Big Business and Healthcare: It’s Not About the Money
A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.
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Contagious Health
A community-based program in rural Kentucky uses face-to-face social networks to promote wellness.
The Fight Against Human Trafficking
Health care communites can help.
Judging Success in Translational Medical Research
Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.
Transforming Healthcare
Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 1
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
Second Life’s Second Life for Social Innovation
Researchers explore the effects of virtual embodiment among people with Parkinson’s disease.
Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries
The views of those who benefit from social programs offer insight into a program’s effectiveness.
Incentivizing Donor Registration
Does granting people priority for organ allocation affect their willingness to become organ donors?
When Cooking Can Kill
Traditional cookstoves are being recognized as a major health hazard.