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Review
Micro-franchise Against Malaria
How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya.
Podcast
Fazle H. Abed - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Fazle Abed explains in this audio lecture how the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) is leading grassroots efforts to achieve the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh. He describes a multipronged strategy aimed at education, gender equality, health, environmental, economic, and political progress.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Health Partnerships
Step aside, Stephen Covey. Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer have discovered seven new highly effective habits. And theirs may help rid the world of its more deadly diseases, rather than just upping people's productivity.
Your Brain on Drug Addicts
Recent neuroscience research confirms that people - and the brains they contain - view drug addicts as not quite human.
15 Minutes with Victoria Hale
MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.
Cultivating Cross-Sector Partnerships
An HIV organization in Botswana provides lessons in cooperation.
Podcast
Oliver Foot - The Next Generation of Global Health Workers
In 1982, ophthalmologist Oliver Foot founded Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, a unique mobile teaching facility housed in a DC-10 jet aircraft. In this audio interview With Globeshakers host Tim Zak, he discusses how his organization brings dedicated eye care professionals to the developing world to restore eyesight through surgery and other treatments.
Podcast
Kent Thiry - From Demoralization to Living Community
DaVita is the largest independent provider in the United States of dialysis services to people with chronic kidney failure. In 2000, DaVita was being investigated by the SEC and sued by shareholders. In this audio lecture recorded at Bridging the Gap, the Stanford 2005 Net Impact conference, Kent Thiry explains how building community and shared values bumped DaVita's market capitalization to $3 billion and turned it into a leader in its field.