesize the specific and additional healthcare needs of women with disabilities

    • Raise awareness of the gaps that exist in terms of health access and outcomes to mobilize key stakeholders to take action

    • Highlight the voices of women’s and women-led OPD through storytelling

    • Activate players in the gender equity movement to incorporate disability into their agendas

  • Analysis of a cervical cancer care pathways for women with disabilities

  • Infographic on the health of women with disabilities

Good practice compendium

Around the world, many stakeholders already work on building disability-inclusive health systems. To learn from each others work, and to inspire others to act, we collect and share examples of good practices in inclusive health.

Access the good practice compendium

Academic publications

Our team regularly publishes articles and studies in academic journals.

Browse articles authored or co-authored by our team

Data dashboard

For the Missing Billion report #2, we created an interactive dashboard to make our analysis widely available.

The dashboard includes data on mortality for people with disabilities, and key health indicators of Childhood Illness, Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV, Malaria, and more.

Explore the data dashboard

 

 We advocate through evidence

Co-host and attend events

To deliver the evidence we develop, we bring the topic of disability at key global conferences and events. Some events we’ve hosted in the past:

 

Empower disability champions to attend events

Together with partners, we facilitate the participation of leaders with disabilities to share their stories and expertise on inclusive health at global events.

Reach out to us if you are a disability advocate or social impact leader working in health, and you would like to work together on advocacy.

Disseminate knowledge

We also use digital channels to amplify the reach of our evidence (social media, our newsletter, our blog…)

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