Innovations in Global Health
Venkatesh Mannar, 2010 Tech Award winner in Health, discusses the large-scale social impact double fortified salt has brought to improving health and nutrition.
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Innovations in health care policies and programs (more)
Richard Jefferson
Richard Jefferson believes that biotechnology can be used to benefit the poor and disenfranchised, but only if the R&D process is democratized.
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When Good Is Just Not Good Enough
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore
An Unusual Merger
A housing and health care charity for the elderly makes British history when it acquires a for-profit care company.
Universal HIV/AIDS Treatment in One of the World’s Poorest Countries
While public-private partnerships have remained elusive to many, Cambodia, one of the least developed countries in the world, has been quietly using the strategy to provide universal HIV/AIDS treatment.
The Private Sector’s Role in Improving Global Health
Global health is one of the last frontiers for technical innovation. Companies can have an incredible impact by lending technical know-how to solve intricate global health challenges.
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Applying Design Thinking to Healthcare
CEO Joel Sadler about the company’s initial product,an artificial knee joint that is dramatically changing the lives of amputees in developing countries
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Employment Power
How a private-public-academic partnership is helping people with serious mental illnesses find and keep jobs.
Can’t Buy Me Laughter
While more money may translate to a higher valuation of oneself, but when it comes to happiness, money is no indicator.