Evidence Action

Clean hands, healthier classrooms. A teacher in Haryana is making handwashing a daily habit through NDD and IFA sessions, helping children stay healthy and focused. Small actions. Big impact. #WorldHandHygieneDay #EvidenceAction evidenceaction.org

After nine years leading @EvidenceAction, CEO Kanika Bahl is stepping down — leaving behind an organization that has reached 530M+ people by owning the full problem, from evidence to delivery at scale. Read her farewell letter🔗 evidenceaction.org/newsroom/a-let…

Big news: Danielle Bayer has been our next CEO. She succeeds Kanika Bahl after nine years of transformational leadership reaching 530M+ people across 11 countries. 🔗evidenceaction.org/newsroom/evide…

Delays in care-seeking are a major driver of preventable harm in LMICs - AI-powered D2C triage chatbots are one potential response to that gap. Read 2AI’s (incubated at Evidence Action) deep dive on evidence, uncertainties, and philanthropy role: tr.ee/EI3GKr

This World Health Day, standing with science means delivering research-backed solutions at scale through lasting systems. That's Evidence Action. 🧵 #WorldHealthDay #GlobalHealth More on our programs: tr.ee/IH1Awg

826M people lack reading glasses — spectacles costing <$1 that can transform productivity. New research co-authored by CEO Kanika Bahl in #CEHJournal explores distribution. Piloting 25K in Uganda. 📖 tr.ee/00YoHJ #GlobalHealth #ReadingGlasses

Meet Krishnaveni, ASHA worker in Andhra Pradesh: visiting homes, leading meetings, teaching kids. Safe water needs community trust. This #WorldWaterDay, her story. 💧 #JalMahotsav2026 #HarGharJal #SafeDrinkingWater Read her story: tr.ee/A2FofN

61M+ deworming treatments in Kenya since 2014 at under $0.50 per child. Our team met with Amb. Prof @JuliusKBitok to boost National School Deworming Programme. #DewormTheWorld #Kenya #EducattionInKenya @MOH_Kenya @EduMinKenya Learn more: tr.ee/bjPz2F

Honored to receive Kenya's Best Nonprofit for Evidence-Based Social Impact award at the #KENTAD Kenya ESG Awards. Evidence works. Partnership scales it. Read more on our work in Kenya 🔗 tr.ee/ljWStJ #EvidenceAction #Kenya

Women carry the weight of the water crisis. On this #InternationalWomensDay, learn how women like Bhavani, Dorothy, and Agatha are carrying the solution. #IWD2026 #WomensDay bit.ly/3OOHOM5

Following the evidence means seeking it & acting on it — even when hard. We sought an independent evaluation that found ~70% fewer people benefiting from our dispensers in Uganda & Malawi than indicated. Why we're scaling back & reallocating resources: bit.ly/UGMWdispensers

Read more on our partnership with SPM NIWAS: tr.ee/u4gmKy

150M rural Indian households have tap water. Now we're ensuring it's safe to drink. New partnership with SPM NIWAS strengthens chlorination across India's piped water systems. 🔗 See full details on the partnership via link in comments ⬇️

Safe water means more than connections – it means water that's safe at the point of consumption. We're committed to working alongside @spm_niwas to make that a reality for rural communities in India. #WASH #SafeWater #Chlorination #Water

Prevention saves lives. $0.84 dual HIV/syphilis test $0.50 treatment 1,000 lives saved in Liberia (8% → 88% screening in 4 years) This is what accessible prevention looks like. Read more: ow.ly/bfzj50Y8pTK

World NTD Day: After remarkable progress, NTD funding has fallen 41% — just as elimination is within reach. Programs reaching millions of children cost <$0.50/child and return $169 per $1. We need partners to help finish the fight: evidenceaction.org/world-ntd-day-… #WorldNTDDay

From 600,000 children in one state to 6 million across five — Nigeria shows what's possible when you scale what works. In Cross River State, schistosomiasis prevalence dropped 77%. #WorldNTDDay #Nigeria #NigeriaNTD evidenceaction.org/world-ntd-day-…

'If we know about this disease, we can prevent it. If we talk about it, we can treat it.' In Malawi, we're partnering with government to fight schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted worms — 1.4 million treatments and counting. #WorldNTDDay #Malawi evidenceaction.org/world-ntd-day-…

11 years. 61 million treatments. Under $0.50 per child. In Kenya, sustainable partnerships are delivering results — and bringing elimination within reach. #WorldNTDDay #Kenya #KenyaNTD #KenyaHealth evidenceaction.org/world-ntd-day-…

Learn why school-based health is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve educational outcomes: evidenceaction.org/insights/a-hid…

Schools aren't just where children learn — they're where we can reach them with health interventions that help them stay in class. On International Day for Education, we're celebrating the connection between health and learning in Africa.