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Ending HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Sector Responsibility
The private sector has an important role to play in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and improving health systems as a whole.
Corporate Philanthropy for Real-World Health Interventions
Corporate philanthropy can play a powerful role in addressing pervasive public health problems—a look at three effective practices from the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
A Checkup on PRIs
For one leading health funder, program-related investments promise to help underserved populations.
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Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
Lessons for Creating Better Global Health Programs
Efforts to bring promising health care interventions to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path.
Outsized Outcomes
With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.
Nature Meets Nurture: A New Approach to Childhood Mental Illness
By predicting vulnerability, biological science can help families, communities, clinicians, and policymakers develop more effective responses to a troubling health challenge.
The Early Childhood Challenge for Philanthropists
Investments that can dramatically improve kindergarten readiness for at-risk children.
Why Science Matters in International Aid
How the Belgian Red Cross is using scientific evidence to make its services more effective—and cost-effective.