Table 1 Sample of recent and ongoing research projects in Eastern Myanmar and the Border region involving ethnic health organisations and community-based organisations

Reproductive health assessment in the eastern border region of Burma

World Refugee Council, Community Partners International, Burma Medical Association, Back Pack Health Workers Team, Karen Department of Health and Welfare, Mae Tao Clinic

MacArthur Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Explored issues around access to sexual and reproductive health services, including cost, decision-making, pregnancy services and place of delivery, family planning, supply chain, and impact of security threats on access to sexual and reproductive health

Health and human rights in Eastern

Myanmar after the political transition:

a population-based assessment using

multistaged household cluster sampling

Harvard Medical School, Community Partners International, University of Washington, Burma Medical Association, Health Information Systems Working Group, Back Pack Health Worker Team, Mae Tao Clinic, Karen

Department of Health and Welfare, Karenni Mobile Health Committee, Mon National Health Committee, Harvard School of Public Health, University of California

Burma Relief Centre

Household surveys in eastern Myanmar from July 2013–September 2013 exploring demographics, mortality, health outcomes, water and sanitation, food security and nutrition, malaria, and human rights violations

Human resources for health: task shifting to promote basic health service delivery among internally displaced

people in ethnic health programme service areas in eastern

Burma/Myanmar

Community Partners International Burma Medical Association, Health Information System Working Group, Back Pack Health Worker Team, Mae Tao Clinic, Karen Department of Health and Welfare, Department of Global Health and Development

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Canada), Burma Relief Center, United Kingdom Department for International Development through Christian Aid, United States Agency of International Development through the International Rescue Committee

Exploration of the effective healthcare service delivery by ethnic health organisations and community-based organisations through standardised training and task shifting in the context of a shortage of formally trained skilled medical professionals

Impact of community-based maternal health workers on coverage of essential maternal health interventions among internally displaced communities in Eastern

Burma: The MOM Project

Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Bloomberg School of Public Health, UCLA School of Medicine, Global Health Access Program, Burma Medical Association, Karen Department of Health and Welfare, Mae Tao Clinic

Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Foundation for the People of Burma. Additional funds for the final survey were provided by a gift to the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins

Outcome evaluation of MOM project (frequency of antenatal care, postnatal care, contraceptive use, unmet need for contraception, skilled birth attendants, etc.)

Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern

Burma: perspectives from lay maternal health workers

Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Global Health Access Program Berkeley, Burma Medical Association

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Community-based workers’ perspective on rights-based approach to service delivery in a conflict setting in the context of widespread human rights violations

Health and human rights in Karen State,

Eastern Myanmar

Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Bloomberg School of Public Health,

Karen Department of Health and Welfare, Division of

General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles

Community Partners International, Physicians for Human Rights, University of Minnesota Medical School, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley

Open Society

Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Oak Foundation

Cluster survey of households in eastern Myanmar assessing health status, access to healthcare, food security, exposure to human rights violations and identification of alleged perpetrators over the 12 months prior to January 2012