The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator describes the journeys of ten innovators who discovered problems that they couldn't ignore.
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Health - Articles
Innovations in health care policies and programs (more)
Meeting the Challenges of Global Health
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
Guiding Health Innovation
Supplement to the article “Meeting the Challenges of Global Health.”
Women at the Wheel
In Mozambique, an effort to train women as ambulance drivers enhances public safety and fosters opportunity.
Bridging the Gaps in Public Infrastructure
Communities in emerging economies must work collectively to extend public services until they can build out formal infrastructures.
Making a Healthy Exit
In places like rural Guatemala, the quest to sustain a vital social enterprise often depends on finding the right private-sector partner.
Evaluating High-tech Health Approaches in Low-income Countries
Promising technologies for maternal and child health, TB, and malaria abound, but we need to determine what really works.
People, Planet, Profit ... Religion?
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
Taking Pay for Success Financing to the South
An analysis of the viability of pay-for-success initiatives in South Carolina shows that this new type of financing can work in more rural, "red” states.
Interrupting the Transmission of Violence
Cure Violence Founder Dr. Gary Slutkin talks about the health approach to reducing violence.